losing their livelyhood. Plus most are under investigation for filing subsistence claims. These are small claims for the loss of the seafood that they caught and ate themselves. They investigated almost every subsistence claim (former FBI director Louis Freeh's group). The week before Christmas we were all told that if they dropped their claim before they were put under investigation, their economic claims will be ok (any investigation of any of a victim's claims freezes all of their claims and could result in losing all claims and a claw back of any money paid.
At 9:00 Wednesday night before Christmas, when the settlement office closed for the holidays and so did all of the plaintiff's attorney's offices, they sent out thousands of FWA (Fraud, Waste, and Abuse) denials effectively wiping out these fishermen's claims. Merry Christmas mother fuckers!
This is another in a long line of corrupt, grossly unfair rulings in the BP oil spill case. We are almost 6 years from the spill and most have not been paid, nor will they be. The Plaintiff's Steering Committee (PSC) will son be making their request to be paid the $600,000,000 BP offered them if they agreed to this shitty class settlement. The settlement was designed to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in valid claims so BP had to sweeten the pot for the PSC, who were appointed by their friend the judge in the case, Carl Barbier. One of the big kickers for this bribe was that the PSC only gets the money if the settlement goes through to the end without being overturned. This, the PSC would never try to oppose this shitty deal or they could lose the $600,000,000 bribe. Steve Herman, the PSC liaison to all of the other firms who represent victims, firms like ours, has even admitted that the deal turned out really bad (just like we said in our brief in opposition at the beginning). At the beginning he said it was the best deal ever negotiated. It was, just not for the people he represented.
I will do a OP on this when I get back in the office. I hope someone can get it in front of Bernie Sanders and he can see for himself what big foreign corporations can do and shine a light on this corruption, the poster child for what his campaign I'd fighting against! The Alabama governor is just one in a long line of politicians BP fed at their money trough! Even Obama benefitted so BP could get him to bless their 20 billion dollar fund (there was never 20 billion in a fund), as well as the "Independant" Ken Feinberg who would oversee the first settlement program. BP hand picked the SOB who ran around the Gulf Coast in Town Hall meetings and on TV telling people not to hire an attorney because he was Independant. Even Judge Barbier had enough and ruled later that he had always been BP's representative. No one was punished for that either.
This shit makes me sick!!!
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