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Deborah Greenspan is a leading advisor on mass claims strategy and resolution. Her practice focuses on class actions, mass claims, dispute resolution, insurance recovery, and mass tort bankruptcy. She has extensive experience in mass products liability matters, class actions, analysis of damages and future liability exposure, insurance recovery, alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), claims evaluation and dispute analysis, settlement distribution design and implementation, claims management and risk analysis.

Deborah has been appointed by judges and government institutions to serve as a Special Master. She served as the court-appointed Special Master responsible for developing and implementing a settlement program to distribute funds to over 100,000 Vietnam veterans. She served as the Deputy Special Master for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, and she was responsible for conceiving the policies and for facilitating the distribution of over $9 billion to victims of the September 11 attacks. She currently serves as the Special Master in the Flint Water Cases litigation.

Deborah has extensive experience in private mediation, and she is currently the Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

Fredric (Rick) Brooks represents clients in the evaluation, litigation, and resolution of complex disputes and in the negotiation, design, and implementation of large settlements. He focuses his practice on products liability, mass tort bankruptcies, and class actions.

Rick serves as a neutral in the settlement and resolution of complex disputes, and has designed and administered numerous large claims processes.

• Served as a deputy to the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001
• Worked for the Office of the Special Master of the re-opened September 11th Victim Compensation Fund
• Worked on the successful adjudication and resolution of claims in settlements of significant class actions in cases involving areas such as commercial litigation and discrimination claims brought by police officers

Rick was previously a partner with a well-regarded complex dispute resolution firm where he worked on the successful resolution of numerous large class actions and mass tort matters, both as counsel to clients involved in complex litigation and as a neutral in the settlement and resolution of such matters. He also served in the U.S. Department of Justice as a Special Attorney acting as a Deputy to the Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. In that role, he assisted in the drafting of the federal regulations to govern the original Fund, served as a Hearing Officer for award and eligibility hearings, and conducted extensive public outreach.

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Enterprise reporter focusing on history, the social sciences, and culture.Education: Southern Illinois University, BS in journalism; University of Pittsburgh, MFA in EnglishMichael Rosenwald is an enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2004, he was a reporter at The Boston Globe. He has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire, The Economist and the Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, Rosenwald was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in feature writing. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and the University of Pittsburgh.Honors & Awards: 

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Kenneth Feinberg to deliver keynote address at Executive Compensation Conference

Feb 18, 2010

Kenneth Feinberg, better known as President Obama’s executive pay czar, will deliver the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference Feb. 26 at the Vanderbilt Law School. The lecture, scheduled for noon in Flynn Auditorium, is free and open to the public.

• More information on Kenneth Feinberg’s lecture
• Complete Executive Compensation Conference schedule

Feinberg’s official title is special master for executive pay for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before his appointment to oversee the controversial program, Feinberg served the federal government as special master for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which distributed nearly $7 billion to more than 5,000 victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

A partner in Feinberg Rosen, a New York firm he founded in 1993, he has helped resolve a number of high-profile cases. A graduate of NYU law school, he served as the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s chief of staff in the 1970s. He was honored by National Law Journal as “Lawyer of the Year” in 2004.

The Executive Compensation Conference is co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law School’s Law and Business Program.

 https://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/21/9_11_widow_sues_the_bush

9-11 Widow Sues the Bush Administration for Intelligence Failures

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The Incredible Real Life Advocates Who Inspired Netflix's New Film Worth

Kenneth Feinberg and Charles Wolf fought to shape the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund for the better.

By Abigail Covington

Sep 3, 2021

 

On the surface, Netflix’s new film, Worth, is about the creation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a deal authorized by congress that offered payments to families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks in exchange for their agreement to not sue the airlines. But it’s not a straightforward retelling. Rather than provide a broad overview of the fund’s genesis, the film zeroes in on the story of two real-life characters: Kenneth Feinberg, the special master of the fund, and Charles Wolf, a 9/11 widow and vocal critic of the program. 

 

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Worth’s narrative thrust comes from these two men’s differing perspectives on the value of a life. For Feinberg, played masterfully by Michael Keaton, it’s about money. It has to be. His job is to figure out how much to pay each victim’s surviving loved ones. For Wolf, who gets an emotional embodiment from Stanley Tucci, it’s about justice. Wolf launches a website and organizes a separate group that demands changes to the fund’s compensation structure. He challenges Feinberg to see beyond the numbers. Curiously, they find common ground in their mutual love of opera.

Here’s everything you might be wondering about the two men at the center of Worth’s true story.

Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci as Kenneth Feinberg and Charles Wolf.

Kenneth Feinberg

Feinberg was born and raised just outside of Boston in Brockton, Massachusetts. His father, the son of eastern European immigrants, sold tires while his mother, a bookkeeper, looked after Feinberg and his two siblings. Feinberg originally wanted to be an actor but, at the behest of his father, but decided to go to law school in pursuit of a more stable career. After earning his J.D. from NYU in 1970, Feinberg worked as Senator Ted Kennedy’s Chief of Staff. To this day, he remains an adamant admirer of the Kennedys. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation from when he was unanimously elected in 2009 until 2017.

Though he didn’t know it at the time, Feinberg’s fate as a victim’s compensation expert was sealed in 1983 when a connection from law school, Judge Jack Weinstein, asked him to stave off an impending class-action lawsuit from a group of Vietnam veterans. At issue was Agent Orange—a noxious herbicide that the U.S. government sprayed across the jungles of north Vietnam and that, 15 years later, was causing cancer and sarcoma in people that were exposed to it. Feinberg’s job was to broker a settlement between the veterans and the chemical manufacturers.

As an Esquire profile of Feinberg detailed, the gulf between the two parties was intimidatingly wide: “The veterans asked for $1.2 billion. The chemical companies made their counteroffer: $25,000, total.” But Feinberg pulled it off at the final hour. “The night before the case would go to trial, he somehow forged a miracle settlement,” wrote Esquire’s Chris Jones. “A fund that would eventually reach $250 million, a record at the time.”

Michael Keaton (R) as Kenneth Feinberg (L).

Feinberg then set up his own law firm in Washington D.C.; on the side, he taught Intro to Torts at various law schools. He was on a train back to the capitol on the morning of September 11th, 2001, when multiple airplanes crashed into the twin towers and the pentagon.

Weeks later, after discovering that Congress had hastily created a September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, he asked Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran who was then a Republican Senator from Nebraska, for an introduction to Attorney General John Ashcroft. Feinberg wanted to oversee the fund. Hagel made the call and Ashcroft appointed Feinberg the special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund without hesitation — mostly because no one else wanted the job.

In the twenty years since, Feinberg has gone on to monopolize the legal market he incidentally invented: the facilitation of compensation for victims of disasters. His small firm, The Feinberg Group, has devised payout programs for victims of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Penn State sexual abuse scandal ,and the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. Feinberg has also authored two books: 2005’s What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 and 2012’s Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval

Now 75 years old, Feinberg hints at no plans of retiring. Just this past spring, his firm was selected to handle the half-billion dollar fund for families of the 346 individuals who were killed in the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 Max airplanes. In the wake of COVID-19, he’s also begun lobbying for the creation of a national office of bereavement, telling NPR’s Scott Simon that, “it's long overdue that national policy take into account the long-term adverse impact of tragedy, both individual and collective.”

In interviews, he often claims to favor pragmatism and strategic thinking, but others that are close to him, like his wife Dede and his business partner Camille Biros, say his compassion and his capacity for empathy have grown as a result of the decades he’s spent navigating the highly charged and emotional terrain of a disaster’s aftermath. In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Feinberg looked back in awe at his unique and unlikely career. It’s certainly not what law school prepared him for, Feinberg said. A degree in Psychology or Divinity, he admits, would’ve been better.

Stanley Tucci (R) as Charles Wolf (L).

Charles Wolf

Wolf was born in Buffalo, New York, but was raised in Indiana after his family relocated. He returned to the Northeast to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology and, after college, moved to Manhattan. He worked for 14 years as a sales rep for Kodak, before leaving to launch a direct-sales business through Amway. A passionate singer, he joined the Village Light Opera Group.

Life changed for Wolf when he met his future wife Katherine in 1988. She was a classically trained pianist from Wales and an accompanist for the Philbeach Society, an amateur opera group in London. They originally linked when the Philbeach Society staged a joint production with the Village Light Opera Group at St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue. “Who is that woman? I’ve got to get to know her!,” Charles recalled saying on the night they were introduced. A year later they were married in Katherine’s native Wales.

12 years later, when Katherine was 40, she was killed in the 9/11 attacks. She had just started a new job as an executive assistant within the financial services firm Marsh & McClennan and the company’s offices were on the 97th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Katherine’s job technically started at 9 a.m. but her boss had recently asked her to come in at 8:30 a.m. instead. When the first plane struck the north tower at 8:46 AM, Katherine had just settled into her desk.

Wolf was in his apartment, less than a mile away, when he heard the boom. He rushed outside and saw plumes of smoke filling the downtown skyline. By the time the second tower fell, he knew he would never see his wife again. According to a profile in the Buffalo News, three days later, during a meeting for the families of those employed by Marsh & McClennan, Wolf stood up and turned to the others in the room and explained that their loved ones were almost certainly killed instantly. “As far as I’m concerned,” he said, “our people were vaporized.”

That meeting ignited Wolf’s spirit for organizing. He quickly involved himself in efforts related to 9/11 survivor’s rights, starting with his campaign to reform the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. His first demand was to extend the timeframe people had to seek medical treatment after the attack in order to qualify for compensation. Thanks to his initial efforts, the period increased from 24 hours to 96 hours, but as the film Worth details, his fight against the fund grew much wider in scope.

After giving the fund his seal of approval and agreeing to join its ranks, Wolf continued his advocacy work on behalf of families of victims of the 9/11 attacks. Years later, when a utilities truck sucked a skeleton out of a manhole near the crash site, Wolf asked then-mayor Bloomberg to restart the search for remains. He provided guidance on the redevelopment of the Ground Zero site and has acted as an ongoing spokesperson for family members of victims during meetings with senators, presidents, and foreign officials.

 

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As recently as 2016, Wolf still lived in the apartment he shared with Katherine. Every so often he visits the 9/11 memorial on Greenwich Street. Each time he does, he revealed to AM New York, he bends over the wall and kisses Katherine’s name. Etched in bronze, it’s the very first name listed under the memorial’s dedication plaque.

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Worth: What Happened to Charles Wolf and Where is He Now?

Jo Craig

2 days ago

The limited release of Netflix’s Worth has recently aired, following Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan in a biographical film about the lawyer Kenneth Feinberg and Charles Wolf. The pair assess the value of life after the 9/11 attacks during the creation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

The emotional biopic has two, leading actors at the helm to tell the tale, but we take a look behind the curtain at what happened to real Charles Wolf and where he is now.

What Happened to Charles Wolf?

Born in Buffalo, New York, Wolf was a devout singer and Kodak sales rep for 14 years. Wolf met his future wife, Katherine, in 1988 and the pair married in Wales.

Sadly, Katherine was killed 12 years later during the 9/11 attacks, after she had started a job as an executive assistant on the 97th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

After the tragic event, Wolf was inspired to advocate for 9/11 survivor’s rights and campaigned for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He pushed for the government to extend the period of time people had to seek medical treatment, and his efforts caused an increase from 24 hours to 96 hours.

Where is Charles Wolf Now?

Uniting with the fund, Wolf continued to be a loyal supporter to the families of the 9/11 victims, and after a skeleton was found underground, Wolf asked Mayor Bloomberg to start another search for remains.

Wolf also assisted in the redevelopment of Ground Zero and has continued to be a spokesperson for the victims’ families during official meetings.

Reports going back a few years stated that Wolf still lived in the same apartment that he lived in with his wife, and he frequently visits the 9/11 memorial where Katherine’s name is etched.

 https://www.amny.com/news/a-911-tour-de-force-it-never-goes-away/

A 9/11 tour de force: ‘It never goes away’

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | “Have you been down there? Have you seen what they’ve done?”

I was speaking on the phone with Charles Wolf. It was 10 days before the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack. As it would turn out, it was also 16 days before last weekend’s bomb blast in Chelsea. (Everything is bookended, it seems, by terrorism these days… .)

No, I admitted to him, I hadn’t really visited the new World Trade Center and the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. I had covered the disaster — I saw one of the mighty towers fall, breathed in the toxic fallout — but haven’t closely covered all the rebuilding and rebirth as the area has risen from the ashes.

“You should come down, I’ll give you the tour,” he said.

I accepted his offer. After all, I was overdue. We planned to meet the next day. …

Charlie has a special and enduring attachment to this part of Lower Manhattan. That’s because he lost his wife, Katherine Susan Wolf, here on 9/11.

I asked him how he was doing emotionally as the anniversary approached. Just the fact that it has now been 15 years, in itself, is amazing.

‘The older you get, the faster time goes,” he reflected.

Katherine was working on the 97th floor of World Trade Center Tower 1 that morning.

The first hijacked jumbo jet hit Tower 1 at 8:46 a.m. Alhough she had a 9 o’clock starting time, she had been going in early, at 8:30 a.m., having just begun a new job as executive assistant to the president of Marsh & McClennan’s e-commerce division.

The 767 came hurtling in at 400 miles per hour, banking left. When the plane hit the building, its impact zone stretched from the 93rd to 99th floor. Wolf, who is a pilot, figures the terrorist at the controls tilted the wings this way on purpose, so as to spread the damage as widely as possible.

“Her desk was four desks from the window,” Wolf recalled of Katherine. “She was vaporized instantaneously…which is a blessing.”

Everyone present in the company’s offices that day perished, nearly 360 people.

Katherine was 40. They had married 12 years earlier, on Sept. 1 — which, coincidentally, was the day I first called Charlie for this column.

“Actually, we got married today – in Swansea, Wales,” he said. “Today would have been our 27th anniversary.”

Wolf, 62, an Amway salesman, has lived on Bleecker St. since the 1970s. A Buffalo native, he took a job with Kodak in New York City because his girlfriend from college lived here. She eventually dumped him for her tennis coach.

He would later meet Katherine at St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Ave. Wolf was a member of the Village Light Opera Group, which performed there, and she was in town with an English troupe that was doing a production at the Village church.

On 9/11, Wolf instinctively knew something was wrong when he heard the first jet flying low over his apartment. He had learned how to fly when he was 20, so he could tell. He went out on his balcony for a better listen.

“It was a twin-engine jet, with the throttles at maximum — like at takeoff,” he recalled thinking. “I could tell it was only 1,000 feet off the ground. I stepped back into my apartment, and that was when I heard the kaboom.”

In his pajamas and bare feet, he ran out onto Thompson St., and someone told him the World Trade Center had been hit.

“I called up the F.B.I.,” Wolf said, “because I knew 911 would be busy. I said, ‘That was a twin-engine — that was deliberate. …’ ”

That phone call was the start of Wolf’s involvement with 9/11 — from dealing with the devastating grief of Katherine’s loss, to joining other family members in advocacy work, ranging from fighting for compensation to the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum to, most recently, rallying behind a bill to allow family members to sue Saudi Arabia, the country from which 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed.

After the W.T.C. fell, Wolf, unlike many others, didn’t tape up missing posters for Katherine.

“I didn’t understand why people were putting them up,” he said, “because I knew where the plane had hit, and I knew she was gone.”

Back on the bike…

I covered the 9/11 attack as a reporter for The Villager.

I remember biking down past St. Vincent’s, where hospital staff were standing on Seventh Ave. in their green scrubs. I paused there with them, and we watched the Twin Towers, sporting gaping holes, as the huge buildings smoked and burned.

I remember watching from the Battery Park City ball fields, as a long sliver of a corner of Tower 2 suddenly just fell away into the sky, as if in slow motion. My view was blocked by Tower 1, so I didn’t immediately realize the first building had collapsed. But soon, an enormous, ugly, roiling green-yellow-brown-and-gray ball of smoke rose over the ball fields’ southern end. It just kept growing and growing in size, rolling toward us.

I remember biking down South St. with a flimsy spray mask on my face — it didn’t even seal around the edges — that I’d gotten at a triage post set up in Tribeca outside the then-Travelers Building. As I pedaled past the old Fulton Fish Market, the air was full of “brown rain.” It was W.T.C. fallout — little fluttering particles of cement, asbestos, glass, yes, probably human bodies, too, and who knows what else? The tan flakes stung my lungs and eyes, but soon my nerve endings just went numb, and I didn’t feel any burning anymore. I pedaled on through the dust-covered streets, trying to edge closer to the W.T.C. … Eventually, though, police corralled me onto a tugboat that evacuated me and a few others to Jersey City. …

The Pit and Point Hero

One night, a few days later, following behind a hard hat and a guy wearing a Department of Corrections jacket, I snuck into Ground Zero. I watched the surreal scene as police officers and others manned a bucket brigade, hoping to dig survivors out of the rubble of The Pit. A doctor there, cynically — though, I suppose, realistically — told me there would be no survivors, but the bucket brigade gave people hope. …

I remember the rescue workers — soon redubbed recovery workers — coming up the West Side Highway in buses at night, past “Point Hero,” outside our office, which was then at Canal St. As I typed up articles about the disaster, people would be out there, cheering the heroes on. I could see their candles flickering yellow in the darkness. … And there was the toxic smell of the burning rubble. And the incredible thin plume of black smoke that hovered over Ground Zero — for was it as long as two weeks?

I recall the shiver of fear I felt for the first couple of days afterward entering Grand Central Station — which I figured was a target, too — to catch the train to work Downtown. But that faded… .

W.T.C. phoenix dove

As for why I hadn’t really been back to the World Trade Center, well, for starters, The Villager doesn’t generally cover that far down into Lower Manhattan. We have a sister paper, Downtown Express, that has covered all the rebuilding in painstaking detail. And, like many New Yorkers, I don’t like to wallow in things — I try to move on. The memories of 9/11 are heavy. That said, again, I gladly accepted Charlie’s invitation to take “the tour.”

After meeting at the impressive new Fulton St. transportation hub, we started with the Oculus, another, far, far grander new transportation hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava. It’s definitely…different. It’s supposed to resemble a dove’s wings. But actually it reminded me of “Prometheus,” the latest “Aliens” movie. Its colossal soaring white ribs made me think of the big, bone-white humanoids from the Ridley Scott sci-fi flick, who, I imagined, would look right at home here.

Steve Cuozzo, writing in the New York Post, said the Oculus and, in fact, much of what has been built down at the former Ground Zero, essentially amounts to a pricey mall. And it’s true — the Oculus is lined with high-end shops. But it’s clearly popular with people — especially tourists, from the looks of it. It’s an impressive structure, and seemingly tailor-made for our new selfie-centric world. Everyone snaps photos of themselves there.

Wolf, who loves the Oculus, said, “It’s totally gorgeous.” In fact, he’s a big booster of the entire new W.T.C. site. “They took lemons and made lemonade,” he said.

I really liked W.T.C. Tower 4, designed by architect Fumihiko Maki, whose special glass “disappears” into the sky and reflects the passing clouds.

There of course is Tower 1, which had been dubbed “The Freedom Tower,” though is no longer called that. I asked Wolf if he likes the tutti-frutti pole atop it, whose colors can be changed — like the top of the Empire State Building — to commemorate a special day or event. He doesn’t think it’s cheesy, though, noting, “We have another icon we can use.”

Fight for families’ rights

Wolf formerly was heavily involved in fighting for the rights of victims’ family members. In 2002, he set up a Web site, FixTheFund.org, which pushed to extend the timeframe that people had to seek medical treatment after the attack and still qualify for compensation; in the end, the period was lengthened from 24 hours to 96 hours.

Family members “were being portrayed as greedy,” Wolf recalled. “People were seeing the Victims Compensation Fund as charity — not rightfully deserved.”

He also advocated for restarting the search for victims’ remains after a Con Ed vacuum truck sucked a skeleton out of a manhole near the W.T.C. Wolf met with Bloomberg administration officials, who assured him the search would recommence.

“I just knew, if there was one body, there would be more,” he said. Wolf urged the city to “look under the streets,” since the destroyed area had been repaved to allow construction vehicles better access. In the end, the Bloomberg administration spent $60 million on additional searching.

Wolf and other family members also protested outside a White House Holiday Dinner to demand that a bill to appoint a national intelligence director be passed.

The director was needed, Wolf said, since, “If the F.B.I. and C.I.A. had been talking to one another [before 9/11], they would have been able to find out was going on.”

More recently, last year, Wolf testified before the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, advocating for funding to keep the annual Tribute in Light display proudly beaming up to the heavens during the anniversary.

‘Reflecting Absence’

Wolf led me through the small new Liberty Park, at the south end of the site. The battered sculpture “The Sphere,” by Fritz Koenig, which once anchored the W.T.C. plaza, will be brought back here.

“It does not belong on the memorial plaza,” he said of the iconic artwork.

Next, it was on to the memorial plaza, “Reflecting Absence,” with its two waterfalls on the exact footprints of the Twin Towers. Wolf, who is an excellent docent of the entire site, explained that the white swamp oaks that dot the memorial, once grown, “will form a cathedral-like canopy” overhead.

Around the memorial ringing the Tower 2 waterfall are the names of all the first responders — including the staggering 343 firefighters — who died on 9/11, covering nearly two full sides of the square. Also around this pool are the victims of Flight 93, who managed to down their plane in Shanksville, Pa., before it could crash into its intended target, possibly the White House, Wolf said.

‘Let’s roll!’

I looked for Mark Bingham’s name, and eventually found it. A burly gay rugby player, he was one of the group of passengers who — with a cry of “Let’s roll!” — stormed Flight 93’s cockpit, forcing the terrorists to crash the plane before it could strike the capitol. I remembered interviewing Bingham’s mother, Alice Hoagland, a former flight attendant, on the phone about his heroism, and interviewing his roommate in Chelsea.

“These are the largest manmade waterfalls in the world,” Wolf said, as we made our way around the twin squares.

A woman placing flowers at the memorial asked Wolf to shoot her photo. Her brother-in-law, Gerard Baptiste, was one of 10 firefighters from Engine 33, on Great Jones St. in Noho, who died responding to the disaster.

“I lost my wife,” Wolf said, smiling gently, before snapping her picture.

The names around the Tower 1 waterfall memorial are packed together more densely, Wolf explained, since there were more fatalities in that building.

“No one got out above the 91st floor,” he said.

Charlie showed me Katherine’s name.

“That’s my wife. … I always give her a kiss,” he said, bending over and touching his lips to her name etched in the bronze.

As for why hers is the first name listed among the victims of Tower 1 — the memorial’s names are not listed alphabetically — it would seem to be an acknowledgment of Wolf’s leading role as a family member. However, he said it wasn’t his doing.

“They said, ‘Where do you want her?’ ” he recalled. “I said, ‘Wherever you want.’ ”

Press and politicians

I looked for the name of someone I knew, Doug Gardner. I knew him as a great hoops player and genuinely nice guy in the annual Fire Island Basketball Tournament, which I had started playing in when I worked on the Fire Island News as a young reporter. I actually didn’t know until 9/11 that Doug had been a top executive at Cantor Fitzgerald. I found his name, Douglas Benjamin Gardner, on the southeast corner of the Tower 1 memorial, grouped with the other Cantor execs. On this 9/11, a veteran ball player from the tournament wrote his memories of Doug and sent them out on the group e-mail list. I attached a photo I took of Doug’s name on the memorial, then hit “reply all.”

On Sept. 11, 2016, at the “Reflecting Absence” memorial, looking out over the waterfall on the former site of W.T.C. 1, from the southeast corner where the names of Cantor Fitzgerald executives are listed. Cantor lost 658 people in the attack, the largest toll of any company. Photo by Lincoln Anderson

On the corner diagonally across the Tower 1 pool from there is the name of Berry Berenson Perkins, the wife of Anthony Perkins, of “Psycho” fame. After 9/11, the late Jerry Tallmer wrote a column for The Villager about how he had interviewed her, and how enraged he was at the terrorists who had killed her. The memorial’s corners seemed to be powerful spots.

Go-to media guy

Affable, upbeat and articulate, Wolf has been one of the go-to 9/11 family members for the media.

“I’ve been on every television station in the city,” he told me. “I’ve been in every newspaper up and down the East Coast. … The week that bin Laden was killed, I did 46 press interviews.”

He’s also met all the politicians on their visits to the W.T.C. site over the years. After the memorial’s dedication in September 2011, he was particularly moved when former Governor George Pataki extended himself to him.

“Pataki put his arm around my shoulder and said, ‘C’mon, Charles, let’s go look at Katherine’s name.’ He’s a great guy.”

President Obama met with family members in May 2014 when the 9/11 museum was dedicated. Three years earlier, Obama had come to Lower Manhattan to meet with Wolf and other family members after Osama bin Laden was killed. I had to press Wolf, who is a registered Republican, to get his thoughts on Obama.

“His words to the group were very sober, not for media consumption,” he said, adding, “Yeah, he got it right.”

Chuck was the man

But he does like one Democrat immensely, Chuck Schumer.

“If we needed help, Senator Schumer was always right there,” he said.

Hillary Clinton, as a senator, on the other hand, he felt was always slower to respond.

“Hillary would wait two weeks — maybe testing the waters, checking the political winds,” he said. “We don’t know. That’s her style.”

At the same time, he acknowledged, “Hillary, when you talk to her one-on-one, she is focused on you.”

Wolf fondly recalled one time when 9/11 family members were holding a news conference on the Upper East Side, but ABC News couldn’t get its van there on time. Schumer told Wolf to hop into his car with him and they would drive over to ABC’s studios on the West Side and film a segment there.

“We were going through Central Park and Schumer told his driver, ‘Put your red light on.’ He put the red light on his dashboard,” Wolf recalled.

Into the museum

I had already spent a few hours touring the W.T.C. site with Wolf, but he persuaded me to pop into the 9/11 museum “for just 15 minutes.” Fifteen minutes turned into three hours — and could have easily been more, if we didn’t have to leave at closing time.

There’s so much to see and absorb, from an exposed portion of the massive W.T.C. slurry wall — which keeps the Hudson River from flooding the landfilled site — to a section of the W.T.C. antenna — up close, it’s thicker than I would have imagined.

The 9/11 museum features an exposed section of the massive World Trade Center slurry wall, which keeps the Hudson River from flooding the area, which is built on landfill. Looking like giant pushpins, the tiebacks are enormous, long bolts that anchor the wall in place. At right is the final beam removed from The Pit of the destroyed W.T.C., inscribed with the huge number of firefighters, 343, who died in the catastrophic attack. Photo by Tequila Minsky

There is the destroyed Ladder 3 fire truck from the firehouse at 108 E. 13th St., which lost 12 men on Sept. 11, 2001. The rig’s ladder, melted in the inferno, lies drooped over the front cab in a sideways “S,” like a squiggle of wet spaghetti.

At one point, Wolf was gazing at a photo of a man who jumped from one of the top floors of one of the towers.

“These people did not commit suicide,” he stressed. “They had no choice. They weren’t going to survive — just [wanted to] go faster, less painfully. I just thank God that my wife didn’t have to make that choice,” he said, again stating his belief that his wife was killed instantly.

‘Hugs are wonderful’

A tourist from Florida overhead Wolf and spontaneously embraced him, breaking out in tears.

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” she said, as she hugged him.

Wolf told the couple to go by Katherine’s name on the memorial and “give her a kiss.”

“It felt good. Hugs are wonderful,” he said afterward. A reiki patient and practitioner, he firmly believes in the healing power of touch.

Another photo showed a woman holding down her skirt as she leaped off Tower 1 somewhere around the 100th floor.

“That’s what Katherine would have done,” he noted.

Yet, it wasn’t her, rather a woman from Cantor Fitzgerald, he had been told. Plus, Katherine was wearing different clothes, a business suit, he said. Somehow, though, he had felt compelled to ask.

One alcove in the museum has audio recordings from the doomed Flight 93. I was amazed at the bravery, especially of several women passengers, who left final messages for their loved ones. Their voices were mostly calm and unwavering, even as they knew they probably wouldn’t survive.

Emotional sucker punch

Wolf suddenly teared up after watching a screen showing a loop of the Budweiser 9/11 Super Bowl XXXVI ad. Only aired once, the team of Clydesdales trot to within view of the empty W.T.C. site, then kneel in silent respect.

“Sometimes you get sucker-punched,” he said. “I mean, I love animals. …”

Understanding so intimately the feelings that can overwhelm a person in this sort of space, Wolf said it was his idea to advocate for a way to duck out quickly, if needed. His suggestion was accepted.

“Along the way, there are places to exit early, if it’s too much for you,” he explained. “They call them ‘emotional escape routes.’ ”

Down to bedrock

Finally, we arrived at the room where all the victims’ photos are displayed, entirely covering the walls from floor to ceiling. Looking at the sheer number of faces, the magnitude of the loss sunk in for me once again.

“This is what makes it a memorial,” he said.

The photo of Katherine is there, “a Welsh redhead,” Wolf said fondly. He tapped her image on a touchscreen. We then entered another room. Inside, a glass floor floats over bedrock — the very bottom of the former W.T.C. site. Photos of Katherine alone and with Charlie projected onto a wall with a brief text. In turn, I called up my friend Doug on the touchscreen, and was glad to see that his brief bio includes that he was a basketball player.

As the museum was closing, we exited up the long ramp to the recorded music of bagpipes, which seemed fitting. Wolf paused to chat with security guard Bridget Mills.

“God bless you, that you came here. A lot of New Yorkers don’t even come to the plaza,” she said, referring to the outdoor memorial, which is free. “I’m spiritual, and I feel a spirituality here,” she added.

One other thing about the museum, Wolf had explained to me earlier: After some debate, the decision ultimately was made to include photos of the 19 terrorist hijackers. But their images are shown very small — about the size of baseball cards — and they are positioned at knee level. The viewer is “looking down on them,” Wolf noted.

Yet, after watching a video showing police selflessly helping people flee from the burning Towers, Wolf stressed the need to stop stereotyping — of any sort. Period.

“It’s just too bad that the bad apples are getting all the attention,” he said. “People have to stop painting all cops as bad, painting all Muslims as bad.”

‘This time was tough’

On Sept. 11, I caught up with Wolf on his cell phone after he had returned from a Cantor Fitzgerald memorial event he had been invited to this year for the first time. He was back up on Bleecker St., downing some spicy dumplings and sesame noodles at Uncle Ted’s.

Asked how this 15th anniversary of 9/11 had compared to others, Wolf said, though it’s gotten less painful as the years go by, this one “was very rough. I was getting angry and I cried,” he said. “Honestly, it’s probably good, the emotion is coming out.

“The last time I really had a tough year was 2009,” he reflected. “Most of the time when the bells ring, I’m O.K., but this time it ripped right through me.”

At the memorial, a bell is solemnly rung twice, marking the time each jet hit the towers.

He said he had gotten “some wonderful hugs” from people at the ceremony, including, again, Pataki (who may well have a future in reiki).

Wolf, who is Episcopalian, also gave two scriptural readings — one from Jeremiah, another from Timothy — at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the anniversary.

As for trying to move on, Wolf said his father, who lost his own wife, Wolf’s stepmother, confided to him, “It never goes away.”

Wolf said he did date someone starting in 2003 for a few years, but she broke up with him. Part of the reason they split, he feels, was because he came down with 9/11-related symptoms from the toxic air that wafted over the Village after the attack.

“That stuff stayed in my body — I guess, because of my emotional state,” he said. “I couldn’t climb up stairs. At one point I could barely walk a block.”

Using alternative therapies, like acupuncture and homeopathy, though, Wolf began to feel better.

“I’m trying to get back in the dating world,” he said. “It’s not easy. You gotta start from scratch.”

Chelsea — ‘so minor’

Less than a week after this year’s 9/11 anniversary, New York was rocked by another terrorist attack, when a bomb blew up on W. 23rd St. in Chelsea this past Saturday night, injuring 29 people. Luckily, no one was killed or seriously injured.

Sunday night, I asked Wolf, as a 9/11 family member, for his reaction.

“Anytime this kind of stuff happens, you get a little bit of ‘Oh, gosh’ — thankful you’re not there, thankful you didn’t get hurt,” he said.

However, he added, “This is so minor compared to what happened [on 9/11]. But there are still people out there that want to kill us.

“After what I’ve been through — you were there, you saw it,” he told me, “this is nothing compared to that. I’ve been through the mill. I’m still here.”

I had been expecting a different response from him, but I think I understood where he was coming from. Going on the tour of the W.T.C. site with Wolf brought me back to those wrenching days of 9/11, to a disaster on an epic, world-changing scale, the likes of which we had never seen.

I asked Wolf again on Monday night for his thoughts, after the alleged Chelsea bomber had now been arrested and linked to another blast. But his view had not changed.

“It’s terrorism, but nothing compared to 9/11,” he said. “No deaths, 29 injuries, with the injured out of the hospital the same night, and a small amount of property damage.

“This is small potatoes,” he said. “The media wants to gin it up.”

Asked if anyone from the media had called him for comment about it, he said, “You did!”

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Editor in Chief & Publisher of The Village Sun

Lincoln Anderson is the editor in chief and publisher of The Village Sun, a new Downtown Manhattan online community newspaper that launched last November.  He was previously the editor in chief of The Villager newspaper for 20 years. Under his editorship, The Villager was named three times as New York State’s best weekly paper in by New York Press Association (2001, 2004 and 2005); and twice named first place Writer of the Year. Lincoln was also first place from the National Newspaper Association for Best Breaking News Story (Non-Daily Division) for his coverage of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Lincoln is a community journalist believing that even New York City’s roots are in the community.  Former city councilmember and V.I.D.’er Miriam Friedlander told him, “You never left the community.” At first he didn’t exactly understand what she meant, but now he does.

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Founded in 1957, Village Independent Democrats is one of the oldest reform political clubs in New York City.  For decades, VID has worked to reform city and state politics to ensure that we have the most progressive political leaders, judges, and policies.

VID meets on the second Thursday of every month, from 6:30pm to 9pm, in Lenox Health Greenwich Village, 200 West 13th Street.

Read more about the history of our change-making club in these two accounts by longtime VID members by clicking here. 

For a list of our officers, click here.

2021 VID Officers

Co-Presidents
Mar Fitzgerald
Cameron Krause

Female District Leader
Jennifer Hoppe

Vice Presidents
Lauren Esposito
Jonathan Geballe
Patricia Laraia

Treasurer
David Saperstein

Recording Secretary
Kathy Slawinski

Corresponding Secretaries
Melissa Carty
Ed Yutkowitz 

2021 Executive Committee

Keen Berger
Frieda Bradlow
Chloe Chik
Caroline Donahue
Susan Gottesman
Nadine Hoffmann
Judith Jacobson
Linda Jacobson
Nathaniel Johnson
Irene Kaufman
Sara Kimbell
Livvie Mann
Alec Pruchnicki
Lois Rakoff
Annelie Roding

Immediate Past President
David Siffert

Campaign Committee Chair
Anthony Hoffmann

For a list of our elected officials, click here.

Federal
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Congressmember Jerrold Nadler
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney

State
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Hochul
Attorney General Letitia James
Comptroller Thomas Dinapoli
State Senator Brad Hoylman
Assemblymember Deborah Glick
State Committeemember Rachel Lavine
State Committeemember Benjamin Yee

City
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Comptroller Scott Stringer
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
District Attorney Cyrus Vance
Councilmember (District 3) and Speaker Corey Johnson
Councilmember (District 2) Carlina Rivera 
Councilmember (District 1) Margaret Chin

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Charles G. Wolf, Director

Charles G. Wolf was elected as a Director on the Grand Council on October 23, 2020, at the 2020 virtual Grand Chapter session.

Charles joined Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity in Spring 1974 when he was initiated into the Epsilon Nu Chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. Charles graduated from RIT in May 1978 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Photographic Marketing Management.

Following graduation, Charles went to work for Eastman Kodak as a Technical Sales Representative in Kodak’s Professional Photography Division.  After nine months of accelerated training at Kodak’s Marketing Education Center in Rochester, NY, Charles was assigned a New York City territory in Manhattan’s “Photo District.”

In the early-1990s, Charles went to work for Tiger Information Systems in New York City as an information systems technical support specialist in New York City law firms. During this time, Charles’ new British bride, Katherine, joined him in building a “second-gig,” part-time sales and marketing business with Amway Corporation.

In early 2001, after a killing one block from his home, Charles was asked to chair a Greenwich Village business and resident neighborhood association.  He orchestrated the neighborhood’s approval to bring in the Guardian Angles to patrol the streets to drive out the drug dealers responsible for the killing, and otherwise intimidating the neighborhood. After 9/11, this action spurred newly-elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg to initiate a city-wide quality-of-life program.

On August 27, 2001, Katherine, who also worked full-time, took a new job with Marsh & McLennan on the 97^thFloor of One World Trade Center.  Katherine was killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Following the 9/11 attacks, Charles became a major 9/11 activist, successfully achieving changes to several key post-9/11 issues and developments, such as: (1) convincing the Special Master to change the way he ran the September 11^thVictim Compensation Fund, resulting in its congressionally-acclaimed success; (2) convincing New York Governor Pataki to cancel plans to build a political museum within feet of the National September 11 Memorial; (3) in 2006, successfully lobbying Mayor Bloomberg to resume the search for 9/11 remains; (4) during the ten years of its development and construction, advocating for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum; (5) in 2016, with others, successfully lobbying the United States Senate to override a presidential veto so the 9/11 families could sue a foreign country for funding the 9/11 attacks; and, (6) in 2018, again, with others, lobbing the Senate to pass, by a 100-0 vote, a resolution encouraging the declassification of 9/11-related documents.

Charles initially was elected to the Grand Council in 2011 as the Second Vice Consul, was elected again in 2013 as a Member-at-Large, and again in 2016 and 2018 as Second Vice Consul as most recently in 2020 as a Director. Charles is a Parliamentarian, which he puts to use for ΤΕΦ.

Charles was a professional photographer at the age of 18 and still enjoys photography.  He earned his private pilot’s license in 1975, loves sailing, studies wine, and loves good food.  Charles lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.

https://tep.org/tsmith/

Timothy A. Smith, Executive Director

Tim Smith was named Executive Director on December 21, 2018 after an extensive recruitment and interview process. Tim will serve as the Fraternity’s first Executive Director since 2011.

Tim Smith was previously elected International Consul (Chairman, President & CEO) of the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc., on July 23, 2016 at the Grand Chapter sessions and Convention in Orlando, Florida.

Tim joined the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity in the Fall of 1993 when he was initiated into the Epsilon Iota Chapter at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. Tim would graduate from RPI in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting Systems and in 1999 with a Master of Business Administration degree specializing in New Product Development.

Tim served the Epsilon Iota Alumni Association as it’s Chancellor from 2000 to 2003 and remained on its board of directors in various roles until 2014, when he was elected to the position of Director Emeritus.

Tim has been active with the National Fraternity since October 2007 when he was elected as the Interim Consul at an impromptu Grand Chapter meeting in Camden, New Jersey. Since then he has served on the Grand Council as an alumnus member-at-large and as a two-time International Tribune (Secretary).

At the annual meeting of the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) in 2020, Tim was re-elected to serve on the NIC Governing Council as the Fraternity Growth Accelerator representative for his third term. The NIC Governing Council is the board of directors of the NIC that sets policy and direction for its more than 55 member fraternal organizations.

Tim was awarded the Michael C.C. Lilienfeld Distinguished Alumnus award at the 2018 Grand Chapter and Convention for his many years of service to the fraternity, especially as Consul from 2016 – 2018. He was also recognized by the TEP Foundation, Inc. with a special award for service to the Foundation in 2018. Lastly, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Award for his service to the Fraternity at the 2013 Grand Chapter and Convention in Washington, DC.

Tim served on the Board of Directors of the TEP Foundation, Inc, the 501(c)(3) charitable arm of the fraternity serving as its Secretary from 2013 to 2016.

Tim is also very involved with the Free & Accepted Masons having most recently served as the District Deputy Grand Master of the Albany & Rensselaer-Schenectady Districts within the Grand Lodge of the State of New York from 2014 to 2016. Tim now serves on the Grand Lodge of New York committee for Leadership and Educational Services where he trains future Grand Lodge leadership.

In his spare time Tim enjoys traveling having visited over 50 countries on 5 continents. Tim is an avid Formula One race fan and enjoys watching the Buffalo Bills during the fall football season. On the rare occasion he may get, he enjoys playing pub trivia with his friends and has been nicknamed “El Presidente” for his knowledge of Presidential trivia.

Tim was honored and humbled to be named the Executive Director of ΤΕΦ to help it continue to grow after the organizations recent accomplishments. He looks forward to contributing to the future of the fraternity so that it may continue on for another 110 years.

Charles G. Wolf

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• Second Vice President (Vice Consul)

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  Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity

  Dates EmployedJul 2016 – Present

  Employment Duration5 yrs 3 mos

  LocationGreater New York City Area

  Second Vice Consul (Vice President), the prospective chairman of the Governance Committee, and Parliamentarian.
• Owner & CEO

  Company Name

  Wolf International, an independent Amway business

  Dates EmployedJan 1972 – Present

  Employment Duration49 yrs 9 mos

  LocationGreater New York City Area

  As an Amway Business Owner (or "Distributor"), I help ambitious individuals develop supplemental income with their own side-business promoting and marketing Amway's exclusive, high-quality products --- products that are available only through Amway Distributors. Amway Corporation is the number one direct selling company in the world.
  
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Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc.

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My duties as Third Vice Consul (3rd Vice President) included being the parliamentarian for the board of directors, and directing the governance, management, organizational structure, long range planning, marketing, publicity, and public relations for the national organization of a 102 year-old fraternity.

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  Dates EmployedNov 2007 – May 2009

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  LocationNew York, NY

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Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

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Appointed by then-Chairman of Community Board 1, and LMDC Board Member Madelyn Wils to provide a balanced and thoughtful view to this advisory council that consisted of 9/11 victims' family members who had taken a leading role in advocating issues pertaining to the 9/11 attacks.

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BAMRA - Bleecker Area Merchants'& Residents' Association

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Served as volunteer head of a community organization of businesses and residents. Led the effort to research the idea, and mobilize this liberally-minded neighborhood to vote to bring in the Guardian Angels to help drive drug dealers out our neighborhood. This action ignited a major immediate response from the New York City Police Department, and later, a quality of life initiative by Mayor Bloomberg for the entire city of New York. …

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Created and ran an advocacy group, successfully lobbying Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the September 11 Victims' Compensation Fund, to change the way he ran the Fund. Those changes resulted in more than 97% of the 9/11 Families applying to the Fund instead of suing. That success was instrumental in paving the way for Congress to reopen the VCF for the first responders and rescue workers. …

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  Dates EmployedFeb 1978 – Sep 1992

  Employment Duration14 yrs 8 mos

  LocationNew York, NY

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    Dates Employed1986 – 1988

    Employment Duration2 yrs

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    Created the Marketing Department for Village Light Opera Group, including developing their first computerized mailing list. Rebuilt the audience and began the Village Light Opera Guild.

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Hey

CARP thanking me for the info just won't do anymore. However thank you
for acknowledging the fact that you know I am still breathing and mad
as hell but at least still having a little fun politicking against all
the smiling bastards who screw us all. Just so ya know Michelle. I am
over fifty. I consider the possiblity of a heart attack as something
serious that should not be ignored. By the same logic your Advocacy
Team should not ignore the fact that I am considering suing CARP. If
your people do not understand why, talk to the people I have talked to
in your offices in the past. Somebody named Sky would be a good place
to start. Then perhaps you should call the nasty cop Dean Buzza at
IMET. Ask him if I didn't sound as serious as a heart attack last week
when I demanded that he get off his ass and act within the scope of
his employment. Crooked cops who talk tough don't scare me a bit. If
the people who advise the over fifty folks were truly wise you would
not waste my precious time anytime and call me ASAP before i embarass
you out of your business. In case you haven't figured it out I am
protecting your rights and interests too. We should be on the same
side of this battle against the rampant public corruption that Stevey
boy Harper lamented about in order to get elected for the benefit of
his buddy George W. Bush. the only true thing that Franky Boy McKenna
ever said was that Harper was a lapdog for Bush and he said in rally
of the liberal kissarses wanting to getting their big bad old buddy
Rotten Ralphie Goodale reelected to sit in the very wicked 38th
Parliament.

Here is my number 506 434 1379 This time please do not allow the
person who calls me to play dumb. That only serves to piss me off and
I do not want my blood pressure up any higher. Delay me or deny me if
you wish but know this. Before I summons CARP to court I will send
your lawyers the very same material that New Brunswick Securities
Commission just bounced back to me . Lets just say I am very curious
to see if a copy of a wiretap tape will give your lawyers a stroke and
finally make them see the light. One of your lawyers if he is truly a
clever camper would ask Mr. Emerson why he quit Rogers Media long
after he and I had a long talk but just before I head to court. I
would be greatly interested in his response.I already know he is a
liar I just want someone to witness fast I can prove it. There is no
denying that I can be as mean as snake. That comes with old age N'est
Pas? To put it simply I have no time for Bullshit anymore. Methinks we
should be friends not foes. What say you?

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

Michelle Taylor wrote:

Subject: RE: Cya'll in Federal Court
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:30:18 -0500
From: "Michelle Taylor"
To: Dear Mr. Amos:

Thank you for forwarding this mesage to CARP, Canada's Association for
the Fifty-Plus.

Regards,

CARP Advocacy Team

-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:55 PMTo: agoracosmopolite@on.aibn.com;
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Subject: Re: Cya'll in Federal Court

Hey Mr. Stokes
Thanks for the suggestion. As you should know the most glaring example
of a company that has been raping the Maritimes with abandon for many
years is obviously the Irving Empire. However lately there are some
very nasty new players on the scene such a PCS and Corridor Resourses
etc etc. I am very busy these days and I am not a journalist. You
people are though yet it seems you would rather me say the awlful
truth than yourselves because of some possible lawsuit EH?

So be it. I will because it is not slander if one's words are true.
Perhaps you should consider checking my work and then come to court
sometime in order to listen to me argue all the smiling bastards. You
can have much of my work in a click of the button of my mouse. But
first please allow me to introduce you to the New Brunswick Securities
Commission. I got a rather interesting response from them today whilst
I was in Fredericton. They have ignored my concerns for almost a year
but now that Bernie Lord's government is getting tipsy, it appears all
the bad actors want to show me their arse just in time for me to boot
it.

It is Securities Commissions such as this that allow many publicly
held companies such as Corridor Resources or Magna Entertainment etc
to get away with many things rather than remind them of the law and on
how they should conduct business in an ethical fashion. That said,
these Commisssions have no say whatsoever over the Irving Empire and
that is truly bad. It is a privately held corporation that knows very
well the power of money and on how to pay off greedy politicians in
order to get anything they want. In the nutshell of the Maritimes that
is quite simply everything. It seems that I am the only Maritimer who
is not afraid of the ghost of mean old KC Irving and his monoply game.
It has always been hard times in the Maritimes. We lament about it all
the time but our apathy and fear of the Irvings etc gives us the
govenments we deserve.
Print this if you wish. You are off the hook that Irving's lawyers
threaten ordinary folks with. I am fearless yet never reckless with
the truth. I stand by my own words and invite anyone to sue me if they
think I am a liar and wish to argue me. I hate it when the
chickenshits send crooked cops against me bearing false allegations in
a faint hearted effort to shut me up. It does the smiling bastards no
good and only serves to make matters worse.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos

February 24th, 2006

Rick Hancox Executive Director
c/o Suzanne Ball Senior Legal Counsel
and Manon Losier General Counsel
and Secretary to the New Brunswick
Securities Commission
85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300
Saint John, NB E2L 2J2

RE: Securities Fraud and Public Corruption

Sir,

Pursuant to our conversation today please find enclosed exactly the
same material sent to the eight other provincial Attorney Generals in
Canada before I returned to my native land again this year. Obviously
the AGs Brad Green and Tom Marshall have known the truth of my matters
since the summer of 2004. They have maliciously ignored my false
imprisonment in the USA for their own political benefit. The tapes
enclosed are exactly the same copies that were served upon the lawyers
acting for Rogers Media byway of their newsman Tom Young today. As you
listen to the tape you will hear that I mentioned your Commission on
air in Saint John weeks ago. Methinks you should have called me then
instead of waiting for me to contact you again today.

The tapes and the CD of wiretap tape #139 are served upon the
Commission's lawyers Ms. Ball and Ms. Losier as in confidence as
officers of the court in order that my allegations of illegal wiretaps
by crooked law enforcement authorities may be finally properly
investigated ASAP by ethical law enforcement authorities. Hopefully
this will be done before I sue the Crown about my false imprisonment
but I am not holding my breath. April 3rd is coming fast. Upon your
study of these documents you will see that I have not yet given the
Yankee SEC all of my evidence of Securities Fraud. However every
Attorney General in Canada has been made well aware of it for quite
sometime before the SEC declared it was willing to investigate the
actions of the former Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale. To date not
one person has responded me nor did me the simple courtesy of
returning my calls or emails as you finally did today.

Clearly I must complain of the Crown myself without delay before
further harm is done to my Clan. Rest assured I will be calling you,
Mr. Hancox and the lawyers within your Commission to testify at a
trial of my matters in Federal Court in Fredericton. A very pigheaded
yet ethical Maritimer knows that justice has been delayed way past too
long for the benefit of public corruption and not the public trust. I
will not wait for anyone on public service to act within the scope of
their employment anymore. To put it simply, after our conversation
today I had no faith that you were willing to do your job.

Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
P.O. Box 234
Apohaqui, NB E5P 3G2

agoracosmopolite@on.aibn.com wrote:

Bonjour Mr. David Raymond Amos, We respectfully invite you to consider
a Letter to the Editor, i.e.., How Free Trade undermines Maritime
Economic Development. We had heard you make some representation about
a U.S. company which truck out Maritime 'wealth', as a result of not
having similar .provincial resources rights as Alberta, Many Maritimes
would be potentially interested in such an editorial.Merci.Office of
John StokesThe Canadian National Newspaperinternet site:
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com

posted by David R. Amos at 7:32 PM

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Blogger The Stark Raving Viking said...

    I'll probably post a link to your blog, David, on www.freespeech.com

    It was much more interesting talking to you, than to read your emails.

    Maybe we can talk live, I know of a national radio and internet
radio where we could talk live, interested?
    -Steven G. Erickson
    Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas

Never let a crisis go to waste

Former Obama Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, popularized the phrase, “never let a good crisis go to waste”. He meant to say that times of crisis present opportunities to do things that, otherwise, would not be possible. And so it is today that we find ourselves in the throes of an election in spite of the stable minority government that has ruled the nation for the past two years. After all, the crisis afforded by the advent of the Wuhan virus has given the government-of-the-day the perfect excuse to raid the public coffers and ply its constituents with free money– all in an effort to blunt the economic pain levied by the same government’s lockdown and business-crushing policies.

Businesses closed as public purse opens

And what better time to cash in on the largesse? A year and a half and three waves into the Wuhan virus and Canadians still believe their social interactions and vaccination status are the problems. If only the laggards among them didn’t resist vaccination and persist in offering up their bodies as incubators for more contagious, virulent variants of the virus. The timing is perfect, but tight, as the “scientific” basis for such notions is eroding fast in the face of inescapable and worldwide developments. In almost fully vaccinated Israel, for example, it is the vaccinated that are spreading the contagion and suffering most in hospital settings. The same is happening in other jurisdictions, like the UK and Iceland, that are heavily vaccinated and mere months ahead of Canada when it comes to such programs. Indeed, had the Canadian government waited to call its election it might very well have found itself in a similar situation – in the midst of a fourth wave with monies spent seen as a waste rather than a “we’ve got your back” blessing.

The government has our backs?

Then again and as the evidence mounts, the Liberal government just might find itself in the midst of a national realization that Canadian politicians and healthcrats have been making the contagion worse with its “zero Covid”, vaccine-only remedies. If and when asked, how would they explain that:

• cases are surging in an Israel characterized by 90% vaccination rates and that “boosters” are now required;

• Upwards of 95% of those hospitalized with severe Covid illness in Israel are fully vaccinated; and

• those with natural immunity to the Wuhan virus are much better protected than those with vaccine immunity.

The political and bureaucratic elites were delighted in the past by the knowledge that the main stream media was on their side with no intention of asking these obvious questions. Problem is, the cat is out of the bag, now, with everyday citizens asking for, and even demanding, answers. Witness the need for the Trudeau campaign to cancel a Bolton, Ontario event to avoid rowdy, unsafe crowds. And note the submission of legal suits by grassroot organizations to block draconian and mandatory vaccine injection and passport measures. Have the Liberals run out of time?

Have the Liberals run out of time?

A day late and a dollar short

It does appear that the Liberal government could very well be a day late and a dollar short with its election call. This, as citizens wrestle with what a vaccine passport Canada will look like even as they are sickened by the profligate spending aimed at buying their votes. Still, the government has decided to roll the dice by exploiting vaccine passports as a “wedge” issue even as it continues to promise new spending measures on a daily basis. In the case of the passports, they are no doubt placing their bets on focus groups and internal polling that suggest a fearful populace is craving the security afforded by 100% vaccination rates. But should the Party be worried that the polls are wrong as evidenced by a disastrous first week of campaigning and the desperate need to change the channel?

A disastrous first week of Liberal campaigning

In retrospect, perhaps the Liberals should be thanked for raising the vaccine issues as campaign “wedges”. After all, the civil liberty questions raised by both federal and provincial actions across the country have been ignored by a compliant media and replaced with case counts that have instilled fear in the Canadian populace. This, even though individual rights and freedoms are central to what it means to be a Canadian in our heretofore free and democratic society.The fact that these issues have been ignored throughout the Wuhan virus crisis, to the detriment of all Canadians, is an understatement and in great need of rectification. After all, the implementation of emergency measures that limit the individual rights of Canadians come with a concomitant requirement to “demonstrate” that they are “prescribed by law”, meet the objective and are proportional – in accordance with Section 1 of the Charter.

Are Charter Rights being ignored in Election 2021?

Canadians could be forgiven for wondering if such deliberations were ever entertained as, after almost two years of emergency edicts issued by both federal and provincial governments, they have yet to see related debates take place in their political halls of power. Indeed, throughout this whole period political authorities have accepted as fact any and all WHO-based remedies that have been funnelled to them through their public health authorities. Unfortunately, these new “lockdown” strategies come to us from China’s experience in dealing with the Wuhan virus and depart markedly from the WHO’s own Pandemic Planning Guidelines of 2019. These guidelines recognized the massive damage that can be visited upon societies that close borders and industries and recommended vociferously against such measures. How could such considerations have escaped the attention of our political leaders before they lowered the boom on our civil liberties in the name of the Wuhan virus?

WHO Pandemic Planning Guidelines of 2019

David v Goliath (Garneau)

It is clear now that the ballot-box question of Election 2021 has moved beyond mundane vote-buying to embrace the individual rights and freedoms that have been so ravaged by government fiat over the past 18 months. Besides the controversial vaccine mandates and passports that have been recently announced by various governments, the related debate is being propelled by data coming out of countries that are ahead of Canada when it comes to the rollout of vaccine programs. And so we see in Israel and the UK the surge of new and serious cases of “Delta” infections in fully vaccinated individuals. Indeed, in both countries over 60% of the serious illnesses and death are occurring in the fully vaccinated. Additionally, it is beginning to appear that it is the vaccinated who are responsible for incubating “mutations” even as they serve as “super-spreaders” of the virus.

Are the vaccinated the new "Typhoid Marys"?

There can be little doubt that this unfolding evidence and data is driving a new “Ballot-Box” question that has been steadfastly ignored by the legacy federal parties. After all, they have, each and every one, been four-square behind the crushing of individual rights in the name of promoting the “common good” to defeat the Wuhan virus. But what if they are wrong? What if both the “common good” and individual liberties were better served by the pandemic planning guidelines that were based on decades of epidemiological science – the guidelines from 2019? What if they are asked to explain the new data coming out of Israel and the UK that sees flagging vaccine efficacy rates, the need for boosters and disease being spread by the fully vaccinated? What will or can they say? How will they explain away Sweden’s success at coming through the contagion without locking down when Canada faces a new “fourth wave”? This, even as our Prime Minister promises one billion dollars for provinces that implement vaccine passports and Ontario changes course to cash in?

Premier Ford of Ontario reverses course on vaccine passports

If we are going to see these questions play out it will very likely be in the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Westmount. The riding should be a slam-dunk for the Liberal incumbent, Marc Garneau. After all, he is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs, a past contender for the Liberal Party leadership, Canada’s first astronaut and former Executive Vice President of Canada’s Space Agency. Problem is and as noted in previous “updates”, he is a solid member of the party system that has usurped power from the individual Member of Parliament to vest it in the party itself. He was an integral member of the Cabinet that ousted Jodie Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott in the face of the SNC Lavalin scandal and he stood for the suspending and proroguing of parliament to skate around the WE debacle. One wonders, can he expect to be re-elected on a platform that includes dividing Canadians on the basis of their medical status?

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Marc Garneau

Then again we have M. Garneau’s competitor from the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), David Freiheit. The PPC is one of the few federal parties, the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) among them, that promises to restore individual rights and freedoms and re-instate the proven pandemic measures of the past. For his part, David Freiheit, a litigation lawyer by trade, has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Charter and the need to restrict related fundamental freedoms only given “prescribed laws” that can be “demonstrated” to be necessary. C3RF had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Freiheit and he can be seen to expound on his freedom-based leanings here. M. Garneau has been invited to be interviewed by yours truly but, as of yet, has not responded. In any event, the recognition of vaccine mandates and passports as the “Ballot-Box” question of Election 2021 and the contribution of these two gentlemen in the related debate is much appreciated and looked forward to.

PPC Candidate for Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Westmount, David Freiheit

Thanks for your continued support

Your patronage makes a world of difference in the ability of C3RF to educate, advocate and act in service of preserving the individual and fundamental rights of all Canadians. It is truly unfortunate that such efforts are required but the fact remains, these rights and freedoms are coming under increasing attack from all quarters including our own legislative, judicial, media, academic and security authorities. Please know that the funds you so generously donate go directly into campaigning, events, bookkeeping, technology costs and legal advice. When these basic services are met, we use excess funding to assist other groups in advancing the cause of Canadian individual rights within a strong and free Canada. We also contribute to related legal proceedings and charitable activities when able. If you missed the call, Click here to support C3RF today!

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Major Russ Cooper (Ret’d)

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Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd) follows the reverberations emanating from the Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Westmount riding and rolls "In Hot" on Election 2021. It looks like the ballot-box question is being moved away from "climate change" and "day care" as the PPC candidate, David Freiheit, respectfully disagrees. How is it, he wonders, that "flattening the curve" was allowed to become "get an experimental vaccine or suffer the consequences". Strap in for some hard maneuvering as the discussion analyzes Canada's movement away from being strong and free to becoming a police state. Is this election really about "climate change"? Or is it about disrupting tyranny?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_07pl2Gvd8&ab_channel=VivaPPC 

My Interview with Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd) & the Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms

Viva PPC

Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd), President and CEO of C3RF, participates in an extended interview with Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson on her social media program,"& Friends". The conversation is fast-paced and chronicles the stripping away of individual, "fundamental" freedoms in Canada with the onset of the current Liberal government in 2015. Forget about the cavalry riding over the hill in the form of previously respected, competent and impartial institutions to save the day. They are on the other side, now, and it's up to each citizen to stand up and take back the rights and freedoms that are theirs as Canadians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldRkeLhtEw&ab_channel=CanadianCitizensforCharterRightsandFreedoms 

Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson interviews Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd): Canada's Culture of Fear

Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms

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"Conservative" honors the Muslim Brotherhood member in Parliament

Daniel Bordman

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOluvJWoow&ab_channel=DanielBordman

Why I am Voting PPC

Daniel Bordman

 https://www.elections.ca/WPAPPS/WPR/EN/TP/DetailedReport?selectedId=764&queryId=b3d93964cdc64f00a4740349e3109577&referrer=PFP

 https://www.canadiancitizens.org/single-post/2018/12/05/c3rf-press-release-on-un-global-compact

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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 17:46:35 -0300
Subject: Re: I bet you remember my crossing paths with Mack Lamoureux
before he got his job with VICE Magazine and claims to have moved to
Toronto EH Mayor Don Iveson???
To: Airdrie.Cochrane@assembly.ab.ca, David Amos
< david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, macklamoureux
< macklamoureux@gmail.com>, "Michelle.Boutin"
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Peter.Guthrie@assembly.ab.ca, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
"Bill.Blair"<Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"
< Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier
< premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.nl.ca>, premier
< premier@gov.pe.ca>, premier <premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier
< premier@gov.yk.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, Office of the
Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>
Cc: "erin.otoole"<erin.otoole@parl.gc.ca>, premier
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acampbell@legacylawyers.ca, jdp@tdslaw.com, "Nathalie.Drouin"
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https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/09/ucp-mla-attacks-kenney-for-his-covid-tone/

  https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/09/ucp-mla-attacks-kenney-for-his-covid-tone/

UCP MLA attacks Kenney for his COVID ‘tone’

Published

22 hours ago on September 7, 2021

By Dave Naylor

A UCP MLA blasted Premier Jason Kenney for his tone to Albertans as he again reimposed COVID-19 regulations on the province.

“Last Friday, the Government of Alberta announced restrictions adopting a disparaging and accusatory tone toward unvaccinated individuals,” said Airdrie-Cochrane MLA Peter Guthrie in a letter to constituents on his Facebook page.

“People refusing COVID-19 shots were painted as culpable for creating challenges to the healthcare system. This type of communication from our leader feeds a narrative of anger and division which is unproductive in an already turbulent time. The $100 vaccine incentive has also created animosity within the constituency and I am not in favour of the negative tone adopted by leadership.”

The anti-Kenney comments are a change of pace for Guthrie who has previously shown steadfast support of the premier in the face of caucus unrest.

In fact, it was Guthrie who made the motion in the UCP Caucus to expel the disgruntled MLAs Todd Loewen and Drew Barnes.

And he had earlier blasted his former colleague Barnes’ call for government bureaucrats and provincial politicians to take a 20% wage rollback to show solidarity with Albertans suffering from COVID-19 pandemic economic woes.

But it appears times have changed.

“Two months ago, the Government of Alberta, my colleagues and I told you that Alberta was not only ‘Open for Summer,’ but ‘Open for Good.’ With all the information at my disposal, I truly believed this to be the case. Yet here we are, weeks later, imposing restrictions on constituents again, and for this reason, I want to offer my sincere apologies,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

“I think most Albertans watched with trepidation over the last several weeks as patient numbers in hospitals, particularly ICUs, began to climb and vaccination rates stalled. Increased anxiety from the public regarding the load on the healthcare system triggered discussions on mandatory vaccination, masks, and vaccine passports. These contentious issues have created division within our community.

“I am vaccinated and believe vaccines to be an effective measure to protect Albertans from the virus. That said, I also support the rights of individuals to choose for themselves, have control over their bodies, and have the right to maintain privacy in personal health matters. If one believes that we should have these individual rights and we are indeed “in this together,’ then we should respect the decisions of our fellow constituents regardless of what those decisions may be.”

Guthrie said the rising pressure on the provincial hospital system has to be the top priority for the UCP government.

“The degradation of our public health system and the inability to react to an evolving situation is the issue at hand, not accusing individuals who are unvaccinated,” said Guthrie.

“During last week’s announcement, it was also revealed to me that the province will be introducing a QR Code for Albertans to use as proof of vaccination for organizations choosing to introduce a so-called ‘vaccine passport.’

“Such a move suggests that the government’s position on this practice is shifting. Various public opinions exist on the use of vaccine passports, but I am not convinced it is a good practice for domestic use as it not only limits access to services and isolates individuals, it also provides a false sense of security for those who are vaccinated – all of which increases the divisions we unfortunately see now.”

Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard
dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com
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