BP fund overseer gives credit to Realtors 
Feinberg: Associations' compensation program 'continues to work'
By Matt Carter, Monday, November 8, 2010.
Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, June 26, 2010. Flickr image courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video.NEW ORLEANS -- Kenneth Feinberg -- the attorney overseeing a $20 billion fund set up to compensate victims of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -- received three standing ovations Sunday when he addressed Realtors at their annual convention.
Realtors and association executives rose to their feet and unleashed a spontaneous round of applause when Feinberg walked into a meeting room at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, a few minutes late.
Feinberg got another standing ovation when he finished briefing the group on the progress the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, as the third-party administrator of the relief fund is known, has made in distributing funds set aside by oil giant BP.
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