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...lived in California, you'd know that Connell can be a pain in the butt - especially to the rears of spendthrift public servants wasting taxpayer money. As the fiscal watchdog for the state, she uncovered more than $1 billion worth of Medi-Cal fraud in 1999 and more recently, refused to pick up $2,600 in expenses for takeout sushi and pizza ordered by state employees working late during the energy crisis. At the time CalPERS was considering JEDI II, Connell was the only one on the board with an investment banking background. An investment banker for a decade...
After Feinberg speaks, he stands back and braces himself for an artillery of angry rhetorical questions. Gerry Sweeney, whose brother died in Tower 2, Floor 105, points at Feinberg and explains why $250,000 is not enough for pain and suffering in the case of her now fatherless nephew. "Have you ever seen a 12-year-old have a nervous breakdown?" she asks. Another woman concocts an analogy to illustrate for Feinberg what it was like to talk to loved ones as they came to accept their imminent, violent deaths and to watch the towers collapse on live...
...estimate this amount, each family was handed an easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic losses, they are called. Tack on an extra $50,000 in pain and suffering for a spouse and for each child. The charts, while functional, are brutal, crystallizing how readily the legal system commodifies life...
...once the interim rules were drawn up by Feinberg's office--in conjunction with the Department of Justice and the Office of Management and Budget--there were some surprises. In particular, the figures for pain and suffering astonished some who had backed the fund. "The numbers are low by any measure," says Boyle. Feinberg says he chose the $250,000 figure because that's how much beneficiaries receive from the Federal Government when fire fighters and police die on the job. The additional $50,000 for the spouse and each child is, he admits, "just some rough approximation of what...
...haven’t found a rational person who wouldn’t agree that if we could prevent a terrorist attack by administering non-lethal pain, we should do it. The question is whether it will be open or secret...