Posted on 09/07/2013 8:36:15 AM PDT by fone
NEW ORLEANS — A former FBI director recommended Friday that the Justice Department investigate whether several lawyers plotted to corrupt the settlement program designed to compensate victims of BP’s 2010 Gulf oil spill.
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However, Freeh concluded that then-top members of Juneau’s staff engaged in conduct that was improper, unethical and possibly criminal. He recommended that his report be forwarded to the Justice Department.
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BP spokesman Geoff Morrell said the report “confirms what BP has suspected for some time: there has been fraud and unethical conduct within the facility itself and among various claimants and their lawyers —and immediate steps need to be taken to prevent it in the future.”
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Yet, while the lawyers and hucksters have found their pay dirt, I'm sure thousands of deserving individuals and small companies are still sniffing around their mailboxes waiting for their due compensation.
What really slays me though is this Clinton crony Louie (can you spell c-o-v-e-r u-p) Freeh is never without a job.
I think freeh is actually on the right side of this one, but the fact remains that with every “investigation” he does, we get the same quotes:
“It appears to me that Mr. Freeh reached a conclusion first and then worked his way backwards, citing facts which are unsupported in the record,” Cobb said.”
His “reports” simply confirm what his clients want them to confirm. In other words, he’s a liar for hire.
I am still hearing regular radio ads from the local law firms about getting on board for the BP ‘free’ money. “Even if you, the business owner, don’t think you were affected, let our experts see if you were.”
What do you call a hundred lawyers? A legislature!
‘No surprise here that with billions of dollars up for grabs fraud would naturally abound.’
Is Saul Goodman one of the attorneys involved?
The man who tracked down Richard Jewell.
I am still at a loss of who the people were that were harmed by the BP oil spill. If I remember correctly very little oil actually came ashore and the vast majority of the oil was eaten up by microbes out at sea. I am sure there are some but no where near the amount of people who signed up for the free money. I see fraud at all levels in this thing from Obama on down.
The program was corrupt from its inception. The main point of the liability settlement was to limit BP’s losses. The secondary point was to make sure that discovery in court could not happen, and thus we would never know the full truth about the damage that BP did.
That millions of people on the Gulf Coast would not get compensation from BP for the damage done to their property and livelihoods was not a factor in the decision-making process. And that’s to say nothing of the damage to the United States as a whole. Would anyone here eat Gulf seafood? I wouldn’t.
I’m guessing everybody here who eats seafood is eating some gulf seafood. Unless you are working very hard to make sure nothing you buy from the grocery has anything in it that was harvested from the gulf.
I’d certainly have no trouble with gulf seafood. Of course, crazy me, I’d eat California seafood even though it has been irradiated by Fukishima.
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Any time lawyers and big money are involved, there will be corruption.
Mr MaGoo could have found FRAUD in this without even LOOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luois Freeh was to Klintoon what Holder is to OBOZO!!!!!!!!!!
is Freech just trying to make up for letting the Clintons go?......I mean after his debacle as FBI director, and his non investigation of Clintoon, who the hell cares what he thinks....he has shown his true colors...
I eat no seafood at all anymore. Used to like sushi, but after it came out that your odds of getting genuine tuna at a sushi shop are less than one in four, and that you are more likely to get escolar instead (which causes “oily anal leakage” - yuk!), that ended that habit.
I’ve been growing some of my own food, turns out this city boy has a remarkably green thumb. When I shop for food I do so almost exclusively at Trader Joe’s, which means I consume no GMOs, and few synthetic or artificial additives of any kind. It’s probably not a coincidence that I am far healthier than almost anyone else of my age - no chronic conditions whatsoever, haven’t needed a doctor in decades. Being a very infrequent consumer of alcohol probably helps too.
His “reports” simply confirm what his clients want them to confirm. In other words, he’s a liar for hire.
Using this method, he could also "overlook" individuals that he would choose not to expose...
My "cover up" comment was meant to address his "work" in the 90's, but then again ...
There are only 3 lawyer jokes. The rest are all true.
IMHO Most of the small fish (no pun intended) that were greatly harmed by the spill were two groups: First, the fishermen who were forbidden to work out in the gulf that summer, even in areas that were unaffected by the oil spill.
Second were the mom + pop businesses on the gulf coast that thrive on tourism (small hotels, restaurants and the like), again, not necessarily because of the oil itself, but because of the media frenzy that in effect quarantined the entire region with their 24/7 apocalyptic "reporting."
Both groups work on a small profit margin, one disastrous season could put them under for good.
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