U.S.: BP Handling of Claims Slammed by Gulf Residents - IPS ipsnews.net
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Apr 17, 2011 (IPS) - Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, paid by BP to administer the firm's 20-billion-dollar compensation fund, has become the focal point of anger for Gulf residents who are angry, frustrated and desperate for help following last year's massive oil disaster.
"Most of the people I care about are hungry, they've lost their house, they're losing their cars," Cherri Foytlin, the co-founder of Gulf Change, a community organisation in Louisiana, told IPS.
"I've met so many people who had red beans and rice for dinner last Christmas while this man's firm is getting 850,000 dollars a month for this," she said. "I saw people on their knees in these meetings begging this man. I don't know how he sleeps at night. He takes money from BP and claims to represent and care about people in the Gulf."
Foytlin refers to Feinberg's firm being paid approximately one million dollars per month by
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