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20 June 2010
From the front page of the Drudge Report this evening:

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Read also BP Oil Spill: As Pay Czar Promises Money, Workers Turned Away From BP Claims Center. Feinberg Says Money is on the Way; Coast Guard Defends Spill Response, Saying Regulations Got in the Way

…President Obama this week named [Kenneth] Feinberg as his “pay czar” for BP’s oil spill escrow account.

“We’ll decide who will get paid,” he promised, saying “we’re going to get them paid immediately. […] A matter of days.”

But even as Feinberg made that promise today, ABC News watched as BP turned workers away from a claims center in Mobile, Alabama. They were told they didn’t have the right paperwork — the trip tickets, deposit slips, bank statements and tax returns needed.

Feinberg said he can fix the problem.

“We’re going to make sure people get emergency money and accelerate the process,” he said…

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