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On January 16, 2002, a school shooting occurred at the Appalachian School of Law, an American Bar Association accredited private law school in Grundy, Virginia, United States. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded when a former student, 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, opened fire in the school with a handgun .
The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, commonly known as the VCF, was a U.S. government fund that was created by an Act of Congress [1] shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
The 9/11 attack 20 years ago touched lives in every corner of the country, according to a new report chronicling victim compensation claims from every state in the nation. Though the damage was ...
Richard Breeden, the former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman who oversees the Madoff Victim Fund, said a final $131.4 million payout will go to 23,408 claimants, and mark the ...
The fund was established for people who were at the crash sites at some point between Sept. 11, 2001, and May 30, 2002, and who have since been diagnosed with a 9/11-related illness.
The United States Crime Victims Fund, administered by the Office for Victims of Crime, is used to recompense victims of offenses against U.S. law. [1] [2] [3] The fund was established as part of the 1984 Victims of Crimes Act.
In July 2007, Kenneth R. Feinberg, who served as Special Master of the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, was named to administer the fund's distributions. [119] In October 2007, the families and surviving victims received payments from the fund ranging from $11,500 to $208,000. [120]
Virginia is the first state in the U.S. to do this, driven in part by the mass shootings at a Walmart in Chesapeake last year.