{"id":1543,"date":"2006-09-11T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/united_we_stand.html"},"modified":"2006-09-11T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T18:49:05","slug":"united_we_stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/united_we_stand.html","title":{"rendered":"United We Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post follows up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/is_the_city_usi.html\">a lawyer&#8217;s earlier allegation<\/a> that the city is using 9\/11 recovery funds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/city_20m_chutzpah_demand_regionalnews_susan_edelman____and_carl_campanile.htm\">to fight the claims of sick recovery and rescue workers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city wants to dip into a $1 billion federal fund to cover its $20 million in legal costs so far in fighting the claims of ill 9\/11 workers, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The city Law Department has sent an invoice to the WTC Captive Insurance Co., which manages the $1 billion insurance fund Congress created to cover claims from the World Trade Center cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>The company, run by Bloomberg administration officials, has refused to pay a single sick Ground Zero worker, but has already spent more than $27 million on private lawyers. The new $20 million bill is for city lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>About 6,000 rescue and recovery workers have filed claims against the city, the Port Authority, developer Larry Silverstein and many contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Becker, chief of the Law Department&#8217;s WTC unit, said the $20 million covers &#8220;lawyers&#8217; time and expenses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post follows up on a lawyer&#8217;s earlier allegation that the city is using 9\/11 recovery funds to fight the claims of sick recovery and rescue workers: The city wants to dip into a $1 billion federal fund to cover its $20 million in legal costs so far in fighting the claims of ill 9\/11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}