On Dec. 21 the newly appointed Special Master, Kenneth Feinberg, released and explained the “procedural and substantive” regulations that, presumptively, will govern the conduct of the Victims’ Compensation Fund, the fund that will compensate virtually all of the families victimized by the World Trade Center disaster. Although these regulations spelled out a measure of rough justice for many of the WTC victims, for an equal number, or more, they constituted a virtual abandonment, by their government, of the true extent of their sad plight.
Thirty days have been allowed to comment on these regulations. Then they will be final.
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