BP claims czar Kenneth Feinberg drawing fire from Attorney General Bill McCollum

TampaBay.com ^ | 7/6/2010 | Marc Caputo

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With the authority to dole out $20 billion to BP oil spill victims, Kenneth Feinberg has yet to provide exact details about who gets money and who doesn't.

But the few specifics Feinberg has mentioned are drawing fire from Florida's attorney general, Bill McCollum, a Republican running for governor.

McCollum said he was concerned that Feinberg was using an overly strict interpretation of Florida law that he could use to deny claims.

Feinberg, however, said he's not trying to restrict payouts.

"I am not adversarial to anyone in Florida," Feinberg said. "I want Floridians to get what is due them. I am working at their side to help them. And this money is going to be distributed for them."

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Feinberg said he's trying to "bend over backward to help eligible claimants in Florida and throughout the Gulf."

The key word: eligible.

Feinberg said he'll come up with "an expansive'' definition in the coming weeks. But when he appeared before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business last week, Feinberg said he would use "Florida law'' as one measure of eligibility.

When asked about whether Florida businesses could make a claim based on "the public misperception of tarballs on beaches," Feinberg testified that it was a "tough'' issue.

"Clearly, under Florida law, I think it's fair to say that it's not compensable. If there's no physical damage to the beaches and it's a public perception, I venture to say that it is not compensable," Feinberg said, noting "that's in this area where some discretion's going to have to be exercised."

Those are fighting words for McCollum.

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Feinbergian weasel words...........

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With the authority to dole out $20 billion to BP oil spill victims, Kenneth Feinberg has yet to provide exact details about who gets money and who doesn't.

Fer cryin' out loud, give the guy a break!!! He has to convene an exploratory commission to define what constitutes a "claim", and then have Senate hearings to discriminate legitimate claims from . . . . . er . . . ah, not legitimate claims. Once that is done, he has to have a close advisor to the president take him aside and explian why his approach is all wrong so that he will have to start over.

Sheesh!!! What do these people want - MIRACLES!!????



(/sarc) If they left this to a private company, claims would already be getting processed and paid. The "czar" won't begin making any payments before zero has siphoned off most of the money and most of us have forgotten what it was for.

[Liz]

With $20 billion to dole out to BP oil spill victims, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has yet to provide exact details about who gets money and who doesn't. Feinberg has to convene an exploratory commission to define what constitutes a "claim", and then have Senate hearings to discriminate legitimate claims from . . . . . er . . . ah, not legitimate claims. Once that is done, he has to have a close advisor to the president take him aside and explain why his approach is all wrong so that he will have to start over. The "czar" won't begin making any payments before zero has siphoned off most of the money and most of us have forgotten what it was for.

You got that right----plus the admin has to weed out the Democrats from those nasty Republicans. As one wit said, the $20B is the largest Democrat campaign contribution ever.

THIS JUST IN Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP;No Indication Of When Payments Resume (Republicans get nuttin)
http://www.wdsu.com/news/24178322/detail.html

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Hundreds of fishermen from Lake Charles to Moss Point, Miss., were supposed to get checks from BP on Wednesday but didn't. Wednesday night, their lawyer wanted answers. Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days.

THE GOVERNMENT STEPS IN TO "HELP" Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said. "Not only did they spring it on us that the process has changed, but the people I've been dealing with for six weeks who've done a good job said, 'We don't know what the process is going to be. We're not authorized to talk to you about it. Someone from BP will contact you,'" he said.

But Briet said he hasn't heard from BP or its lawyers. He said the claims people have been given so much conflicting information about the process that they can't provide answers. "They couldn't tell me," he said. "And I said, 'I've got 500 people I'm meeting on Saturday. They want to know what the process is.'"

[Liz]

“Still, up in the air, Feinberg said, is whether his office will administer the $100 million, or whether it will be left to a "charitable foundation."

(/Snix)....who saw that coming? The FR poster who described BP's $20B as "the largest campaign contribution in history." That's who.

JUST WONDERING How did the admin arrive at $20 billion without the benefit of a full investigation of the causes and without a final solution for the problem? How come the $20B agreement between Ohaha and BP was not published?

WH Meeting with BP executives in the Roosevelt Room; taken and released June 16.
(L-R): BP CEO Tony Hayward, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP General Counsel
Rupert Bondy, BP Managing Director Robert Dudley, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett,
Labor Secy Hilda Solis, Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden, Obama and Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano. Rahm Emanuel also attended.

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The buzz is Joe Biden was tapped as the point man----and told BP---"you give us $20B or we'll take it from you." Biden is the person to watch like a hawk w/ $20B campaign funds floating around.

Keep in mind Ohaha put Biden in charge of the $2 trillion stimulus pkg and that millions in stimulus are being hidden in the states for endangered Dems (unused portions then wire-transferred offshore to numbered accounts?) Read on.

Offshore fraudster had links to fund run by relatives of Biden
Reuters on Yahoo.com | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
EXCERPT --- A fund of hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.

The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said.

Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.

Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the paper. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. He told the paper the Bidens never met or communicated with Stanford.

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QUESTION While we’re on the subject of slush funds, where did all of Ohaha's so-called ‘Stimulus’ money go?............

ANSWER Most of the stim is still in Washington---controlled by Biden and Ohaha. Some of it is hidden in the states with endangered Dems---ballyhooed under the guise of "creating jobs."

CASE IN POINT In the state of NJ, investigative news reports say Ohaha sent $14.5B stim that just disappeared......as incumbent Dem gov (ex-Goldman Sachs head) was trying for reelection. The Dim lost even after Biden/Ohaha came into the state several times and Ohaha ads ran relentlessly on pricey NY media.

Mother Jones mag reported the real amt of the bailouts was $14 trillion --- the $750 TARP was just a diversion. GANGSTER GOVERNMENT MIGHT SCAM TRILLIONS USING THE MADOFF MO: Madoff created a labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in miltiple places overseas that hid thievery, money launderering and tax evasion.

Add government fraud to the Ohaha list of crimes.

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Unfortunately for those people, this was predictable. More’s the pity.

While I’m getting fed up with the DBM’s coverage of this (because they make it sound like BP did it on purpose), I do feel for the people affected by zero’s lack of action to contain and control the damage from the beginning. That’s why we are 80+ days into this and zero and his minions are still learning how to spell “BP”. Meanwhile, more and more of the Gulf gets contaminated with the product of the oil rig explosion.

This is disgusting. Zero should be impeached for simply being a moron.

[Liz]

Zero should be impeached for simply being a moron.

Yeah, but look at it this way....with BP's $20B, Ohaha can now have that sex change operation he's always wanted.

"Well, I said I was going to change things, didn't I?"

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ROFLMAO!!!!