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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.
Kenneth Roy Feinberg (born October 23, 1945) is an American attorney specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution.He served as the Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Kennedy, Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation.
In the aftermath of the attack, the American Red Cross' Liberty Fund amassed $547 million in donations. The charitable organization halted the collection of donations in October 2001, announcing that the monies pledged would be enough to cover immediate and longterm efforts to support the victims of the attack. [3]
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.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed a bill ensuring that a victims' compensation fund related to the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.
SGEs have a variety of roles, depending on the agency; for example, Department of Justice SGEs included attorneys with the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Department of Health and Human Services SGEs included medical professionals associated with the National Disaster Medical System, and National Science Foundation and Nuclear ...
The administrator of a fund for victims of sexual abuse by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, which opened for claims Thursday, said that more than 100 victims or their attorneys have already ...
The firm represented many of the 9/11 victims, both in the victims' compensation fund and in litigation against the security companies and airlines. [13] The firm took a leading role in challenging, unsuccessfully, what it claimed was a de facto cap on payments in the VCF, based on the regulations and comments made by VCF Special Master Kenneth ...