Freeh: Possible corruption in BP claims handling

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Freeh: Possible corruption in BP claims handling
Published: September 7, 2013 Updated 9 minutes ago

By CHEVEL JOHNSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN — The Associated Press


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.

But the independent probe led by Louis Freeh didn't find any evidence of wrongdoing by the multibillion-dollar settlement's court-appointed administrator, who has been a target of BP's increasingly aggressive campaign to challenge payouts to Gulf Coast businesses.

Freeh, who was appointed by a federal judge to investigate alleged misconduct by a staff attorney who worked on the settlement program, cleared claims administrator Patrick Juneau of engaging in any "conflict of interest, or unethical or improper conduct."

The report also found nothing that warranted shutting down payments to victims of the oil spill, which spewed millions of gallons of oil into the water, fouling marshes, fisheries and beaches from Louisiana to Florida.

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[hobbit709]

1. Maybe they should have been looking at BP

I imagine they would have found plenty of corruption.