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              The ‘Silent’ 9/11 Settlement
Monday, October 8th, 2007
By Shaun Mullen  Said Irene Golinski of Columbia, Maryland, whose husband, Ronald was aboard Flight 77 and one of 125 people to die at the Pentagon:
The families, however, will be unable to share those answers because of a broad gag order that is part of the settlement, the financial terms of which also are confidential. It therefore is not known if the families received more than they would have from the compensation fund set up by Congress after the terror attacks. Participants in the fund, administered by attorney Kenneth Feinberg, had to agree to not sue the airlines. Feinberg was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft to be Special Master of the fund, who worked for 33 months pro bono. In a Herculean task, Feinberg had to decide how much each family would receive based on how much each victim would have earned in a full lifetime. He personally presided over more than 900 of the 1,600 family hearings and eventually awarded a total of $7 billion to 97 percent of the families. The average payout was $1.8 million. I’m with blogger Ed Morrissey in having problems with the hold-out families, who to put the most charitable face on their litigation saw their seemingly altruistic intentions undercut by their not being able to get paid if they talked. Captain Ed writes that:
Some 13 other non-victims fund cases are still pending. Have Your Say: The ‘Silent’ 9/11 Settlement Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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