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Tyrone Benton said the leak was not fixed at the time, but that the faulty device was shut down instead and a second one relied on.
Mr Feinberg ran the victims' claim fund set up in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
"We've got to get the claims out quicker," he told CNN. "We've got to get them out with more transparency so that claimants understand what the status is of their claim.
"And we've got to ease the burden on these folks in the Gulf. I was there last week. I'll be there tomorrow. We've got to accelerate the process just as the president instructed me to do."
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The man running the $20bn (Ł13.5bn) fund to compensate Gulf of Mexico oil spill victims says he is determined to speed up the payment of claims.
Kenneth Feinberg said President Barack Obama wanted to "get these claims paid. Get them paid quickly".
He also said he would "err on the side of the claimant" in assessing emergency claims from fishermen and businesses.
Oil giant BP agreed to bankroll the fund, under pressure from Mr Obama, after the sinking of its rig in April.
Meanwhile, a worker on the Deepwater Horizon platform - which exploded and sank killing 11 workers - has told the BBC's Panorama programme he had identified a leak in the rig's safety equipment weeks before the blast.
