From the St. Petersburg Times:

“Lenny Stamos, owner of Beach Cyclists in St. Pete Beach, said he sent in five years of sales tax returns to document his $34,000 loss for last summer. The agency turned down his emergency claim for insufficient documentation, he said. He’s represented by a lawyer.

“My wife and I borrowed $30,000 on our credit cards to keep the business going,” Stamos said.

A claims agent told him he didn’t see any emergency if they had money to borrow, he said.”

And at a news conference on Monday, Ken Feinberg bristled as to why his office has approved $3.8 billion dollars from the $20 billion dollar fund while rejecting thousands of claims…

Keep bristling, Ken…

At least until you answer some basic questions, such as – when will you finally open the books so people can find out what is going on with the GCCF…or, why is it when reporter after reporter continues to find people the GCCF has done wrong, you shrug it away, saying:

The GCCF isn’t perfect…

Yes, we’ve made mistakes…

We’re handling a lot of claims…

Hey Ken, we know this already, and these answers aren’t sufficient.

If you can’t figure out why these mistakes are being made, why people are being left behind…open the books and give somebody else a try…because your lack of payments are hurting people, hurting them badly. As long as there is a dollar left in that escrow account, the money should keep going out –  one person losing a business, losing a house, or one family who’s had to break things up for awhile, is simply one too many.

It certainly doesn’t make things right, no…not at all.

Read the article:

BP claims czar defends payouts of just $3.8 billion from $20 billion fund

And in case you missed it, a good overview of the GCCF, from it’s beginning to the present:

Oil spill claims czar Kenneth Feinberg is ‘bloodied, but unbowed’ – David Hammer

Have a nice day.