Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Department of Justice Emails Description An account of the resource The Department of Justice received more than 11,000 e-mails in response to the agency's public solicitation for comments upon its plans to distribute the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 established by Congress to benefit the victims of September 11 and their families. These e-mails have been organized here by date. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:13 PM Comments for Final Rules Kenneth L. Zwick, Director Office of Management Programs Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice Main Building, Room 3140 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 Dear Mr. Zwick, You have received many comments regarding the final rules. I am suggesting an alternative settlement approach which might be reasonable yet resolve many of the issues Mr. Feinberg is facing. First, the law was intended to avoid costly lawsuits by the victims against the airline industry. The government wants to reduce its exposure regarding the amount of money it would payout to the families, and finally, it wants to appear kind to the families yet have a standard method to compensate those families. Second, a.) Begin with what an airline settlement package would be. Those are higher then the method you are proposing. b.) subtract the collateral sources (insurance, pension and etc); c.) provide the net to the families. People will not be able to argue over that approach. It might cost more than what Feinberg is currently proposing, even you must admit that the amounts currently being offered has many faults and fails to meet the intent of the law. The simple fact that you and Feinberg needed to put "SPIN" on the proposed settlement. That is, to claim the average family was to receive a settlement of $1.6 million is SPIN. The actual cost to the government is more like $400,000 to maybe $600,000 per family. I can't understand why our government employee must lie to the public. Why can't the government deal fairly with the families? Why during these trying time can't you and other government officials be honest with the public. Regards, Individual Comment Avon, CT September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 2002-01-19 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource dojN002079.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. full Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-01-19