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BP hikes claims czar's monthly fee to $1.25M
Associated Press ^ | 3/25/11 | Harry R. Weber

Posted on 03/25/2011 4:11:32 PM PDT by Nachum

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Documents provided by the administrator of BP's claims fund for Gulf oil spill victims show the oil giant agreed to increase his law firm's monthly compensation from $850,000 to $1.25 million. The documents furnished Friday to The Associated Press include a letter from former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey to claims czar Kenneth Feinberg. Mukasey stated his belief that the extra money was warranted because Feinberg's duties had grown. Mukasey was asked by Feinberg to weigh in on how reasonable his compensation was. The pay hike, detailed in a Tuesday letter from Mukasey to

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; claims; czars; drill; gulf; hikes; kennethfeinberg; michaelmukasey; oil
Nice work, if you can get it
1 posted on 03/25/2011 4:11:37 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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2 posted on 03/25/2011 4:12:32 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Commie libs are cleaning up on their theft of Big Oil money. That spill is going to make a lot of old hippies very rich.


3 posted on 03/25/2011 4:15:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The problem with America is that not many Americans live here anymore.)
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To: Nachum

Son of a bitch. I knew it the second I first heard him, the smoothie. He’s a crook.


4 posted on 03/25/2011 4:18:12 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Where’s Issa and the spineless Boehner on this?


5 posted on 03/25/2011 4:19:30 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Nachum

gubmint extortion and racketeering


6 posted on 03/25/2011 4:21:15 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: Nachum

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535886/posts

Jamie Gorelick represents BP at Obama meeting! Whaat?

Politico.com ( yeah, I know) ^ | 6-16-10 | Carol Lee and Glenn Thrush


7 posted on 03/25/2011 4:39:49 PM PDT by maggief
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Cowering and wetting their pants. There are few real men in DC.

LLS


8 posted on 03/25/2011 5:22:31 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

IMO, the US Congress is filled with spineless, gutless eunuchs. Several of the ones recently elected will be going home in 2012 because they too suffer from a lack of guts.


9 posted on 03/25/2011 6:03:55 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Nachum

Anyone think Feinberg has any incentive to resolve any claims?


10 posted on 03/25/2011 6:10:10 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Nachum
Just discusting. sickening

Government Orders Findings in Dolphin Death Probe Confidential is also disturbing.

11 posted on 03/25/2011 6:13:20 PM PDT by sweet_diane (Adoption, the beautiful choice!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I agree 100,000,000%!

LLS


12 posted on 03/26/2011 3:42:00 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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