UPDATE 1-Freeh says ex-SemGroup CEO claims 'inaccurate'

NEW YORK, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Bankruptcy court- appointed examiner Louis Freeh fired back on Tuesday at a statement from former SemGroup LP [SEMGP.UL] CEO Thomas Kivisto, calling criticism of his report "inaccurate and misleading."

Freeh, a former FBI director, had filed a 258-page report with the court earlier this month blaming Kivisto and other top executives at SemGroup for the company's fall into bankruptcy by lying about its liquidity and mismanaging its trading activities .

But Kivisto's lawyer issued a statement on Monday blaming the collapse of SemGroup, once the 14-largest U.S. private company, on the company's lenders, not trading activities directed by Kivisto.

"While it is interesting to read what amounts to Mr. Kivisto's lawyers' 'Letter to the Editor,' I would have preferred to have Mr. Kivisto's testimony under oath, which he and his counsel declined to provide," Freeh said in a statement.

"Their press release is inaccurate and misleading on the whole and it fails to address the central findings of the (report)." (Reporting by Matt Daily and Emily Chasan; Editing by Andre Grenon)