Correction: The headline has been changed to reflect that special master Louis Freeh asked for the money back.

A special master appointed to look for fraud in BP’s $9.2 billion settlement over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill wants an Alabama commercial fisherman to return $330,332 in claim money he received based on tax returns that were never filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

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