The Rich Get Richer While the Sick Get Sicker

Over the past eight years more and more people have become seriously ill

as the result of the aftermath of 9/11.



Now let's see how the government and the courts have handled this.



Even though the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New

York found that former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman's

falsely reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the

September 11, 2001 attacks were "without question conscience-shocking."



The court also found the facts "support an allegation of a violation of

the substantive due process right to be free from official government

policies that increase the risk of bodily harm" by Whitman's

misstatements regarding the air quality of the affected area.



The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stated that she could not be held

liable for her actions.



Why you might ask?



Well the Appeals Court stated that legal remedies are not always

available for every instance of arguably deficient governmental

performance.



So a representative of the government knowingly deceives the public and

puts them at risk but they cannot be held responsible.



If you think that's bad it only gets worse.



In what looked like an act of good faith the federal government gives

NYC a billion dollars to help settle claims for people taken ill as a

result of 9/11.



And what does NYC do?



It gives a contract to the WTC Captive Insurance Corp not to settle

these claims but to fight every one of them in court.



So instead of settling these claims with the money provided, over $300

million has gone to pay lawyers to fight the claims.



This not for profit is also permitted to invest these funds and manages

to lose another couple of hundred million.



And it gets worse.



NYC then uses these funds to fight not only health claims but also to

fight the case brought by 9/11 family members seeking to have remains

relocated from the Fresh Kills Landfill.



So NYC is just using this fund as its own personal checking account to

do with it what it pleases.



Over half a billion spent or lost and less than $500,000 paid to sick

victims.



As victims lose their life savings paying medical bills these lawyers

laugh all the way to the bank.



As the NYC paid lawyers rack up their billable hours people continue to

die.



Teddy Roosevelt once said "Justice consists not in being neutral between

right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever

found, against the wrong".



Apparently not in New York where the rich get richer while the sick get

sicker.