"Nearly all the next-of-kin of 2,793 people killed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, took payments averaging $1.8 million from the federal 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Of the 96 families that chose instead to sue the airlines...93 have since settled...an average $5 million each."

The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund with its exorbitant payouts is a pet peeve of mine. A couple months after 9/11, I was a volunteer notary downtown helping additional supposed victims apply for compensation because of 9/11 job loss, etc. I was amazed by all the obviously fraudulent identifications I was being asked to validate. When I discussed this with the person in charge, his reply was that he knew, but felt some of those people could be poor and therefore in need of money. It was essentially a program that gave away "free money" to anyone who applied. In the so-called domestic terrorist Oklahoma City Bombing, 168 people were killed and more than 600 were injured--many seriously. Yet those people and their families received little, if anything, to compensate them for their losses and injuries.

So the individual payouts of $1.8 million to $5 million that were given to each family/relative of a 9/11 victim are outrageous, unprecedented and unjustified.

I suppose Montel can also hire a life coach to spoon feed him when the MS takes over.

The link for the St. Paul's School story goes to Gothamist.Com.