{"id":2906,"date":"2007-11-11T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/lawyers_top_dogs_of_the_professional-managerial_classes_shoeshine_boys_to_the_ruling_elite_--_let_them_have_their_pathetic_expense_account_meals.html"},"modified":"2007-11-11T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T15:57:31","slug":"lawyers_top_dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/lawyers_top_dog.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers: Top Dogs Of The Professional-Managerial Classes, Shoeshine Boys To The Ruling Elite &#8212; Let Them Have Their Pathetic Expense Account Meals!*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTC insurance fund was meant to evade costly trials and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11112007\/news\/regionalnews\/wtc_wine_dining_363126.htm\">out-of-control lawyers&#8217; fees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lawyers and executives for the $1 billion World Trade Center insurance fund &#8212; who&#8217;ve already spent more than $100 million in overhead and legal fees &#8212; are also wining and dining with money meant for sick 9\/11 responders, records show.<\/p>\n<p>Invoices obtained by The Post show that high-paid lawyers and employees of the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a nonprofit governed by Mayor Bloomberg appointees, have tapped the federal fund for cocktails and gourmet dinners.<\/p>\n<p>After a court hearing in Manhattan last year, when the city argued unsuccessfully to dismiss all claims by 9\/11 responders, a top lawyer for the fund filed an expense report totaling $1,390 for &#8220;drinks and dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The June 23, 2006, tab submitted by Margaret Warner of the Washington, D.C., firm McDermott, Will &#038; Emery included $138 for &#8220;cocktails&#8221; for six at Sir Harry&#8217;s, a plush bar inside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The dimly lit lounge, decorated with antique oil paintings, serves $8 Budweisers and highballs for $12 and up.<\/p>\n<p>Warner billed another $342 to spend the night at the luxe Park Avenue hotel.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*But in doing so, mock them ruthlessly . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTC insurance fund was meant to evade costly trials and out-of-control lawyers&#8217; fees: Lawyers and executives for the $1 billion World Trade Center insurance fund &#8212; who&#8217;ve already spent more than $100 million in overhead and legal fees &#8212; are also wining and dining with money meant for sick 9\/11 responders, records show. Invoices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}