Who is Kenneth Feinberg? Obama's "Pay Czar" who will oversee BP's

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$20 Billion Payout.

"It's been a busy few days for Kenneth R. Feinberg: The Washington National Opera reappointed him last week as president of its board of trustees, granting him a third two-year term. And now President Obama wants him to oversee an escrow account funded by BP that will compensate the victims of the April 20 Gulf Coast oil spill.

Kenneth R. Feinberg (AP)Challenging? Yes, but whether it's putting a value on the footage of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the use of "Agent Orange" during the Vietnam War, the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the Virginia Tech shootings or the global economic crisis, Feinberg is the go-to guy on some of the most emotional and legally challenging questions of the last decade.

The son of a tire salesman and bookkeeper from Brockton, Mass., Feinberg graduated from the University of Massachusetts and New York University Law School. He acted in college, briefly considered a theatrical career and teaches an opera course at the Levine School.

Feinberg once clerked for New York State Court of Appeals Chief Justice Stanley H. Fuld, served as chief of staff to the late Edward M. Kennedy and in 1984 helped settle a dispute between Vietnam War veterans and chemical companies that produced the herbicide known as "Agent Orange."

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/06/who_is_kenneth_feinberg.html

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1. What a unique niche Feinberg has carved out for himself.

A LOT of highly-charged responsibility. But he seems to handle it well.

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2. I was going to give all that

info and link in the previous post to you on Feinberg but I decided to make an OP out of it. Good thing..you already had personal monetary encounter with him.:)