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APNEWS.COM
US to pay $88M to families, victims of SC church massacre
By MEG KINNARD
According to the Justice Department, settlements for the families of
those killed range from $6 million to $7.5 million per claimant.
Survivors' settlements are $5 million per claimant.
Chances are those "families" will burn through it in a year, two years TOPS, and be right back living in squalor just as before.
Remember Rodney King? He received a $3.8-million civil settlement from the
City of Los Angeles, but pretty much all of it had disappeared by the time
his fiancée found him dead at the bottom of a swimming pool. As the L.A.
Times reported, King was: "...jobless and virtually broke. Gone is the settlement money he got after suing the city for violating his civil rights. All $3.8 million of it. Some went to the lawyers, some to family members,
some he simply wasted." (TNB!)...
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