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Way harder than it should be: Why Congress may balk on $1.7B compensation fund
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had never appeared before a congressional panel asking for money to run his department until Tuesday morning.
And even though cabinet secretaries routinely make their budget requests to Congress, it appears that Blanche apparently didn’t even need to ask lawmakers for the most-controversial batch of federal funds in years.
It was already approved. Somehow.
Blanche’s Justice Department announced the creation of a billion compensation fund to pay people who Republicans say are victims of government weaponization. Who gets the money isn’t clear. And what’s murkier still is how the stash of cash came about.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a Fighting For American Workers event in Suffern, N.Y., on May 22, 2026. (Ryan Murphy/AP)
In short, President Donald Trump sued his own IRS for leaking his tax returns – along with the filings of several hundred other Americans. Then, Blanche’s own Department of Justice announced that the president essentially settled with himself.
«Per the settlement, plaintiffs will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind. They have agreed, in exchange for the creation of this fund, to drop their pending lawsuit with prejudice, and also withdraw two administrative claims, including for damages resulting from the unlawful raid of Mar-a-Lago and the Russia-collusion hoax,» read the DoJ statement.
The fund is worth $1.776 billion. Get it? 1776.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke during a news conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2026. He discussed the department’s anti-fraud efforts and announced the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
So while the president couldn’t receive money from this fund, his political allies and donors could.
All without congressional input.
«I realize it’s a lot of money,» said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. «I want to understand where the money comes from. Do we find it in the budget? Do we have to borrow it? There’s just a lot of unanswered questions.»
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., has argued a third budget reconciliation package is unlikely to materialize this year, adding the forthcoming immigration enforcement-focused bill is the «last train leaving the station» ahead of November’s midterm elections. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«What I want to know is how the fund is created and what its purpose is,» said Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.
«And (I want to know) the legality of creating a fund that Congress hasn’t had anything to say about.»
The government swept up the phone information of multiple Republican lawmakers after the January 6 riot as part of Operation Arctic Frost. That included the records of Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn. He defended the fund.
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Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., is seen inside the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)
«What we ought to be talking about is the reasons for the compensation. Weaponization of government that took place under former President Joe Biden was an absolute disgrace,» said Hagerty.
Blanche formerly served as President Trump’s personal legal counsel. Lawmakers argued that Blanche reverted to that role when he created the compensation fund out of the ether.
«Mr. Attorney General, you are acting today like the president’s personal attorney. And that’s the whole problem,» said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen questions U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during a subcommittee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«You’re a very gifted lawyer. But from my perspective, you have very little faith to the Constitution and the people of America. And you’re the president’s consigliere,» piled on Sen. Jack Reed D-R.I.
Lawmakers questioned who qualifies for compensation.
«Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund?» asked Van Hollen.
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«Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization,» replied Blanche.
And that’s what concerned bipartisan lawmakers. The compensation conundrum instantly spilled over into a major bill, due to the hit the Senate floor.
Congressional Republicans were trying to pass a bill to finally address funding for ICE and Border Patrol, once and for all. But they planned to bypass a Democratic filibuster using a special process called budget reconciliation.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrol seen patrolling an airport. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
The good thing about reconciliation is that you can pass a bill with 51 yeas and don’t need to clear the filibuster with 60 votes. The bad thing is that the reconciliation process entails what the Senate refers to as a «vote-a-rama.» This is where senators can offer practically any amendment on any subject in a drawn-out process which might consume an entire calendar day.
Republicans freaked out that Democrats would force them to take controversial votes on the compensation fund. And frankly, many Republicans intended to author their own amendments to curb the fund – simultaneously inoculating themselves from blowback.
That political brew was too much for Senate Republicans.
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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., spoke to reporters after the Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 28, 2026. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
They summoned Blanche to Capitol Hill Thursday morning to explain the fund. The meeting didn’t go well. Fox is told that Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., were pointed in their comments to Blanche. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., popped into the Capitol’s Ohio Clock Corridor en route to the meeting. Tillis was in mid-conversation. All anyone could hear Tillis say was «And I’m not voting for it!» as he walked by.
By early afternoon, Republican leaders scrapped the bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and sent everyone home for Memorial Day. It was the biggest legislative rebuke of President Trump’s second term.
«I just don’t know how this puppy dog will work,» said Kennedy. «I think there were six or seven people who are going to vote no.»
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Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate GOP leaders are pushing forward with budget reconciliation to fund the final piece of government that had been shut down by Senate Democrats’ opposition to President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu)
Yet Republicans were practically on the verge of finally ending the ICE and Border Patrol funding impasse.
«The sole reason we are here today is because Democrats refused to fund law enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security,» said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
The debate over funding for the president’s ballroom wasn’t exactly the foxtrot for Senate Republicans. But the compensation fund converted the reconciliation process into the samba.
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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., listens during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Feb. 13, 2025. (Bill Clark/Unknown)
No fancy footwork here. Republicans managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
«There are a lot of questions about it. I have Republican colleagues who have concerns about who can receive funding from that fund,» said Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind.
However Banks noted that «every single Republican who was on the ballot like I was in the ‘24 cycle talked about stopping the weaponization of government.»
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Sen.-elect Peter Welch, D-Vt., walks through the hallways of the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Democrats watched as Republicans blanched at what Blanche told them.
«I think my Republican colleagues have reached their limit,» said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
Thune said the compensation fund «makes everything way harder than it should be.» He declared that the White House should should have «consulted» with Congressional Republicans about the fund ahead of time. So deadlocked, Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., dismissed everyone until early June.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is mounting a longshot bid to retake Senate control during November’s midterm elections. (Kylie Cooper-Pool/Getty Images)
«Republicans are so divided, so dysfunctional, so disorganized, that they are fleeing Washington. Their majority can’t melt down fast enough,» said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
However, some of the President’s allies defended the compensation fund.
«I feel comfortable that whose who have been wronged by their government should have some sort of redress,» said Sen. Eric Schmidt, R-Mo.
And even though the president recently steamrolled some GOP foes politically, Republicans blocked him legislatively.
«We should have full review of what we’re funding,» said Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont. «Congress has our obligation.»
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So President Trump may get the personnel he wants in Congress next year as Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., go by the wayside. But securing the policies may need to wait until the president’s preferred candidates are in place in 2027.
That’s why some lawmakers are questioning whether Congress can move any more meaningful legislation the rest of this year. Everything else from here on will be «way harder than it should be.»
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Crisis en Bolivia: Rodrigo Paz, un presidente urgido por retomar el control y la seguridad de su país
Mientras muchos confían en que el clima de violencia que se vivió a comienzos de esta semana en La Paz ya se apaciguó, pese a la nueva movilización que terminó con graves enfrentamientos este viernes, la gran incógnita ahora en Bolivia es cómo hará el presidente Rodrigo Paz para resolver lo más urgente, que es despejar las rutas que están bloqueadas por grupos combativos y que han causado un preocupante desabastecimiento de combustible y productos esenciales.
Lo que está claro para muchos analistas con los que conversó Clarín aquí es que, aún si se levantan los piquetes, y los comercios y transportes pueden retomar su ritmo, la crisis social y política es mucho más profunda y no se resolverá en lo inmediato. El gobierno de centroderecha de Paz no parece tener el respaldo y la fortaleza suficiente para tomar el control de una situación que en los últimos días se salió de su cauce.
“La gran pregunta es por qué el gobierno no está actuando”, señaló a esta enviada el analista político Carlos Toranzo, columnista de Brújula Digital. “Hay dos probables respuestas: una es que el gobierno esté esperando que el movimiento que pide la renuncia de Paz se desgaste. Otra es que está esperando que sea la gente la que rechace estos movimientos”.
De hecho, ya desde el jueves se vieron grandes marchas en diferentes ciudades en rechazo a los piquetes que dejaron prácticamente sin combustible ni alimentos a varios barrios de La Paz. El gobierno de Rodrigo Paz ha llamado al diálogo y propuso un gran consejo económico y social para tratar de resolver los conflictos. También cambió el jueves a su ministro de Trabajo, Williams Bascopé, abogado de origen aimara, reemplazó a Edgar Morales, muy criticado por el sector obrero.
Pero los intentos de Paz por descomprimir la tensión tuvieron por ahora magros resultados. “El gobierno es totalmente débil. Fue y es un gobierno improvisado. Fue producto de un voto contra el mal menor”, señaló Toranzo. Muchos ciudadanos que durante años votaron al MAS no querían votar a las opciones más de derecha. Y Rodrigo Paz emergió como una alternativa “de centro”, dispuesta a acercarse a los sectores populares.
Paz no cuenta con suficiente respaldo legislativo, en un Parlamento muy fraccionado. “Y tampoco tiene un equipo de gobierno, eso debe ser solucionado con prontitud”, señala Toranzo. “El país no quiere un retroceso democrático, no desea volver a la autocracia que hundió a Bolivia en la inmoralidad y corrupción durante 20 años de gobierno del MAS. El país está esperando que haya gobierno”, remarcó el analista.
Los movimientos de ciudadanos que comenzaron a salir a las calles para pedir respuestas frente a la grave situación de desabastecimiento y en reclamo de una salida “democrática” expresan el hastío frente a esta profunda inestabilidad. Y no sólo los bolivianos quieren una solución. Los países de la región miran con inquietud lo que aquí ocurre.
La declaración del grupo del Escudo de las Américas -Estados Unidos y varios de Sudamérica- en respaldo a una salida democrática en Bolivia muestra la importancia que el país tiene a los ojos de la comunidad internacional. Y el riesgo de que esta crisis pueda repercutir en naciones vecinas.
El analista político Diego Ayo señala que incluso en El Alto, epicentro de las protestas contra Rodrigo Paz y bastión de los movimientos que apoyan al ex presidente Evo Morales, muchos habitantes se están alzando contra las marchas y piquetes.
“En El Alto tienes poderosas burguesías andinas, sectores pudientes que generan millones de dólares. La enorme feria 16 de julio –un mercado gigantesco que muchos comparan con La Salada de Buenos Aires- tiene 300.000 vendedores que mueven millones por semana. No van a permitir que unos bloqueadores les rompan el comercio”, explicó.
“Hay que ver el problema en su complejidad, hay que entender que estos grupos movilizados que tenían el beneplácito de toda Bolivia en el año 2003, hoy ya no lo tienen. Casi toda Bolivia, la Paz y parte de El Alto están en contra de estas movilizaciones. Son resabios de un partidismo masista y de un manejo prebendario y clientelar del Estado. Sin desmerecer a gente que auténticamente pueda reclamar, pero los que bloquean las rutas lo que quieren es un retorno del MAS al poder, a través de este golpe social de Estado”, consideró.
El gobierno de Rodrigo Paz tiene agendadas varias reuniones este fin de semana para tratar de buscar una solución. Por ahora, reina la incertidumbre.
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Por primera vez se conocen imágenes del interior de la cueva donde murieron cinco buzos italianos en Maldivas
Se difundieron las primeras imágenes del interior de la cueva Dhevana Kandu, en el Atolón de Vaavu, Maldivas, donde murieron los cuatro turistas y el instructor italianos. La organización Divers Network Alert (DAN) Europe publicó las fotografías tomadas por el rescatista finlandés Sami Paakkarinen, quien trabajó junto con los buzos Jenni Westerlund y Patrik Grönqvist en la misión de recuperación de los cuerpos.
Las imágenes muestran por qué este sistema de cuevas es tan peligroso: lo que comienza como una caverna amplia con luz natural se convierte rápidamente en una serie de túneles oscuros donde la visibilidad puede reducirse a cero.
Asimismo, la organización publicó el informe oficial de la misión de búsqueda y recuperación de los cuerpos en su página web. El operativo se extendió durante cuatro días, del 18 al 21 de mayo, y fue el resultado de una coordinación internacional que involucró a la Fuerza Nacional de Defensa de Maldivas, el Servicio de Policía de Maldivas, un equipo finlandés de buceo técnico, el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Italia y otras organizaciones locales. DAN Europe difundió las primeras imágenes del equipo de rescate en la sección inicial de la caverna, donde todavía accede la luz. (Foto: Sami Paakkarinen/DAN Europe/Instagram @daneurope.)
El primer día operativo estuvo dedicado a la inspección del sistema de cuevas y a la identificación de la ubicación de los buzos desaparecidos, lo que se completó con éxito. Durante el segundo y el tercer día, el equipo llevó a cabo la recuperación de los cuerpos “en condiciones ambientales y operativas de gran complejidad”. El cuarto y último día se destinó a retirar todo el equipamiento y los materiales que habían quedado en el interior de la cueva. Todo lo recuperado fue entregado a las autoridades competentes.
La entrada de la cueva Thinwana Kandu. (Foto: Sami Paakkarinen/DAN Europe/Instagram @daneurope.)
Cómo es la cueva y dónde estaban las víctimas
El informe describe con precisión la estructura del sistema de cuevas que atrapó a los buzos. El acceso “se realiza a través de una primera cámara, una gran caverna”. Desde allí, “parte un túnel que conduce a una segunda cámara de grandes dimensiones, completamente a oscuras”, con un “fondo arenoso que puede reducir considerablemente la visibilidad si se altera”, señala el comunicado. La imagen muestra las secciones internas de la cueva, donde disminuye la visibilidad. (Foto: Sami Paakkarinen/DAN Europe/Instagram @daneurope.)
Fue durante las operaciones de búsqueda cuando el equipo identificó “un túnel adicional que se ramificaba desde esa segunda cámara”, ubicado a un lado del túnel de entrada. Al explorar ese ramal, los rescatistas encontraron a los cuatro turistas italianos en la misma zona, juntos. Los cuerpos fueron recuperados por un quipo de buzos finlandeses. (Foto: Sami Paakkarinen/DAN Europe/Instagram @daneurope.)
La evaluación preliminar de DAN Europe señala: “Se presume que los buceadores no pudieron encontrar el camino de regreso a la salida, probablemente debido a la desorientación dentro del sistema de cuevas”. La hipótesis es que, al intentar salir de la segunda cámara, confundieron el túnel lateral con el túnel de entrada y quedaron atrapados.
En el rescate, participaron tres buzos profesionales. (Foto: Sami Paakkarinen/DAN Europe/Instagram @daneurope.)
El informe aclara que cualquier “determinación adicional sobre las causas y circunstancias del incidente será responsabilidad de las autoridades policiales e investigadoras” de Maldivas, e instó al público y a los medios a “abstenerse de difundir suposiciones o especulaciones no verificadas, por respeto a las víctimas y sus familias”.
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DAN Europe cerró el comunicado con un aviso de seguridad contundente: “Se recomienda encarecidamente no entrar en este sistema de cuevas sin la debida autorización, formación especializada en espeleobuceo y el equipo técnico apropiado. Los entornos de espeleobuceo son intrínsecamente peligrosos y solo deben ser explorados por buceadores altamente capacitados y debidamente equipados”.
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Military families demand DOJ distribute nearly $800M from French cement company found guilty of bribing ISIS
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In November 2017, Chief Petty Officer Kenton Stacy was injured in Raqqa, Syria while clearing the second floor of a hospital that ISIS had booby trapped with explosives.
Now a quadriplegic, Stacy, his wife Lindsey, and their 4 children are part of a lawsuit brought by military families against the French cement company, Lafarge, recently found guilty by a French Court of paying millions of dollars in bribes to ISIS to keep their factory open in ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.
«I mean, they were essentially funneling money to fund terrorists and ISIS and all these heinous crimes and evil acts,» Lindsey Stacy told Fox News while standing by the side of her husband, the former Navy Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialist, who just had another surgery to deal with injuries sustained in Syria 9 years ago.
«It’s very overwhelming, Kenton struggles mentally and physically with his own battles and the kids and I. We have our own struggles,» she continued. «It’s hard to juggle, especially when our oldest son has cerebral palsy, and he requires his own 24-7 care.»
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Lafarge pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group to keep a plant in Syria open, the Justice Department announced in federal court in New York City on Nov. 14, 2017. (Christophe Ena/AP)
President Trump praised Stacy’s service to the nation in his 2018 State of the Union Address to Congress. Army Staff Sergeant Justin Peck bounded into a booby-trapped building to rescue Kenton and then gave him more than 2 hours of CPR while medics worked to save his life.
«Kenton Stacy would have died if not for Justin’s selfless love for a fellow warrior. Tonight, Kenton is recovering in Texas. Raqqa is liberated.…All of America salutes you.»
In a landmark ruling in April, a French court convicted Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, of providing material support to a terror group and sentenced its former CEO to 6 years in prison. Eight former Lafarge employees were found guilty. Lafarge is appealing.
The company acknowledged the court’s finding describing the issue as a «legacy matter,» which was «in flagrant violation of Lafarge’s Code of Conduct.»
Nearly 1,000 plaintiffs, most of them military families, are part of earlier litigation in the Eastern District of New York.
«They were killed in Syria by a gruesome terrorist organization that was funded in part by Lafarge. And that’s not an allegation. That is undisputed fact. Lafarge pled guilty to doing that in 2022.»
Todd Toral, the lawyer from Jenner & Block, is representing Stacy and about 25 other families.
Toral, who is also a US Marine, is seeking compensation for those families from the $777 million Lafarge paid to the Justice Department as part of the settlement. The DOJ has had that money since Oct 2022.
«I think the ruling by the court in France is significant generally, because it’s the first time in many, many years that a corporation, and not just the corporation, but executives at a corporation have been held to account for their misconduct in aiding terrorism,» Toral said in an interview with Fox.
In order to operate in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria, Lafarge paid more than $6.5 million to ISIS from 2013–2014 through its Syrian subsidiary to keep production facilities running. The cement produced at its factory in Jalabiya, a factory which was bought for $680 million months before the Syrian uprising began in 2011, was also used for tunnels and bunkers, which helped the terrorist group.
The lawsuit is significant because it marks the first time a company has faced U.S. charges for supporting a terrorist group.
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President Donald Trump arrives at the commencement ceremony on Cadet Memorial Field at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., on May 20, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In October 2022, Lafarge settled with the DOJ before the French ruling, paying more than $777 million into an asset forfeiture fund currently controlled by the DOJ, funds which are supposed to compensate victims of the ISIS attacks, many of them American Gold Star families, like Hailey Dayton, whose father was the first American killed by ISIS in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2016.
«I was 15 when my dad was killed,» Hailey Dayton told Fox from her home in Florida. «I saw six guys in Navy white step out of the van. I got so excited because I thought my dad came back to surprise us. I remember opening the door, huge smile on my face, and I was looking at the men, trying to find my dad and I didn’t find, I didn’t see him, but instead I saw six guys with tears in their eyes.»
The Biden Justice Department denied requests to distribute the Lafarge funds while the case was still pending before a French Court. Lafarge was found guilty by that court in April. In February, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., pressed then-Attorney General Pam Bondi on when the DOJ planned to release the funds to the families.
«In February 2025, my colleagues and I sent you a letter urging the department to review the petitions for remission submitted by the families of those fallen service members, including several of my constituents. The previous administration ignored these victims and our requests and left their petitions unresolved,» Biggs asked Bondi during a Congressional hearing.
«Congressman, we are aware of that and we’re committed to doing everything we can to support the victims and work with you. Thank you for that question,» Bondi replied. That was more than a year ago and the DOJ has still not distributed the compensation funds.
Now the plaintiffs, most of them military families, say the decision to release the funds rests with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
«I don’t know why. I don’t know why they’re ignoring us. To me, it feels like being a pawn. My dad, he went in when he was 19, he served 23 years,» Dayton, the Gol Star daughter of Chief Petty Officer Scott Dayton, said.
«To the current Department of Justice, I would, say, make things right.»
Lindsey Stacy, who says she and her family have difficulty making ends meet given Kenton Stacy’s severe injuries, added, «There’s a lot of families out there that could benefit from these funds. I mean, it’s been almost nine years. It would be nice to, you know, for justice to be served.»
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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«They have been convicted recently in their own country, guilty. It has been a long battle, but it’d be nice just for it to come to an end, get some closure and be able to just take care of our family,» she added. «I mean he made a huge sacrifice for our country and it would just be nice if they’d stand right by us and all the other co-plaintiffs.»
«We can think of no group of people who are more worthy of receiving compensation from that victim’s compensation fund than these families who lost a son, lost a brother, lost a husband, and they deserve to be treated better by the United States of America,» Toral, who continues to press his clients’ case said in an interview ahead of Memorial Day Weekend.
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The Department of Justice, which controls the $777 million dollars in penalties forfeited by Lafarge, issued the following statement:
«The Department is committed to compensating all victims to the maximum extent permitted by law. While we cannot comment on a pending matter, the Department will always engage in the appropriate process to evaluate claims and ensure that our brave servicemembers receive any amount of compensation to which they are entitled.»
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