Mississippi Business Journal » Kenneth Feinberg http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 BP Gulf spill compensation fund to be audited http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/21/bp-gulf-spill-compensation-fund-to-be-audited/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bp-gulf-spill-compensation-fund-to-be-audited http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/21/bp-gulf-spill-compensation-fund-to-be-audited/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:54:03 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=43764 WASHINGTON — An independent audit will be performed on the $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday. In a letter to the fund’s administrator, Kenneth Feinberg, Holder stressed that the goal is to balance the need for [...]

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