Ken Feinberg

Gulf Activists Stage Protest as BP's Cleanup Slows

Susan Buchanan | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Ken Feinberg, U.S. Congress, New Orleans Police Dept., Oil Pollution Act, Human Health, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Oil Companies, Offshore Drilling, Boemre, Gulf Restoration Network, Fishermen, Green News
Susan Buchanan

BP's gushing well was capped in mid-July of last year but that was hardly the end of the spill saga for Gulf Coast residents.

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Michael McAuliff

Eric Holder Names Class Action Lawyer To Run 9/11 Fund

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: September 11, Sept. 11 Victims? Compensation Fund, Sept. 11, September 11 Attacks, Sheila-Birnbaum, Ken Feinberg, September 11th, Politics News

This story has been updated to include an interview with John Feal. WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder named a veteran New York lawyer to h...

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BP Hikes Claim Czar's Monthly Pay To $1.25 Million

AP | By HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claims Czar Salary, Gulf Oil Spill Claims, Bp Claims, Ken Feinberg Salary, Ken Feinberg Bp, BP Ken Feinberg, Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Feinberg, Ken Feinberg Pay, Green News

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 ...

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Grand Isle Businesses Battered by BP Oil Disaster

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Disaster, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Louisiana, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp, BP Business, Louisiana Business, Ken Feinberg, Green News
Rocky Kistner

2011-02-05-rockykistner.jpgFor over 30 years, the Rigauds owned one of the most popular eateries on Grand Isle, LA.

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Judge: Spill Claims Czar Not Independent Of BP

AP | HARRY R. WEBER and BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Feinberg, Bp, Ken Feinberg Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Spill Claims, Carl Barbier, Oil Pollution Act, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, BP PLC, Gulf Coast Claims, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — The administrator of the $20 billion compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims is not independent from BP and must stop telling...

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Fishermen Dismayed Over Low Payouts in Spill Claims

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seedco Financial, Bp, Ken Feinberg, US Dept. Of Justice, Oil, Florida Realtors, Vessels of Opportunity, Charter Boats, Motley Rice, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Seafood, Gcg, Green News
Susan Buchanan

For fishermen counting on checks for losses they sustained from the BP spill, the mail can bring the denial of a claim or a much slimmer payout than anticipated.

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Oil Spill Lawyers Want Claims Czar Reined In

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Spill, Ken Feinberg Bp, Oil Spill Lawyers, Ken Feinberg, Oil Spill Claims, Oil Spill Claims Czar, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — Lead attorneys for people and businesses suing over the Gulf oil spill want a federal judge overseeing their cases to rein in the ...

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Oil Spill Claimants Offered Quick Pay Option With A Catch

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — The administrator of a $20 billion fund doling out money to Gulf oil spill victims said Monday that people who want more ...

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Happy Holidays From BP, the Gift That Keeps on Giving

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast Restoration Network, Ceq, Nalco, James Carville, National Oil Commission, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Toxic Chemicals, Gulf Seafood, Unemployment, Disaster Relief, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Environment, BP Oil Spill, Corexit, Ken Feinberg, Environment America, Green News
Jerry Cope

Under gray overcast skies eight months after the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, waves of crude oil roll into estuaries, bayous, and onto the desert...

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Fishermen Cling To Livelihoods During Spill Recovery

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, US Dept. Of Commerce, Gno, Ken Feinberg, Chevron, Bp, Senator Mary Landrieu, Shrimp, Inc., Oysters, Crabs, Gulf Oil Spill, Seedco, Business News
Susan Buchanan

Louisiana's commercial fishermen are "disaster veterans," trying to hang on, while the local seafood industry struggles to recuperate from BP's oil sp...

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Abandoned By The Media, The Fisherman Of The Gulf Coast Struggle Along

Rocky Kistner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Fishing, Louisiana, BP Oil Spill, Ken Feinberg, Columbus Day, Gulf Oil Spill, Green News
Rocky Kistner

The media has gone AWOL. Last week at a meeting in Buras, LA, fishermen gathered to talk about ways to show the public the oil is not gone. They felt abandoned and desperate.

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Extreme Turbine Power Boats to Help Clean Up the Gulf

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thunder on the Gulf, Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Tony Kennon, Corexit, Gulf Oil Spill, Ken Feinberg, National Shrimp Festival, Barack Obama, Satire, Green News
Jerry Cope

In its continuing effort to protect the public from toxic chemical exposure due to crude oil and Corexit dispersants, the City Of Orange Beach, Alabam...

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The Well Is Capped, But BP Saga Continues

Gibson Vance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waive Right to Sue Bp, Bp, Final Payments, Bp Claims, Immunity, Gulf Oil Spill, Waivers, Ken Feinberg, Kenneth Feinberg, Bp Claims Process, Business News
Gibson Vance

It's important to remember that BP is not showing magnanimity by participating in a compensation program -- fund or no fund, they are legally obligated to pay for damages caused by their explosion and spill.

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Kenneth Feinberg, Gulf Oil Fund Czar, Has Biggest Challenge Yet

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Spill Fund, Oil Fund Czar, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Fund, Kenneth Feinberg, Ken Feinberg, Gulf Oil Spill 2010, Politics News

Kenneth Feinberg is used to tough jobs. But his latest task--determining how to dole out the $20 billion BP is putting up to compensate victims of the...

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Feinberg Let BP Go Back On Its Word to Compensate "All Legitimate Claims"

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Conyers, Ken Feinberg, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Gulf Oil Spill, House Judiciary Committee, H.R. 5503, Politics News
Rep. John Conyers

As we remember the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I strongly urge Ken Feinberg, the Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, to reverse his decision not to pay victims' mental health claims.

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Gulf Oil Spill Victims May Be Able to Sue Some Companies

Bloomberg | Jim Snyder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill Victims, Ken Feinberg, Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Claims, BP Oil Spill, Kenneth Feinberg, Business News

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth Feinberg, who today will start drawing from a $20 billion escrow fund for Gulf oil spill victims, hasn't decided whethe...

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State's Oyster Growers Weigh Options in Claims Process

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Water Management, Ken Feinberg, Bp, Oil Spill, Restaurants, Mississippi River, Seafood, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Oyster growers seeking compensation for losses after the spill worry that payments will hinge on whether damages were from fresh-water flows ordered by Governor Bobby Jindal or the presence of oil.

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Oil Spill: The Ripple Effects

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Ken Feinberg, Bp, Alabama, 9/11, Massachusetts, Pensacola, British Petroleum, Virginia Tech, Kraver's Restaurant, Tom Beardon, Seafood Capital of Alabama, Bayou La Batre, Bruce Seaman, Delane Seaman, Patrick Kraver, Pbs Newshour, Lillie Kraver, Gulf, Mobile Bay, Oil Spill, Daphne, Politics News
Vicky Collins

I finally got to the Gulf coast to work on a story about the oil spill for PBS NewsHour. I didn't see any oil, but what I did witness was a a boatload of fear.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Pay Czar Names 17 Banks That Paid Huge Bonuses After Being Bailed Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, The Financial Fix, Financial Crisis, Kenneth Feinberg, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Video, Business News

The federal overseer entrusted with investigating Wall Street pay has declined to take action, arguing that the public wouldn't be served by going aft...

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White House Pay Czar Expected To Blast 17 Banks For 'Ill-Advised' Payments To Execs

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Banks, Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Pay, Business News

Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration's "pay czar," is set to slam the leadership of 17 bailed-out banks and other financial institutions that pr...

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Ken Feinberg, Obama Pay Czar: Bailout Firms Still Don't Get Public's Outrage Over Huge Pay Packages

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aig, Executive Compensation, Ken Feinberg, Financial Reform, Business News

White House pay czar Kenneth Feinberg said Monday that a number of firms under his jurisdiction remain out of sync with the rest of the nation on the ...

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Wall Street Bankers Are Overpaid, Says Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morgan Stanley, CEO Pay, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Kenneth Feinberg, Investment Bankers, Financial Reform, Compensation, Obama, Financial Services Industry, John Mack, White House, Bailout, Finance, Ceo, Banks, Bonuses, Bank Bailout, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street, Tarp, Performance, Business News

Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack said investment bankers are overpaid and Wall Street compensation won't decrease much because firms don't want to lo...

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AIG Bonuses In 2010 Total $100 Million

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — American International Group Inc. is set to pay out about $100 million in a fresh round of bonuses to employees of its financial prod...

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Wall Street Makes Merry With Other People's Money

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Tarp, Executive Pay, Wells Fargo, Afl-Cio, Aig, Pay Czar, Pay Czar Ken Feinberg, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Commercial Banks, Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Citigroup, New York News
Dan Collins

There's a good deal of jolliness on Wall Street this holiday season, thanks to the billions of dollars in bonuses that will be stuffed into the stockings of your favorite bankers. It's safe to assume the final tally will be very big.

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Supreme Court To Hear Case About Excessive Pay; Parallels Seen In Executive Compensation

Washington Post | Robert Barnes and Steven Mufson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John C. Bogle, Regulation, Reform, Obama, Investors, Mutual Funds, White House, Bailout, Sotomayor, Jones vs. Harris, Jones vs. Harris Associates, Wall Street, Excessive Pay, Vanguard Group, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Compensation, Pay Czar, Nfl, Index Funds, Barack Obama, Corporations, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Jones v. Harris Associates, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Apeals Court, Executive Pay, Business News

The Supreme Court this week will hear a case that raises bedrock questions about the ability of the market to set "reasonable" corporate compensation,...

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