MIAMI — A Florida man has been charged with attempting to defraud the claims fund set up by BP following last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Miami federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 36-year-old Eliu Gonzalez sent a fraudulent electronic claim last October for more than $110,000 in supposedly lost income due to the spill. Gonzalez formerly lived in Florida City and more recently in Costa Rica.
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By MARY PEREZ – meperez@sunherald.com
BILOXI — The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force has met in Pensacola, New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston and will be in Biloxi today for the fifth and final meeting before releasing its strategy for restoring the Gulf a year after the oil spill.
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Attorney Ken Feinberg told the Sun Herald today that he expects that an independent audit of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility should be completed by Thanksgiving.
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SOURCE Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Funds Eight Research Teams, Additional Grant Competition to be Announced Soon
RESTON, Va., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Research on the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico took a major step forward today with the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GRI) Research Board’s announcement that eight Research Consortia will be funded for the next three years. A total of $112.5 million over three years will support this portion of the GRI research effort. These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment, the impacts of the spill, and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -
A federal judge has ruled that plaintiffs can seek punitive damages in some claims related to the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier’s ruling came in mass litigation related to thousands of claims over economic damages.
The judge dismissed claims filed under state law because they’re “pre-empted by maritime law.” He also dismissed some maritime claims that “don’t allege physical damage to a proprietary interest.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -
Federal officials probing reports of small amounts of oil popping up on the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out last year say they’ve found no oil leaking from seafloor wells.
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BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -
The attorney who oversees the BP oil spill claims process said, “I like where we are after one year.”
Kenneth Feinberg issued a progress report Tuesday, one year after the opening of the “Gulf Coast Claims Facility(GCCF).”
In the past 12 months, nearly one million oil spill claims were filed, with $5 Billion in damages paid out.
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Attorney Ken Feinberg said his Gulf Coast Claims Facility has in its first year of operation paid more than $5 billion on 350,000 claims from individuals and businesses as a result of the BP oil catastrophe.
Feinberg said 430,000 claims have been denied, and a total of 947,892 have been filed.
“The GCCF has largely succeeded in its primary objective — to compensate those individuals and businesses who can demonstrate financial harm due to the oil spill,” a GCCF executive summary said.
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LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration announced Friday it will hold its first oil-and-gas-lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since 2010’s deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
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ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — Baldwin County commissioners have voted to proceed with an $11.95 million damages claim involving last year’s oil spill.
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