I just watched the movie about this lawyer and it really pissed me off
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From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team, this documentary traces the U.S. response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across three presidencies. This two-hour special offers an epic re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America. | ||
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/list-of-canadian-victims-of-9-11-1.693626
List of Canadian victims of 9-11
The Tribute in Light is seen in the sky above the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site on the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
At least 24 Canadians lost their lives in the 9-11 terrorist attacks, according to Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
There is much discrepancy, however, when it comes to pinpointing just how many Canadians were killed amid the chaos on Sept. 11, 2001. Many victims, though not born in Canada, are recognized as having close ties to the country.
The victims listed below were either born in Canada or had roots in the country.
Michael Arczynski (Vancouver, B.C.)
Arczynski, 45, worked as senior vice-president of Aon Corp.'s Manhattan office. The Vancouver-native left behind three children on 9-11. His wife Lori gave birth to a fourth child, named after his late father, after the attack.
Garnet "Ace" Bailey (Lloydminster, Sask.)
Bailey, 53, was the director of pro scouting for the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. He was aboard United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the South Tower. He is survived by his wife, Katherine, and son, Todd.
David Barkway (Toronto, Ont.)
Barkway, 34, an executive with BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto, was in the office of Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of the north tower. Barkway is survived by his wife Cindy and two young sons.
Ken Basnicki (Toronto, Ont.)
Basnicki, 48, was in the north tower attending a conference for BEA Systems, the software firm he worked for in Toronto. He is survived by his wife Maureen and two children, Brennan and Erica.
Jane Beatty (Toronto, Ont.)
Originally from Britain, Beatty lived in Ontario for more than two decades before moving to the United States to work as a technical supervisor at Marsh and McLennan Cos. Inc. in the WTC North Tower. Three weeks before she died, she celebrated her fifth anniversary of surviving breast cancer.
Joseph Collison (Toronto, Ont.)
The Toronto-native was working in a mailroom on the 102 floor of the North Tower at the time of the attack. At the time of his death, Collison, who was not married, was hoping to adopt a young boy in New York.
Cynthia Connolly (Montreal, Que.)
Connolly, 40, transferred from insurance firm Aon Corp.'s Montreal offices to New York in 1999. She and her husband, Donald Poissant lived in Metuchen, N.J.
Arron Dack (Toronto, Ont.)
Originally from England, Dack moved to Canada with his parents in 1970. The 39-year-old software executive was attending a conference in the North Tower when the first plane hit. He is survived by his wife Abigail and two children, Olivia and Carter.
Frank Joseph Doyle (linked to the Ottawa Valley)
The 39-year-old Detroit native was married to Kimmy Chedel of St. Adele, Que. He was an American citizen whose parents were from the Ottawa valley and he had a home in Canada. He is survived by two children, Zoe and Garrett.
Christine Egan (Winnipeg, Man.)
The 55-year-old Health Canada nurse epidemiologist was visiting her younger brother's office on the 105th floor in the second tower of the WTC at the time of the attack. Egan was raised in England and moved to Canada in the late 1960s.
Michael Egan (Montreal, Que.)
Egan, 51, lived in New Jersey and worked on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center at an insurance firm. The father of two boys moved to the New York area from Montreal in 1991.
Albert Elmarry (Toronto, Ont.)
The 30-year-old moved from Toronto to the United States in 1999 to work in computer support for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 103rd floor of one of the towers. His wife Irinie gave birth to a daughter nearly six months after he was killed.
Meredith Ewart and Peter Feidelberg (Montreal, Que.)
The Montreal couple moved to the United States in 1997 and married in March 2000. Ewart, 29, and Feidelberg, 34, lived in Hoboken, N.J., and both had offices on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower, where they worked at Aon Corp.
Alexander Filipov (Regina, Sask.)
Filipov, 70, was born in Regina and lived in Concord, Mass. He was on American Airlines Flight 11 when it hit the World Trade Center. He is survived by his wife Loretta and three sons.
Ralph Gerhardt (Toronto, Ont.)
Gerhardt, 34, was a vice-president with Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower at the time of the attack. His girlfriend Linda Luzzicone was also killed on 9-11.
Stuart Lee (Vancouver, B.C.)
Lee, 30, was vice-president of integrated services for DataSynapse, a technology company that served the financial industry. Lee, who grew up in Vancouver, spent the last hour of his life emailing his company for updates from outside the WTC.
Mark Ludvigsen (Rothesay, N.B.)
Ludvigsen, 32, moved to the United States with his family at age seven. He worked as a bond broker at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods on the 89th floor of the south tower.
Bernard Mascarenhas (Newmarket, Ont.)
Mascarenhas, 54, worked for Marsh Canada, whose parent company, Marsh and McLennan Cos. Inc., had offices at the World Trade Center. He is survived by his wife, Raynette, a son, Sven, and a daughter, Jaclyn.
Colin McArthur (Toronto, Ont.)
McArthur, 52, moved to Toronto in 1977 to work as an insurance broker. He and his wife Brenda relocated to New York in 1997 where McArthur worked for Aon Corp on the 104th floor of the South Tower.
Michael Pelletier (linked to Vancouver, B.C.)
Pelletier, 36, was a commodities broker for a division of trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald on the 105th floor of the North Tower. He is survived by his wife Sophie and his three-year-old daughter and one-year-old son. Much of his family lives in Vancouver, B.C.
Donald Robson (Toronto, Ont.)
Robson, 52, worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 103rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. He is survived by his wife, Kathy, had two sons, Geoff and Scott.
Ruffino "Roy" Santos (linked to British Columbia)
The 37-year-old Manila native moved to British Columbia with his family in the 1980s. He moved to New York in the late 1990s, to work as a computer consultant. Santos was supposed to leave the 94th floor of the World Trade Center the week after he died to work for a different company.
Vladimir Tomasevic (Toronto, Ont.)
Originally from Yugoslavia, Tomasevic moved to Canada in 1994. The 36-year-old was attending a conference on the 106th floor of the North Tower at the time of the attack. He is survived by his wife Tanja.
Chantal "Chanti" Vincelli (Montreal, Que.)
Originally from Montreal, Vincelli worked as a marketing assistant at DataSynapse Inc. The 38-year-old moved to New York in the late 1990s and lived in Harlem with her cats.
Debbie Williams (Montreal, Que.)
Williams, 35, worked for international insurance company Aon Corp. for 15 years. The Montreal-native and her husband, Darren, moved to Hoboken, N.J., after being transferred to New York City by their employer.
LeRoy Homer (linked to Canada)
Homer, 36, was the co-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. He was an American citizen, but his wife Melodie was from Hamilton, Ont. He and his wife lived in Marlton, N.J. with their daughter.
With files from The Canadian Press
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/03/worth-kenneth-feinberg-9-11/
After 9/11, Kenneth Feinberg was asked to do the unthinkable: Assign a value to each life lost that day
Kenneth Feinberg is seen in 2012.(Matt McClain/The Washington Post) After class wrapped up, Feinberg saw students huddled around a TV in a hallway. He wandered over. A plane had flown into the World Trade Center. An accident, Feinberg thought. Minutes later, the second plane hit the towers. Then another slammed into the Pentagon.
So many lives lost, so many changed forever — including Feinberg’s.
Two months after the terrorist attacks, Feinberg was handed an unthinkable task by Congress: assigning dollar values to the 3,000 lives lost that day, as well as the thousands injured. As special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Feinberg presided over an unprecedented, unlimited budget to repay families what could never be repaid.
There was no syllabus on how to do that.
“What’s a fair amount for a body?” said Feinberg, now 75, during an interview at his law practice in the Willard Office Building, just down the street from the White House. “It’s not justice. It’s not fairness. It can’t be fairness. It’s mercy.”
The nearly three years Feinberg and his office administrator Camille Biros spent distributing more than $7 billion to 5,562 people is depicted in “Worth,” a new Netflix film that premiered this past Friday. With backing from former President Barack Obama’s production company, the movie stars Michael Keaton as Feinberg, Amy Ryan as Biros and Stanley Tucci as Charles Wolf, a New York man whose wife was killed in the attacks and who later protested Feinberg’s oversight.
The movie, Feinberg said, is a fairly accurate representation of what happened, including his own evolution from a by-the-books attorney to “a rabbi and a priest and a nun,” as he put it.
“There’s a certain dramatic license that they play in the film,” said Feinberg, a father of three adult children who lives in Bethesda with his wife, Diane. “But I must say that the emotion was overwhelming.”
Feinberg asked for it.
Feinberg talks with Stephanie Dunn, whose husband was killed at the Pentagon. (Michael Williamson/The Washington Post)
Born in a working-class town south of Boston, Feinberg attended the University of Massachusetts, where he fell in love with two things — American history and theater. He played the Duke of Venice in “Othello,” among other roles.
He even toyed with a career in acting, but his dad, a tire store owner, talked him out of it.
“Ken, most actors end up waiting tables in New York City and starving,” Feinberg recalled his father saying in his autobiography. “Why not take your acting talents to law school? You can play Hamlet in front of juries."
After law school at New York University, Feinberg became a law clerk and then a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. In 1975, he landed a job as counsel to Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee, where he helped craft the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Feinberg later rose to become Kennedy’s chief of staff.
In 1983, his career turned away from politics. A federal judge in New York asked him to mediate a lawsuit filed by Vietnam veterans against the chemical industry over Agent Orange, a “tactical herbicide” used by the U.S. military during the war that left thousands of service members sick.
Feinberg had no training in mediation, but he did have a booming Boston voice and a natural ability to lean in very close to people and help them narrow their differences enough so that both sides thought they were agreeing to something that resembled something like fairness.
More cases followed: breast implants, heart valves, asbestos.
But nothing would prepare him for the aftermath of Sept 11.
Feinberg, writes his phone number down for Dorene Hurt, left, who was assisting a family who lost a loved one at the Pentagon. (Michael Williamson/The Washington Post)
After reading about the plan to appoint a special master in the newspaper, Feinberg thought he’d be perfect for the job — one that he would do pro bono. He called an old friend, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), to express his interest. That led to two interviews with Attorney General John Ashcroft during which they discussed the parameters of the job, which essentially allowed the administrator wide discretion over who got what from a bottomless bag of funds.
Feinberg got the job.
He and Biros came up with a formula for compensation based on current and future income with the goal of making sure that 85 percent of the funds weren’t paid to the highest income-earners, including wealthy financial executives at brokerage firms, including Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost more than 650 workers at the World Trade Center.
Few people were happy with Feinberg. He had tense encounters with victims’ families at town hall meetings. Many harangued him not just for his formula but also the coldness with which he explained it. Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, was killed in the towers, organized critics of Feinberg and set up a website called fixthefund.org.
On the site, in his “statement of purpose,” Wolf wrote:
Ken Feinberg is everything the Founding Fathers of this country were striving to avoid when they wrote the Constitution. With a sparsely written law, Feinberg was forced to write most of the details himself in the form of regulations. Then, he has to implement what he just wrote, pointing back to those same regulations as unbendable rules. Finally, he is the final adjudicator as the law prohibits judicial review by the courts. Feinberg has the power of King George III; he is lawmaker, administrator, judge and jury.
“Nobody really felt like he was listening to us,” Wolf said in an interview.
And sign-ups were lagging — a problem because the fund was inspired by a desire to get victims to accept the payments and waive the right to sue the airlines, sparing the airline industry from collapsing under thousands of lawsuits.
But Feinberg and Biros plodded on, meeting individually with families to hear their stories — hundreds of meetings, day after day. The families of busboys. The families of bond traders. The stories were harrowing: a firefighter killed by a flying body, a man burned on 85 percent of his body after being trapped in an elevator.
The burned man showed up to Feinberg’s office with a team of doctors.
“Singed, no eye brows, no hair at all,” Feinberg remembered. “Artificial skin.”
“It was horrible,” Biros said.
There was nothing requiring him to come in for the meeting.
“But he wanted to be heard,” Biros said. “He wanted people to know what happened to him.”
Michael Keaton as Kenneth Feinberg and Stanley Tucci as Charles Wolf in a scene from "Worth." (Monika Lek/Netflix)
As the process wore on, Wolf noticed a change in Feinberg.
“It was like God came down and talked to Ken,” Wolf said.
There was more empathy from Feinberg, Wolf said, more willingness to adjust awards beyond what the formula called for.
The process wrecked Feinberg, Biros and the firm’s lawyers.
“You cry in private, never professionally in front of the families,” Feinberg said. “And then you’re up all night. What do we do with this one? What about this? What about them? And it’s just debilitating.”
Even after finishing the disbursements for the 9/11 attacks, Feinberg and Biros were not finished.
Feinberg’s firm became the go-to law firm to administer compensatory funds following other tragedies. The mass shootings at Virginia Tech University, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. The 2010 BP oil spill. Victims of clergy sexual abuse.
Feinberg no longer seeks these tragedies; they find him.
“If it’s on the front page,” Feinberg said, “we just know we’re going to get that call.”
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Michael S. Rosenwald
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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 English Michael 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:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26408/kenneth-feinberg-interview-0114/
Kenneth Feinberg: The Nation's Leading Expert in Picking up the Pieces
UPDATE, June 30, 2014 Kenneth Feinberg has opened his latest attempt to ease the pain, announcing a fund to compensate victims and their families for GM's ignition switch fiasco. As many as thirteen deaths and 56 crashes are tied to the case. Payouts will range from thousands of dollars to $1 million. "GM delegated to me, at my full and sole discretion, to decide which claims are eligible, and how much money they should get. There are no appeals. Once I make the decision, that's it," he told USA Today. "Money is a poor substitute for loss ... it's the best we can do."
This profile, published in the January 2014 issue, looks at how he decides who gets what among the victims.
There are seventy-four passengers on the bow of the Island Home, the ferry that runs between the mainland of Massachusetts and Martha's Vineyard. The sun is just starting to break through a thick blanket of clouds. There are not many children island bound this morning: a little boy with a raincoat with airplanes on it; a girl, maybe five or six years old, sitting on her father's lap, blowing bubbles with her gum. Mostly there are adults. A few are traveling alone. There is a silent man with silver hair holding what looks like a tube for blueprints. A younger man with tired eyes stands nearby, drinking beer from a plastic cup, a black bag slung over his shoulder. Down below, there are rows of cars in the hold, and hundreds more passengers are hidden away inside, but these seventy-four passengers remain out here in the open, exposed, paying no attention to the lonely men or to the backpacks lying between their feet.
The chances are high that these seventy-four passengers will ride the Island Home and dock in Vineyard Haven without incident. There is a very small chance, however, that a bolt of lightning will flash out of the sky and into their huddled midst, in which case this particular ferry trip will make the national news, and some families will collect life insurance and the less-prepared among them will not. There is an even smaller chance, perhaps, that the captain of the Island Home will somehow capsize his vessel, or the ship itself will reveal some crippling fault before it sinks, in which case in addition to the collection of life insurance, there will be lawsuits. And there is a smaller chance still, small enough to be almost negligible, that one of these backpacks or that blueprints tube will explode, or that the young man with tired eyes will pull a machine gun out of his black bag, in which case some families will collect life insurance, and there will also be lawsuits, but something else will happen, too.
Americans will start writing checks. And hopefully someone will petition the IRS to set up a 501(c)(3)—a tax-exempt organization—and that fund will be given a compelling name, and the little boy in the raincoat or the girl blowing bubbles will become the heartbreaking face of this latest senselessness, and around-the-clock media coverage and impassioned speeches from mayors and baseball players will help funnel millions of dollars in the vague direction of makeshift memorials and candlelight vigils, and then the governor of Massachusetts, or maybe even the attorney general of the United States, will appoint what the courts call a "special master," delegating to him or her the terrible duty of distributing that money in a fair and equitable manner to the victims of yet another modern American calamity. And now the odds will swing dramatically from the very long to the very short, because the special master they will name will almost certainly be the man who, at this moment, is secreted away on the island side of the water: a sixty-eight-year-old attorney named Kenneth R. Feinberg, the nation's leading expert in picking up the pieces.
This is the sort of man Kenneth Feinberg used to be: When he and his family were deciding where to buy a place to get away, they narrowed their choices to Martha's Vineyard and nearby Nantucket, islands not far out to sea but far enough. To decide between them, Feinberg studied reams of historic weather data and the prevailing ocean and air currents, and he determined that Nantucket's airport was more likely, maybe even twice as likely, to be fogged in on any given day. Feinberg, forever in motion, didn't want to be held up by fog, and so he and his wife, Dede, and their three adult children settled on a perfectly logical lot on Martha's Vineyard, buying just over five acres of woods on top of a rise.
At the time, in 2002, Feinberg—already deep into a long and lucrative corporate legal career—was in the middle of his best-known and perhaps most controversial work: He was the special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, allocating federal money to the injured and the families of the dead. Today he insists that the timing of his purchase—this escape—was coincidental. "I got a chance to buy property that wasn't on the market that I thought was a very good price," he says, sitting on a small upstairs porch in the stunning shingled house he and Dede have since built in the trees. But for a man so skilled at our hardest math, for a born high-stakes actuary, Feinberg can sometimes miss the sums of his own life.
It feels as though we live in an age of constant calamity, that for the last fifteen years or so, maybe longer, we have been routinely set upon by sudden eruptions of violence and madness, by the abrupt discontinuities of terror. Perhaps our time is not unique in that. What does separate us is our trying to fix or quell or somehow mitigate these horrors through mass healing and mass compensation. We live in the age of Feinberg. Between September 11 and today, he has overseen the accounting of thousands of dead: nearly all of the 2,977 victims of 9/11; the thirty-two faculty and students slain during the Virginia Tech massacre; the eleven lost oil-rig workers of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; the seven people crushed by a collapsing stage at the Indiana State Fair; the ten spectators killed by a crashing plane at the Reno Air Races; the twelve midnight moviegoers gunned down in Aurora, Colorado; the twenty-six educators and children murdered in Newtown, Connecticut; and, most recently, the four people either blown up or shot during the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. Feinberg has also determined the compensation for everyone injured during those calamities, determining the value of lost legs and 85 percent of someone's skin, as well as for the hundreds of thousands of oystermen and hoteliers and shrimpers affected by the oil slick in the Gulf.
The walls of his office in Washington, D. C., are covered with framed accounts of his heavy lifting. PUTTING A PRICE ON LIFE, reads one headline. PLAYING GOD, reads another. To hear Feinberg tell it, he remains largely unaffected by his work: He does his job as well as he can, and he moves on. "I don't dream about it," he says. And yet here he sits, in his custom-built retreat, on the porch he's tucked near the top of the house he's built on a rise in the woods on an island.
Feinberg's long journey to this place began with a letter. He wanted to be an actor when he was young, and there remains a performer in him. He is bald with glasses and a shambling charisma; he doesn't smile often, but when he does, it changes his entire face. He becomes a different person when he smiles. But Feinberg's most outstanding trait is his voice, which is Massachusetts-long and cigar-deepened, and he uses it like an instrument, raising and lowering its pitch and volume to dramatic effect. It isn't too hard to imagine him commanding a stage, but his father, a tire wholesaler in Brockton, outside Boston, convinced him that the law might be a more stable profession. He could use his performing skills in the courtroom.
Feinberg was attending New York University's School of Law when one of his professors wrote the fateful letter—a letter of recommendation so that he might clerk for Judge Stanley Fuld, the nationally respected chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. The letter convinced Fuld, who normally hired Columbia graduates, to take a chance. At a gathering of Fuld's present and former clerks in the early 1970s, Feinberg put on a skit, a brave, dead-nuts impersonation of his occasionally fearsome mentor. One of Fuld's most successful former clerks, Judge Jack Weinstein, happened to be in the audience, and he liked the skit very much. "I thought he had a hide and a sense of humor," Weinstein says today; at ninety-two, he remains a sitting federal judge in Brooklyn. In 1983—after Feinberg had worked as an assistant U. S. attorney in New York City and later as Senator Ted Kennedy's chief of staff in Washington, D. C.—Weinstein was assigned a case that, in Feinberg's words, "changed everything."
During the Vietnam War, the U. S. military sprayed millions of gallons of an herbicide called Agent Orange over the jungles. Upon returning home, many thousands of veterans of the war began developing soft-tissue sarcoma, cancer, and a gruesome skin condition called chloracne. The veterans, sick and dying, launched a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of Agent Orange, seven heavily fortified chemical giants, including Dow and Monsanto. Weinstein immediately saw the lawsuit on his desk for what it was: a legal and ethical tangle as dense as the jungles Agent Orange had been designed to eradicate.
Just twelve weeks from the case going to interminable trial, Weinstein asked Feinberg to try to reach a settlement before years of courtroom agony began. "Talk about a pivot point," Feinberg says, remembering that long-ago phone call. Feinberg was not especially qualified to mediate the dispute; he hadn't even taken a single course in mediation in law school. Weinstein called Feinberg because he knew he could trust him and because the younger man was well connected in Washington after his years spent serving Kennedy, but mostly the judge called Feinberg because of that skit. Weinstein called Feinberg because he had a hide and a sense of humor.
He began by meeting with the veterans and their lawyers and the chemical companies and their lawyers. The veterans asked for $1.2 billion. The chemical companies made their counteroffer: $25,000, total, enough to give each of the Vietnam War's 250,000 surviving veterans a dime. "Well, we're closer than we were a minute ago," Feinberg said. A few weeks later, the night before the case would go to trial, he somehow forged a miracle settlement, a fund that would eventually reach $250 million, a record at the time.
Judge Weinstein had rented a nearby hotel room during the torturous last-minute negotiations. He went for an early-morning swim and returned to his room to find Feinberg sitting on one of the beds, fully dressed and electrified, bouncing up and down like an excited child, the creaking of those bedsprings the unlikely sound of an improbable predawn victory. Weinstein later asked him to come up with a formula to distribute the millions, the most to the neediest, and for the first time Feinberg answered the question that has since become his calling and his curse: Who gets what?
"Ken," the judge said, offering one last piece of instruction that stuck like shrapnel. "Get the money out the door."
Nigel Parry
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Feinberg was in Philadelphia, teaching mass torts at the University of Pennsylvania. He walked out of class and saw on a TV in the student union that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Errant pilot, he thought. He got into a taxi and headed for the train station, to go home to Washington, where his name now graced a large and successful law practice; since Agent Orange, he had become a much-in-demand mediator of civil cases—asbestos, Dalkon Shield—and corporate disputes. At the Philadelphia station, Feinberg learned that a second plane had hit the other tower. "Now everybody knows it's an attack," he says today. His train left, but it stopped cold in Wil mington, Delaware. A third plane had hit the Pentagon.
Eleven days later, Feinberg picked up a copy of The New York Times. He read that after a single day of debate, Congress had created the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. For the first time in American history, federal taxpayer money would be awarded to individual victims of a national tragedy. It was a vague and confused bill, written and approved in haste, without any legal or legislative precedent. Nothing like it had happened after the Oklahoma City bombing or even after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Nothing like it had happened then because the weapons weren't hijacked planes bearing the logos of two of the country's biggest airlines, which now risked being sued out of the sky. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was created largely to save them; families who accepted money from the fund had to waive their right to sue. If it was an act of compassion, it was an accidental one.
Shortly after Feinberg finished reading the article, he picked up the phone and called a Vietnam veteran he'd worked with during the Agent Orange settlement, now a Republican senator from Nebraska: Chuck Hagel. That phone call, like that letter of recommendation from Feinberg's professor, like that phone call from Judge Weinstein, began another long tumble toward what, in hindsight, seems like an almost predetermined end.
When asked why he picked up the phone that day, Feinberg talks about his childhood in Brockton and its communitarian spirit. He also talks about the lingering effect of one afternoon in 1960, when his father took him to Logan Airport, sneaking through a hole in the fence and slipping into the receiving line for John F. Kennedy, then the Democratic nominee for president and the man who would soon ask not what your country can do for you.
It also matters that Feinberg is Jewish. In Israel, there is a team of volunteers, mostly Orthodox Jews, known as ZAKA. After bus bombings and airport shootings, they arrive in teams to comb the wreckage for body parts, even sopping up blood, doing their best to ensure the dead are made as complete as possible before their burials. It is the truest sort of kindness, because it is a kindness that will never be repaid. Feinberg is not Orthodox, and he does not deal directly with bodies. But he does trade in lives that can never be made whole, and he rarely receives thanks for it. "It's rewarding to him in other ways," Dede Feinberg says. "In Judaism we believe in tikkun olam"—a Hebrew phrase for "repairing the world." Dede, a longtime philanthropist in her own right, has never tried to dissuade her husband from showing up at the scenes of catastrophe, like those strong-stomached volunteers in Israel.
But really, Feinberg picked up the phone that day for the same reason Americans yield to their instinct to give money to those felled by spectacularly unkind fates: He felt helpless but wanted to help, and his version of helping was to volunteer for one of the worst jobs in the world. Hagel placed a call to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and after a series of backroom discussions, Ashcroft appointed Feinberg the special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, working pro bono, as he almost always does on behalf of the dead.
That work and the work that has followed it, his growing collection of aftermaths, have changed him. He has become smarter, humbler, more acute, more uniquely fitted to his task. Virginia Tech, the Deepwater Horizon, Newtown, Boston—he managed each of those horrors, and each was managed better because of what he has learned. But all of them were shaped, because he was shaped, by September 11.
"Be careful what you wish for," Ted Kennedy told him after he got the job. The old lion knew calamity, and worse, he knew the second wave of calamity that follows it.
On the first anniversary of September 11, NBC broadcast a "Town Hall" hosted by Tom Brokaw, with an audience of families of the victims. Many of them held large photographs of their lost loved ones on their laps. The broadcast represented the first time many Americans caught a glimpse of Feinberg, although he had been working, mostly fruitlessly, behind the scenes for nine months. He had been too blunt for the families in his early efforts, too distant, too cold, too mathematical. He was still the man who chose between islands because of the days they spent in fog.
Watching the NBC tape today is like stepping into an unhappy time machine. All the wounds are fresh, and everyone is still speaking about the dead in the present tense. Feinberg sits by himself on a chair at the bottom of a small arena of seats. The families look down on him from three sides. He sits in a suit with his hands clasped on his lap. He looks as though he knows what is coming, but despite his knowledge, he also looks defenseless. "You're a piñata," he says today. "A human piñata." In each of his subsequent assignments, he has been criticized for mistakes real and perceived. One of his principal functions is to draw lines, and the problem with drawing lines is that somebody always falls just on the other side of them. Where did the ripple effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill end? Should the people who survive mass shootings unscathed receive compensation? If a victim was alienated from a family member, does that family member still deserve a share of the death benefit? Every answer Feinberg can give is both right and wrong, but nothing he has weathered since has compared to those few minutes he spent in that chair.
The Town Hall starts raw enough. A woman named Iliana McGinnis recounts the loss of her husband, Thomas, who was on the ninety-second floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. He called her on his mobile phone, trapped. She said out loud that she believed he would get out. "Iliana, you don't understand," he told her. "There are people jumping from the floors above us."
Later comes a man named Nick Chiarchiaro, who lost his wife, Dorothy. Like many family members, he can't understand why the proposed compensation is not equal. Congress had mandated that Feinberg factor projected future earnings into each settlement, a standard practice in mass torts—but in effect making some people worth more than others, including Nick Chiarchiaro's dead wife. "Why not just set a flat number?" he asks Feinberg. "Why all the calculations?" Now there is applause. The room is heating up. Feinberg raises both his hands. "As I've told the families, I can only administer the law that is before me," he says. And so a stockbroker would necessarily be worth more than a firefighter, and a firefighter would be worth more than a dishwasher. "Is my wife worth less than the bond trader?" Chiarchiaro asks. "Well, not to me. I was married for thirty-seven years. She's worth a gazillion dollars."
Toward the end of the session, a woman named Sally Regenhard takes the microphone. She is middle-aged, with long blond hair. She is one of the members of the audience holding a photograph: Her son, Christian, was a probationary firefighter, and he looks out from her lap. She starts steadily enough ("the limitation of liability") but her voice begins rising ("those death traps") and then cracking ("those demonic cave-dwelling barbarians"), and by the end she is shouting at Feinberg, her jaw clenched, and now she is pointing at him, as though he were the one who had stripped her life of her son: "How in the name of God do you justify that?" She takes a breath. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to be harsh with you. But you're here." And then almost immediately she lights up again: "This is an American disgrace!" she screams, close to the top of her lungs.
Brokaw turns to Feinberg: "Do you have an answer?"
"I have no answer as to why Congress did what it did," Feinberg says. "I don't speak for Congress. I will just say this before I reluctantly depart—" And here Feinberg rolls his eyes and smiles, a half-smile, a wry little wink, his sense of humor peeking through his hide, and there is a scattering of laughter in the audience. The laughter sounds good; it sounds almost like relief, like some invisible pressure valve has been released. But it also sounds out of place, like thunder during a snowstorm. The camera cuts back to Sally Regenhard, and she sits hunched in her seat, clutching that photograph of her lost son, and she is staring at Feinberg, her wet eyes filled with hate.
Nine months into the job, Feinberg was still learning what he now knows by heart: The grief-stricken are open like sores, and to them everything in the world, even the hint of a smile, can feel like so much salt.
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Every tragedy, at some level, represents a cataclysmic redistribution. There are the blunt physical changes: Buildings fall and rise, architects trade monuments, blood leaves hearts for sidewalks. Millions and even billions of dollars also change direction, sometimes through government apparatus or corporate channels, sometimes through the voluntary generosity of strangers. Then there are the less tangible shifts, more metaphysical than concrete. Love pools in different and sometimes unexpected directions. New families form. Children call different men Dad. There are great swings in faith, too, sometimes the godless finding reasons to believe, and believers finding doubt. "It's amazing, the spectrum of emotion," Feinberg says. "As diverse as human nature itself."
And so he learned, fairly quickly, that not every solution would be found in his spreadsheets, that the answers he sought weren't going to be as plain as the weather. If he didn't get enough families to sign up for the September 11th fund, he risked overseeing a failure of historic proportions. If he spent billions to compensate half the families and the other half went to court, what had he achieved? While he needed to maintain some sort of order for fairness' sake—"People always count other people's money," Feinberg says—he also needed the families to feel as though their loved ones had not been reduced to ashes and simple math. Feinberg made a decision, and he has made the same decision every time out since: He offered to meet personally, one on one, with any family who wanted to discuss or appeal its award. Like the fund itself, his gesture, at least at first, was a calculated one. "It wasn't empathy," he says. "It was strategy."
His first of those meetings took place at his legal offices in New York, on the twenty-sixth floor of a skyscraper on Third Avenue. It was with a young widow, twenty-four years old. Her husband was one of the lost firefighters; together they had two children, six and four. Feinberg sat with her and a court reporter in an otherwise empty room, and she let everything out in great gasping sobs. She wasn't there to appeal her award, she said, which was close to the average settlement: about $2 million, tax-free. (In the end, Feinberg saw nearly 97 percent of the families sign on with him, distributing about $7 billion.) But she needed her check within thirty days.
Feinberg, the former Feinberg, blanched. Thirty days wasn't possible. There was paperwork. He had to justify his figures, and the Treasury Department had to approve each settlement. Bureaucracy, especially the parts of bureaucracy that write checks, just doesn't move like that. Why did she need it so fast?
"I have terminal cancer," the young widow told Feinberg. "My husband was going to survive me and take care of our two children, and now they're going to be orphans. I've got to get that money to set up a trust fund, because I'm not going to be around much longer."
Feinberg shakes his head. "That was the first one," he says. "I knew after that one, I'm in for rough sledding." He managed to accelerate the payment, and that young widow was among the first closed cases. A little more than two months later, she was dead.
The meetings continued, relentless. Incomplete family after incomplete family came to see Feinberg, usually in his New York office. He asked his quiet and gentle younger brother, David, who runs the business end of his practice, if he wanted to begin sitting in on the sessions as a kind of emotional ballast, almost as a counterweight. "I was able to get through one," David Feinberg says today. "I said, 'Ken, I can't do this.' It was a woman, there were children, they had a photo album, they were all crying. I barely made it through." Feinberg's administrative and logistical right hand, a woman of pure competence named Camille Biros—they have worked together now for more than thirty years, since they crossed paths in Ted Kennedy's Senate office—began taking her turn. "One stands out, this beautiful young woman, maybe twenty-one or twenty-two," Biros says today. The woman was among the youngest of the September 11 widows, and she brought a lawyer and her young daughter to her hearing. She didn't say much of anything during the meeting, letting her lawyer do the talking for her, and she remained almost oddly composed. When the session was over, Biros took her by the arm to walk her out, but instead the young widow walked over to the room's long glass wall and its soaring view of Manhattan. She looked down. "They must have been awfully scared when they jumped from the windows," she said, before she crumpled to the floor.
Over the course of thirty-three months, Feinberg endured more than nine hundred of those meetings. Only one—"He's done more for me dead than he ever did for me when he was alive," a less-than-bereaved widow said—was anything other than awful. He never cried during any of the meetings, but he cried after several—a dozen, fifteen, twenty, he lost count. There was the Catholic widow who herded her eleven weeping children into the room. There was the elderly father who had lost his son at the Pentagon; "I know how you feel," Feinberg had said. The old man looked deep into him. "Mr. Feinberg, I have some advice," the man began. Today Feinberg shivers at the memory. "I'll never do that again," he says.
But the worst of the meetings, the one that still haunts Feinberg in his waking hours if not in his dreams, was another young widow of another firefighter, with another three fatherless children. She was crying so hard from the beginning that Feinberg worried she was going to collapse. Between heaves, she told Feinberg about her perfect husband, the love she would never replace: the family cook, the constant gardener, the dream father, Mr. Mom. "My life is over," she told him. "I'll never be the same."
The next day, Feinberg got a call from a lawyer. He asked whether Feinberg had recently met with the firefighter's widow with the three children. Feinberg said that he had, just the day before. "Now, look, Mr. Feinberg, you've got a tough job," the lawyer said. "I don't envy the decisions you have to make. But I have to tell you: She doesn't know that Mr. Mom has two other kids by his girlfriend in Queens. And when you cut your check, there aren't three surviving children. There are five surviving children. I'm sure you'll do the right thing."
Feinberg is a lousy sleeper anyway. Most mornings, he's out the door and off to work shortly after five o'clock. But that particular dilemma—should he tell her, or pay both families and never say a word?—led to many nights when Feinberg would go through the motions of sleep without falling asleep. Would it help her in her grief to lessen that perfect man in her eyes, or might that lessening tip an already broken woman over some terrible edge? Should those three children know their two half-siblings, living just across town, or should first families be kept forever separate from secret ones? "That one shook me to my core," he says.
Whether he can see the differences or not, Feinberg was changed by those meetings. The master planner had overlooked his strategy's most essential calculation: There is only so much weight one man can carry. Dede says his work has made him more empathetic—a better man in many ways. Those meetings boiled the win-seeking lawyer out of him. Camille Biros believes they left him one of the world's most practiced and gracious listeners. Feinberg's youngest son, Andrew, says that he watched his father age dramatically during those thirty-three months. Feinberg himself admits that he has never gone to the memorial at Ground Zero, has never looked into the twin waterfalls or run his hands over the thousands of stamped-out names, so many of which he would remember. "I never want to go back there," he says. In fact, he has never returned to any of the scenes of the tragedies he's tried to undo, the black stains on our maps, including that torn-up stretch of sidewalk in Boston. He has tried to separate himself and his work like that firefighter and his twin families. But the dead have a way of cracking open even the most secure safes.
Feinberg gets one bouquet of flowers or a box of candy, some small gift, every September 11. He does not know who sends it, which one of the nine hundred families remembers him and what he did. He suspects they are from a woman, a widow, but he can't be certain. More than anything else, that's what those sessions took from him, his own cataclysmic redistribution: He is less certain than he once was.
He used to feel as though he was in control of his fate, but he looks back at the unforeseen turns in his life, at the accidents that brought him from there to here, and he remembers the terrifying interruptions he's witnessed in the lives of others, and he doesn't feel in control anymore. "I'm much more fatalistic," he says. "Over time I've come to realize in a very stark way how difficult it is to choose your destiny. Life is not linear." His horizon once spanned his entire lifetime, which he'd always presumed would last something like the statistical norm. Now he doesn't look much more than two weeks ahead. The man who has dedicated his life to making hard decisions now routinely abdicates the largest of them. He's not even sure the funds he's administered should have existed. "Bad things happen to good people every day," he says. Why do those bad things happen when they do, and why is our collective response to them just as unpredictable? Why do some who die suddenly and horribly deserve compensation and public keening while others do not? "I'd like to think that there's some religious coordination of what's going on in this world, but I don't know," Feinberg says. "That's for the philosophers, I guess."
He cut two checks.
On Thursday evenings and Friday mornings, Feinberg disappears into a classroom at Harvard Law School. His legal practice now employs a quarter of the people it once did. He rarely takes on the corporate work that used to occupy him. "It just didn't seem important enough," he says. Today he very occasionally mediates a nonlethal dispute; he recently advised Penn State on the terms of its settlement fund for the victims of Jerry Sandusky. Otherwise he waits for his phone to buzz with bad news and fills the gaps with antidotes. Teaching is one of them.
"What an incredible change of pace," he says, walking up the steps of Langdell Hall late on a beautiful fall afternoon. There are no gunmen waiting in his classroom. There are only eager students in crimson sweatshirts, a blessed, hundred-strong platoon of promise and privilege. Feinberg takes off his jacket. For him, teaching is a physical exercise as well as a mental one. He will pace the front of the room or stride up the aisles, his voice echoing off the ceiling, his arms waving through the air. For two perfect hours, he will play the part of Professor Feinberg, the sun pouring through the windows his spotlight, and he will be released.
"Okay, everybody, let's get started," he says. He does not make their lives easy. "I have to tell you, counselor," Feinberg says, raising his own voice when one student doesn't speak loudly enough, "NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR YOU." He walks up to students and pins them to imaginary walls, providing the counters to their reasoning, almost physically challenging them to stand their ground in the face of his considerable opposition. He is trying to erase the doubt in their hearts and replace it with the certainty he once knew.
There is a case to be made that by meeting the victims of tragedy and their families, Feinberg made his greatest mistake—that their scars and tears are the worst kind of prejudicial evidence, ruining his cold judgment, sapping him of his clinical strengths. "That's probably right," he will say later. Maybe the accounting he does is better left to other men in other rooms. Just as the military divides the tasks of cleaning a dead soldier's personal effects and preparing his body for burial—the same person never does both—maybe our special masters shouldn't be tending to the living when they're meant to be counting the dead.
But now in front of his class, Feinberg speaks to the limits of numbers and what they might prove. At school-board meetings and in ballparks, statistics can constitute the entire argument, but not, he says, in a court of law. He brings up the case of a late-night hit-and-run involving a bus. Only one company operated a bus on that route at that time of night. The odds were overwhelming that the bus in question was that company's bus. Was that enough to bring the company to trial? "Absolutely not," Feinberg says, his hand slapping his desk for emphasis. "We want witnesses, not just statistics. We want human beings. We are not calculating machines. We are not some assembly line of math."
Feinberg does apply a formula to his grim tasks, the by-product of his unique wisdom. In some ways, his work just across the river in reeling Boston was the culmination of everything he knows and no longer knows. The bombs went off. Americans started writing checks. Feinberg made sure there was a 501(c)(3) set up, called the One Fund Boston, and eight-year-old Martin Richard, holding up a sign that read NO MORE HURTING PEOPLE, became the heartbreaking face of this latest senselessness, and around-the-clock media coverage and impassioned speeches from Mayor Thomas Menino and Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz saw more than $60 million pour in—the most Feinberg has distributed from a donor-driven fund—and then the special master allotted the money in a fair and equitable manner to the victims of yet another modern American calamity. The families of the dead received the most, and they all received the same amount. (Since September 11, Feinberg believes that no life or death should be worth more than any other.) He determined that losing two limbs was exactly twice as bad as losing one, and that losing a leg or an arm was equally unfortunate. Rather than trying to measure pain or the relativity of other injuries—nobody shares the same scale—he used the objective standard of suffering he first employed at Virginia Tech: nights spent in the hospital. "It's rough justice," he says, but in a remarkable sixty-seven days he got all the money out the door.
And yet he still met with the victims who wanted to meet with him. He still held public meetings, during which he took a breath and assumed his customary role of human piñata. This time around, he was especially wobbled after a hospital visit with a racked man who told Feinberg he could keep his money; he just wanted his fucking leg back. Feinberg knows better than most that some damage can never be fixed. But he also knows that we still want our witnesses.
"Good job, counselors," Feinberg says, pulling on his jacket. "Good job." He leaves Langdell Hall and heads out into the night. He pulls his phone from his pocket. There is a new e-mail from someone asking him for belated advice on how to distribute $300,000 raised for the families of the thirteen killed during the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas. And there is another e-mail from someone who needs help setting up a fund for the nineteen firefighters burned alive in the hills near Prescott, Arizona. The classroom respite was nice while it lasted. Two hours, and thirty-two more men and women, aged nineteen to sixty-three, have appeared in Kenneth Feinberg's in-box, in the little glowing graveyard in his pocket.
But for two hours, at least, he did not think about the man sitting pale and stricken in a wheelchair, both of his lower legs blown apart to the bone ($2.2 million). He did not wonder about the last moments of the doomed executive, falling from such a terrible height ($7 million). He did not flash back to that Vietnam veteran, coughing and riddled with tumors ($20,000). He did not catch mental glimpses of the bodies spread across those four classrooms in Virginia ($208,000 each), or the bodies on the floor of that theater in Colorado ($220,000 each), or the bodies, twenty of them very small, inside that elementary school in Connecticut ($281,000 each).
During the worst of his work, his only real rest, his only moments of true escape, come in darkened concert halls. Several nights a week, during those thirty-three months in particular, he would find an opera or a symphony—it didn't matter what they were performing or playing, so long as it was music, and so long as it was beautiful—and he would drop into his seat surrounded by the unburdened. He loved going to the opera especially, "the height of our civilization," he says.
Even today, the satellite radio in his office is usually on, and it's usually tuned to endless loops of opera, washing out from under his door. That's true at home, too, and Dede sometimes complains that the music is so loud she can't hear herself think, forgetting that might be its purpose. Men might fly airplanes into towers and vaporize secretaries sitting at their desks, and they might shoot dozens of their fellow students, and they might blow up children and waitresses with pressure cookers, but they are also capable of magic. And on those late nights at the opera or the symphony, almost without fail, Feinberg would hear the first few notes out of a tenor, or he would hear the strings rise up around him, and his face would open up, and he would feel the warmth flow into him like medicine, and within a minute or two he would be gone, disappearing into the deepest of sleeps.
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David L. Feinberg
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Michael Rozen is a Founder and co-Managing Partner of TRGP Investment Partners LP, and is responsible for overall corporate management and oversight, deal sourcing, investment selection, portfolio construction, and commercial litigation initiatives. Michael is also a member of TRGP’s Board of Directors, co-Chair of the Board of Human Rights First and member of the Board, New York State Urban Development Corporation. From November 2016 until early 2021 Michael was the Chair of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Prior to forming TRGP in 2015, Michael was a partner in the renowned boutique law firm Feinberg Rozen, LLP where he was nationally recognized as a leading strategist and negotiator of complex, multi-party disputes. Among many engagements throughout his lengthy legal career, Michael was Deputy Special Master of the United States government’s 09/11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, Deputy Administrator of BP’s Gulf Coast Compensation Fund and outside resolution counsel for Penn State University during the Sandusky sexual assault scandal.
He holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a J.D. from Georgetown University
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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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Jacqueline E Zins
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Jacqueline E. Zins Sets Aug. 5 Bridal
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Dr. and Mrs. Eugene I. Zins of Maplewood, N.J., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jacqueline Ellen Zins, to Gerson Zweifach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Zweifach of Lawrence, L.I.
An Aug. 5 wedding is planned in Edgartowm, Mass.
Miss Zins is a law clerk to Federal Court Judge Whitman Knapp of New York. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and last June from the Yale Law School, where her fiancé is a senior and notes editor of The Law Journal. Miss Zins' father is an internist.
Mr. Zweifach graduated summa cum laude from Brown University. After his graduation from Yale in June he expects to be a law clerk to Federal Court Judge Pierre Leval of New York. Mr. Zweifach's father is an industrial analyst.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| Assumed office June 17, 2021 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Merrick Garland |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
| In office March 26, 2013 – June 17, 2021 | |
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Henry H. Kennedy Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission | |
| In office 2010–2014 | |
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Michael E. Horowitz |
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| Born | Ketanji Onyika Brown September 14, 1970 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (AB, JD) |
Ketanji Brown Jackson (born September 14, 1970)[1] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[2] She was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2013 to 2021. Jackson has also been Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission from 2010 to 2014 and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers since 2016.
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Miami, Florida, Jackson attended Harvard University for college and law school, and served as an editor on the Harvard Law Review. She began her legal career with three clerkships, including with Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Early life and education
Ketanji Onyika Brown was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C.,[3] and raised in Miami, Florida.[4] Her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown,[5] were both HBCU graduates[3] and worked as an attorney and school principal, respectively.[6] Jackson attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School from 1984 until 1988, where she was a national oratory champion.[7] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in government from Harvard University in 1992 and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996,[4] where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.[8] Jackson served as a law clerk for three federal judges, including U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Patti B. Saris (1996–1997) and U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya (1997–1998). She then clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 until 2000.[4][9]
Career
Jackson worked in private legal practice from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2003.[10] From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.[11]
From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[12] From 2007 to 2010, Jackson was an appellate litigator at Morrison & Foerster.[10][9]
Appointment to U.S. Sentencing Commission
On July 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.[13] The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014.[14][9] During Jackson's time on the Sentencing Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses,[2] and it enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.[15]
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On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr., who retired on November 18, 2011.[16] On January 2, 2013, her nomination was returned to Obama because the Senate adjourned sine die. On January 3, 2013, she was renominated to the same office, and on February 14, 2013, her nomination was reported to the full Senate by voice vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.[17] She was confirmed by the full Senate by voice vote on the legislative day of March 22, 2013. She received her commission on March 26, 2013.[9]
During her time on the District Court, she issued multiple rulings against the Trump administration.[18]
Notable rulings
- On September 11, 2013, in American Meat Institute v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jackson declined to enjoin a U.S. Department of Agriculture rule preliminarily that required meatpackers to identify the animal's country of origin. She found that the rule likely did not violate the First Amendment.[19]
- On September 5, 2014, in Depomed v. Department of Health and Human Services, Jackson ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it failed to grant pharmaceutical company Depomed market exclusivity for its orphan drug, Gralise, despite the fact that Gralise met the statutory requirements for exclusivity under the Orphan Drug Act.[20]
- On September 11, 2015, in Pierce v. District of Columbia, Jackson ruled that the D.C. Department of Corrections violated the rights of a deaf inmate under the Americans with Disabilities Act because jail officials failed to assess the inmate's need for accommodations when he first arrived at the jail.[21]
- In April and June 2018, Jackson presided over two cases challenging the Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to terminate grants for teen pregnancy prevention programs two years early.[22] Jackson ruled that the decision to terminate the grants early, without any explanation for doing so, was arbitrary and capricious.[23]
- On August 15, 2018, in AFGE, AFL-CIO v. Trump, Jackson invalidated provisions of three executive orders that would have limited the time federal employee labor union officials could spend with union members, the issues that unions could bargain over in negotiations, and the rights of disciplined workers to appeal disciplinary actions.[24]
- On November 23, 2018, Jackson held that 40 lawsuits stemming from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which had been combined into a single multidistrict litigation, should be brought in Malaysia, not the United States.[25][26]
- On September 4, 2019, in Center for Biological Diversity v. McAleenan, Jackson held that Congress had stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear non-constitutional challenges to the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to waive certain environmental requirements to facilitate construction of a border wall on the United States and Mexico border.[27]
- On September 29, 2019, Jackson issued a preliminary injunction in Make The Road New York v. McAleenan, blocking an agency rule that would have expanded "fast-track" deportations without immigration court hearings for undocumented immigrants.[28] Jackson found that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had violated the Administrative Procedure Act because its decision was arbitrary and capricious and the agency did not seek public comment before issuing the rule, which made Jackson set aside the rule.[29]
- On November 25, 2019, Jackson issued a ruling in Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives v. McGahn in which the House Committee on the Judiciary sued Don McGahn, former White House Counsel for the Trump administration, to compel him to comply with the subpoena to appear at a hearing on its impeachment inquiry on issues of alleged obstruction of justice by the administration. McGahn declined to comply with the subpoena after U.S. President Donald Trump, relying on a legal theory of executive testimonial immunity, ordered McGahn not to testify. In a lengthy opinion, Jackson ruled in favor of the House Committee and held that senior-level presidential aides "who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress must appear for testimony in response to that subpoena" even if the President orders them not to do so.[30] Jackson rejected the administration's assertion of executive testimonial immunity by holding that "with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist."[31] According to Jackson, that conclusion was "inescapable precisely because compulsory appearance by dint of a subpoena is a legal construct, not a political one, and per the Constitution, no one is above the law."[31][32][33] Jackson's use of the phrase "presidents are not kings" gained popular attention in subsequent media reporting on the ruling.[34][35][36][37] The ruling has been appealed by the U.S. Department of Justice.[38]
Court of appeals service
On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jackson to serve as a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[39] On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Jackson to the seat vacated by Judge Merrick Garland, who retired on March 11, 2021, to become Attorney General.[40] On April 28, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[41] On May 20, 2021, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 13–9 vote.[42] On June 10, 2021, cloture was invoked on her nomination by a vote of 52–46.[43] On June 14, 2021, the United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 53-44 vote.[44] She received her judicial commission on June 17, 2021.[45]
Community involvement
Jackson is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services as well as the Harvard University's Board of Overseers and the Council of the American Law Institute.[46] She also currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School,[47] the board of the D.C. Circuit Historical Society,[46] and the U.S. Supreme Court Fellows Commission.[48]
Jackson has served as a judge in several mock trials with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. In 2019, she joined a panel composed of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer and Judges Patricia Millett and Stephanos Bibas to hear a case based on The Oresteia.[49][50] In 2017, Jackson and Judges Merrick Garland, David Tatel, Thomas Griffith, and Robert Wilkins heard a case based on Twelfth Night.[51][52] In 2016, along with Justice Samuel Alito, then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and Judges Thomas Griffith and Robert Wilkins, Jackson heard a case based on Romeo and Juliet.[53][54] Jackson also presided over a mock trial, hosted by Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law in 2018, "to determine if Vice President Aaron Burr was guilty of murdering" Alexander Hamilton.[55]
Jackson regularly serves as a judge for the Historical Society of the District of Columbia's Mock Court Program, which brings D.C. high school students to the federal courthouse to present oral arguments in First and Fourth Amendment cases.[56][57] In 2018, Jackson participated as a panelist at the National Constitution Center's town hall on the legacy of Alexander Hamilton.[58]
Jackson has also spoken at various law schools. In 2017, Jackson presented at the University of Georgia School of Law's 35th Edith House Lecture.[59] In 2020, Jackson gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture at the University of Michigan Law School[60] and was honored at the University of Chicago Law School’s third annual Judge James B. Parsons Legacy Dinner, which was hosted by the school's Black Law Students Association.[61] In 2016, Jackson served as a judge during Yale Law School's Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals competition.[62]
Possible appointment to U.S. Supreme Court
On February 26, 2016, the National Law Journal reported that Obama administration officials were vetting Jackson as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.[63] In March 2016, the Washington Post[64] and the Associated Press[65] confirmed that information, and Reuters reported that Jackson was one of five candidates interviewed as a potential nominee for the vacancy.[66]
It has been speculated that President Joe Biden could nominate Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court should he have the opportunity to select a new justice during the 117th United States Congress.[67][68][69][70]
Personal life
In 1996, Jackson married Patrick G. Jackson, a surgeon and the twin brother of former-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's brother-in-law.[71][72] They have two daughters.
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.
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.
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.
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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Charles Wolf
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?
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.
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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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Female District Leader
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Vice Presidents
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Treasurer
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Recording Secretary
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Tau Epsilon Phi is a national men’s fraternity founded at Columbia University in New York City in 1910 on the principles of friendship, chivalry and service. Formed by a group of 10 Jewish men who were excluded from membership in other fraternities due to their faith, they dedicated themselves to building an organization free from discrimination.
Tau Epsilon Phi can now be found along the East Coast of the US from Maine to Florida, and as far west as Indiana. ΤΕΦ continues to look at reopening chapters nationwide.
Mission Statement
TO TEACH young men that there is more to be gained out of life by serving others. That friendships are of greater value than material wealth or gain. That man is a social creature who needs to share with others to do so willingly and freely. That a group is dependent on all of its members to contribute to the good of the whole rather than to work only for self-serving interests. This is the ambition of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO PROVIDE the forum through fraternity for our ambitions to be heard and practiced. For the atmosphere where cooperation and giving can develop and flourish. For a meeting place to share ideals and from which these dreams may be a springboard into reality. For a common voice through the fraternity that others may know our accomplishments and our aspiration for the benefit of all men. This is the basis of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO GIVE to others without selfish thought of gain or personal advancement. To our brothers knowing that others that follow will be the ones to reap the benefits of the seeds we sow more than we will. To our friends so that they may always know in their hearts and minds that they have someone upon whom they may depend in time of need. To our neighbors so that the community of man may be a little better for our having been there. This is the directive of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO CREATE a better society where men have learned to value others as they value themselves. An opportunity for young men to learn the message of Tau Epsilon Phi and, having learned it, to teach others. An organization that can and will be proud of the accomplishments of its members and itself without the arrogance that pride often brings. A hope for a better social community of man and to work to bring its hopes to reality. This is the goal of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO HAVE a membership who respect one another and the organization for which they all stand. An organization that is not afraid to speak its mind but, at the same time, is willing to understand the needs and dreams of others. Members who practice the ideals of fraternalism and live by the creed of Tau Epsilon Phi as a matter of course because they believe in its values. Friends, neighbors and associates with whom a trust and understanding that needs no words exists. This is the mission of Tau Epsilon Phi.
Contact Us
For infomation regarding Tau Epsilon Phi you can write directly to the chair of the committee that is the most relevant to your issue:
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc.
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| Function | Focus Area | Chair |
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| Executive Director | All fraternity matters | Tim Smith |
| Governance | TEP constitution and by-laws | Charles Wolf |
| Chapters | Re-chartering of inactive chapters; chapter eligibility; risk management & insurance | Tim Smith |
| Alumni Relations | Alumni activities and organizations | Mark Abramson |
| Finance | Financial matters / dues | Donald Anspauch |
| Web Site | Web content / corrections | Tim Smith |
| Charles Wolf |
Tim Smith
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 97thFloor 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 11thVictim 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.
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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Subject: RE: FWD YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is possibly
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From: "O'Toole, Erin - M.P." <Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:57:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is
possibly dropped today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy
watching ths video beginng at the 50 minute mark Nesy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
On behalf of the Hon. Erin O’Toole, thank you for contacting the
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition.
Mr. O’Toole greatly values feedback and input from Canadians. We read
and review every incoming e-mail. Please note that this account
receives a high volume of e-mails. We reply to e-mails as quickly as
possible.
If you are a constituent of Mr. O’Toole’s in Durham with an urgent
matter please contact his constituency office at:
Office of Erin O’Toole, M.P.
54 King Street East, Suite 103
Bowmanville, ON L1C 1N3
Tel: (905) 697-1699 or Toll-Free (866) 436-1141
Once again, thank you for writing.
Sincerely,
Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition
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Au nom de l’hon. Erin O’Toole, merci de communiquer avec le Bureau du
chef de l’Opposition officielle.
M. O’Toole apprécie beaucoup le point de vue et les commentaires des
Canadiens et des Canadiennes. Nous lisons tous les courriels que nous
recevons. Veuillez noter que ce compte reçoit beaucoup de courriels.
Nous y répondons le plus rapidement possible.
Si vous êtes un électeur ou une électrice de M. O’Toole dans la
circonscription de Durham et que vous avez une question urgente,
veuillez communiquer avec son bureau de circonscription, au :
Bureau d’Erin O’Toole, député
54, rue King Est, bureau 103
Bowmanville (Ontario) L1C 1N3
Tél. : (905) 697-1699 ou sans frais : (866) 436-1141
Encore une fois merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire.
Veuillez agréer nos salutations distinguées,
Bureau du chef de l’Opposition officielle
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:57:37 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is
possibly dropped today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy
watching ths video beginng at the 50 minute mark Nesy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
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nous avoir fait part de vos idées, commentaires et observations.
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Deja Vu or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Me, Myself and I
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Apr 2, 2013
David Amos
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NDP gets help from democracy expert
CBC News · Posted: Jan 09, 2006 4:23 PM AT
An international expert on democracy has flown all the way from Egypt
to help NDP candidate John Carty campaign in Fredericton.
Dominic Cardy is with a group called The National Democratic
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Jimmy Carter. The group's mission is to teach democratic values and
spread democracy around the world.
Cardy has taught about democracy in Algeria, Bangladesh, and Cambodia
during the past few years. When he heard his friend John Carty was
running for office back in his home town of Fredericton, he hopped on
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Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28
elections over 101 years
CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM AT
Four candidats are running in the federal riding of Fundy-Royal. Green
candidate Stephanie Coburn, NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie, Liberal
candidate Alaina Lockhart and Conservative candidate Rob Moore.
(Courtesy of Stephanie Coburn, Jennifer McKenzie/Facebook, Alaina
Lockhart/Facebook, CBC)
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Campaign, Rogers TV
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Federal debate in Fundy Royal, New Brunswick riding featuring
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McKenzie and David Amos.
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:57:33 -0300
Subject: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is possibly dropped
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 17:49:10 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Methinks Trudeau The Younger and his CBC minions
underestimate the fury of upset Maritimers Nesy Pas?
To: cwolf@tep.org
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Tau Epsilon Phi is a national men’s fraternity founded at Columbia University in New York City in 1910 on the principles of friendship, chivalry and service. Formed by a group of 10 Jewish men who were excluded from membership in other fraternities due to their faith, they dedicated themselves to building an organization free from discrimination.
Tau Epsilon Phi can now be found along the East Coast of the US from Maine to Florida, and as far west as Indiana. ΤΕΦ continues to look at reopening chapters nationwide.
Mission Statement
TO TEACH young men that there is more to be gained out of life by serving others. That friendships are of greater value than material wealth or gain. That man is a social creature who needs to share with others to do so willingly and freely. That a group is dependent on all of its members to contribute to the good of the whole rather than to work only for self-serving interests. This is the ambition of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO PROVIDE the forum through fraternity for our ambitions to be heard and practiced. For the atmosphere where cooperation and giving can develop and flourish. For a meeting place to share ideals and from which these dreams may be a springboard into reality. For a common voice through the fraternity that others may know our accomplishments and our aspiration for the benefit of all men. This is the basis of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO GIVE to others without selfish thought of gain or personal advancement. To our brothers knowing that others that follow will be the ones to reap the benefits of the seeds we sow more than we will. To our friends so that they may always know in their hearts and minds that they have someone upon whom they may depend in time of need. To our neighbors so that the community of man may be a little better for our having been there. This is the directive of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO CREATE a better society where men have learned to value others as they value themselves. An opportunity for young men to learn the message of Tau Epsilon Phi and, having learned it, to teach others. An organization that can and will be proud of the accomplishments of its members and itself without the arrogance that pride often brings. A hope for a better social community of man and to work to bring its hopes to reality. This is the goal of Tau Epsilon Phi.
TO HAVE a membership who respect one another and the organization for which they all stand. An organization that is not afraid to speak its mind but, at the same time, is willing to understand the needs and dreams of others. Members who practice the ideals of fraternalism and live by the creed of Tau Epsilon Phi as a matter of course because they believe in its values. Friends, neighbors and associates with whom a trust and understanding that needs no words exists. This is the mission of Tau Epsilon Phi.
Contact Us
For infomation regarding Tau Epsilon Phi you can write directly to the chair of the committee that is the most relevant to your issue:
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity, Inc.
400 Broadway, #718
Troy, NY 12181
| Function | Focus Area | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Director | All fraternity matters | Tim Smith |
| Governance | TEP constitution and by-laws | Charles Wolf |
| Chapters | Re-chartering of inactive chapters; chapter eligibility; risk management & insurance | Tim Smith |
| Alumni Relations | Alumni activities and organizations | Mark Abramson |
| Finance | Financial matters / dues | Donald Anspauch |
| Web Site | Web content / corrections | Tim Smith |
| Charles Wolf |
Tim Smith
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 97thFloor 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 11thVictim 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.
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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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 17:49:10 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Methinks Trudeau The Younger and his CBC minions
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Methinks Trudeau The Younger and his CBC minions underestimate the
fury of upset Maritimers Nesy Pas?
The LIEbranos did not show much respect towards their provincial
betheran seeking another mandate by dropping a frederal writ just
before their polling day. That faux pas may cost them dearly
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotians head to polls today as provincial election race tightens
Liberals seeking 3rd straight majority, but campaign has stumbled at times
Michael Gorman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 17, 2021 5:00 AM AT
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:33:38 +0000
Subject: RE: FWD YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is possibly
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---------- Original message ----------
From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:32:21 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: FWD YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ
is possibly dropped today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "O'Toole, Erin - M.P." <Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:57:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is
possibly dropped today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy
watching ths video beginng at the 50 minute mark Nesy Pas?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
On behalf of the Hon. Erin O’Toole, thank you for contacting the
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Au nom de l’hon. Erin O’Toole, merci de communiquer avec le Bureau du
chef de l’Opposition officielle.
M. O’Toole apprécie beaucoup le point de vue et les commentaires des
Canadiens et des Canadiennes. Nous lisons tous les courriels que nous
recevons. Veuillez noter que ce compte reçoit beaucoup de courriels.
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Bureau du chef de l’Opposition officielle
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 13:57:37 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is
possibly dropped today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy
watching ths video beginng at the 50 minute mark Nesy Pas?
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Deja Vu or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Me, Myself and I
342 views
Apr 2, 2013
David Amos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
NDP gets help from democracy expert
CBC News · Posted: Jan 09, 2006 4:23 PM AT
An international expert on democracy has flown all the way from Egypt
to help NDP candidate John Carty campaign in Fredericton.
Dominic Cardy is with a group called The National Democratic
Institute. Its members include such people as former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter. The group's mission is to teach democratic values and
spread democracy around the world.
Cardy has taught about democracy in Algeria, Bangladesh, and Cambodia
during the past few years. When he heard his friend John Carty was
running for office back in his home town of Fredericton, he hopped on
a plane.
"It was a strange experience," Cardy said. "One evening I was watching
the sun go down over the pyramids, and the next evening watched it go
down over Fredericton airport as I came into land."
Cardy is no relation to the NDP candidate. But he loves elections and
loves getting people pumped up about democracy.
Carty the candidate is running against federal Indian Affairs Minister
Andy Scott, Conservative Pat Lynch, Green candidate Philip Duchastel
and independent David Amos. The riding has sent Scott to Ottawa for
the last four elections, despite the best efforts of the other
parties.
Cardy says he doesn't care how tough the race his – he just wants
people to participate in the process. "People have forgotten how
incredibly precious these gifts that our ancestors fought for are and
were just giving them away. It makes me furious when I talk to people
and people just say 'ah there's no point in voting.'"
After election day, Dominic Cardy is flying back home to his wife in
Kathmandu, Nepal. He hopes to leave behind a new Member of Parliament
for Fredericton, his friend John Carty for the NDP.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
Go Figure
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Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28
elections over 101 years
CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM AT
Four candidats are running in the federal riding of Fundy-Royal. Green
candidate Stephanie Coburn, NDP candidate Jennifer McKenzie, Liberal
candidate Alaina Lockhart and Conservative candidate Rob Moore.
(Courtesy of Stephanie Coburn, Jennifer McKenzie/Facebook, Alaina
Lockhart/Facebook, CBC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Fundy Royal, New Brunswick Debate – Federal Elections 2015 - The Local
Campaign, Rogers TV
9,133 views
Oct 2, 2015
Rogers tv
72.7K subscribers
Federal debate in Fundy Royal, New Brunswick riding featuring
candidates Rob Moore, Stephanie Coburn, Alaina Lockhart, Jennifer
McKenzie and David Amos.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:57:33 -0300
Subject: YO Erin O’Toole Methinks before the writ is possibly dropped
today you and Trudeau The Younger should enjoy watching ths video
beginng at the 50 minute mark Nesy Pas?
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Election soon, or election later? For Trudeau, it's a gamble either way
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:02:43 -0300
Subject: Fwd: RE Navdeep Bains National Campaign Co-Chair Liberal
Party of Canada
To: info@electsingh.com, naval@navalbajaj.ca, info@medhajoshi.ca,
info@ramandeepbrar.ca, info@jermainechambers.ca,
votegraceadamu@gmail.com, info@james4erinmills.ca,
michaelrascpc@gmail.com, voterattan@gmail.com,
Kerry@kerryforoakville.com, info@hananrizkalla.ca
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:32:53 -0300
Subject: RE Navdeep Bains National Campaign Co-Chair Liberal Party of Canada
To: joel.wittnebel@thepointer.com, iqwindergaheer.lib@gmail.com,
natasha.oneill@thepointer.com, paudel.bijay20@gmail.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
https://davidraymondamos3.
https://thepointer.com/
https://thepointer.com/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:04:33 -0300
Subject: Mr Sanderson I called you and Mr MacDonald and left a
messages about Wayne Easter and Bankers etc Correct?
To: jody@jodysanderson.ca, Erin.OToole@parl.gc.ca,
hmacdonald1346@gmail.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "steve.murphy"
<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "wayne.easter"
<wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca>, anna.keenan@greenparty.ca,
craig.nash@ndp.ca, premier <premier@ontario.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.ab.ca>, Office of the Premier <scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>,
PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier <premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier
<premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.pe.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, premier <premier@gov.yk.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.nl.ca>, "Ian.Shugart" <Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>,
"Kevin.leahy" <Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
This the file I mentioned
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
Here is an old blog containing the text of an important letter 15 years ago
http://davidamos.blogspot.com/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/
Scroll down for more info about Banking and lawsuits etc
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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A champion for a better future in Malpeque
Heath MacDonald and Justin Trudeau are the only team with a real plan
to grow our economy, protect people’s health, protect a clean
environment, and make life better for families right here in our
community.
While Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives are focused on going backward with
cuts to vital services that families rely on, Liberals will keep
moving forward with bold action to create good new jobs, invest in the
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real and fair chance at success.
Together, we can elect a dedicated Liberal Member of Parliament to
work with Justin Trudeau to build a better future for everyone.
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A father, husband, community volunteer, and former international
banker who grew up on the family farm in York Point. He is running to
be your next MP for Malpeque.
A proven leader with a collaborative mindset and commitment to
excellence in everything he undertakes, Jody is running to help
rebuild and strengthen the economy and community of Malpeque.
Born on Prince Edward Island, Jody grew up on the Sanderson family
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Wayne Easter should be able to explain why the webcast and transcript
are still missing and Trudeau should be able to explain my lawsuit
https://www.banking.senate.
Full Committee Hearing
Review of Current Investigations and Regulatory Actions Regarding the
Mutual Fund Industry
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003
Witness Panel 1
Mr. Stephen M. Cutler
Director - Division of Enforcement
Securities and Exchange Commission
Mr. Robert Glauber
Chairman and CEO
National Association of Securities Dealers
Eliot Spitzer
Attorney General
State of New York
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:30:48 -0300
Subject: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy Casey to
check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust that it is
is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys etc
To: PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs" <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca, Naomi.Shelton@novascotia.ca,
gary.burrill@nsndp.ca, larry.duchesne@nsndp.ca,
lauren.skabar@nsndp.ca, feedback@nsndp.ca,
campaign.manager@greenpartyns.
provincial.admin@greenpartyns.
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Katie.Telford"
<Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, "Kevin.leahy"
<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Gorman"
<Michael.Gorman@cbc.ca>, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
electivandrouin@gmail.com, trainorgreenpartyns@gmail.com,
anthony.edmonds@greenpartyns.
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Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, office@liberal.ns.ca
Deja Vu Anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
---------- Original message ----------
From: Justice Minister <JUSTMIN@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:35:48 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big
Bad Billy Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached
Trust that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my
Harleys etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Thank you for your email to the Minister of Justice. Please be assured
that it has been received by the Department. Your email will be
reviewed and addressed accordingly. Thank you.
---------- Original message ----------
From: Premier <PREMIER@novascotia.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:35:48 +0000
Subject: Thank you for your email to Premier Rankin
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)" <Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:40:58 +0000
Subject: RE: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust
that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys
etc
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:35:28 -0300
Subject: RE: Yo Premier Iain Rankin tell your buddy Big Bad Billy
Casey to check out my old Chevy in the photo hereto attached Trust
that it is is still registered in Nova Scotia along with my Harleys
etc
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<office@liberal.ns.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
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<Kevin.leahy@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Michael.Gorman"
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electivandrouin@gmail.com, trainorgreenpartyns@gmail.com,
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July t2
Exactly 10 years ago today, at 1:07 PM, CFTA 107.9 began transmitting
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few weeks later, we sent up a temporary studio in an old GMC van at
the tower site, that allowed limited live shows until our studios in
Victoria Court were up and running. Shortly after we signed on, this
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Tory Rushton
Congratulations
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MLA Cumberland South
July 14, 2018 - Present
Cumbland South
June 19, 2018 - Present
Former Electrician at Oxford Frozen Foods
Oxford, Nova Scotia
Former Fire Chief/Fire Inspector at Town of Oxford
Oxford, Nova Scotia
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Cumberland North
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CFTA, Tantramar FM. He is also a long-time volunteer with Scouts
Canada and various fire departments, including Leicester and Amherst.
David and his wife Dale live in Amherst.
David's priorities for Cumberland North include:
Improving access to healthcare, mental healthcare, long-term care
and ambulance services
Helping our rural economy thrive by improving infrastructure such
as Internet service and road repairs
Increasing educational opportunities for all levels of student abilities
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Cumberland North pits high-profile Independent vs. former 7-term MP
Newcomers for the PCs and NDP, meanwhile, hope to shake things up in
border district
Michael Gorman · CBC News · Posted: Aug 10, 2021 6:00 AM AT
While some people see this as a two-person race, David Wightman and
Lauren Skabar are hoping to change that.
Running for the Progressive Conservatives, Wightman has had some
catching up to do because of his late entry into the campaign.
Election materials were late arriving, and while Smith-McCrossin and
Casey signs pepper the district, Wightman only recently started
putting his up.
But he's hoping a platform that focuses on health care, along with
community anger directed at the Liberals, will hold him in good stead.
"I think the Liberals have had their turn to try and fix things, and I
think they've only gotten worse," he said, pointing to the growing
wait list of people looking for a family doctor.
While he expresses interest in working on a variety of issues,
Wightman said health care is top of mind for him as a stroke survivor
and because his wife went through treatment for cancer. There are
aspects of the system unique to that region that Wightman hopes to
address.
"One of the things I'd like to see is a better approach to how to get
people to medical appointments that are travelling back and forth
across the [New Brunswick] border," he said.
A time to unite
Skabar is the NDP candidate. Her father, Brian, was elected in the
district in 2009 as part of the NDP's surge to power, but she said
politics was in her blood long before that.
Health care for the area is a major issue, said Skabar, given routine
emergency department closures at community sites and difficulties
getting enough nurses and doctors to the region.
"Until we start incentivizing health-care professionals coming to
places like Cumberland North and our smaller communities, we aren't
going to see any improvements," she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotia Liberals promise vaccine passport system if re-elected
ScotiaPass would be voluntary for individuals, businesses and other
organizations
Jean Laroche · CBC News · Posted: Aug 09, 2021 12:15 PM AT
"Both Houston and Burrill were critical of Rankin dropping this idea
in the midst of an election campaign.
"I don't think it indicates the kind of grasp and soundness that we
would look to see from a party that seeks to govern the province,"
said Burrill.
Houston said: "I'll just speak bluntly, our campaign is going very
well and he's concerned heading into the last week of the campaign."
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> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:52:40 -0300
> Subject: Re MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref:
> ES3077) I just called again
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> Subject: MLA Weekly Update and Decision Announcement (Case Ref: ES3077)
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
>
> Dear David Amos
>
> MLA Weekly Update
>
> Date Tuesday July 6th, 2021
>
> My Mission as MLA for Cumberland North
>
> Serve the people
> Build Unity & Trust
> Influence Legislation & public policy
> For the greater good.
> Educate and Build Capacity
> Promote the people and area,
> Build a world-class health care system
> And improve population health.
>
> I have some news to share to start the week.
>
> I don’t know when Iain Rankin is going to call the next election.
>
> But I do know this.
>
> When Iain Rankin calls the election, I will be running as an
> Independent candidate for re-election as MLA for Cumberland North.
>
> You, the good people of Cumberland North know me.
>
> You know I will always put your priorities first.
>
> I will always fight for you.
>
> No apologies.
>
> Running as an Independent outside of party politics isn’t easy.
>
> If the people of Cumberland North continue to stand by me, I will
> continue to fight for you.
>
> For better health care.
>
> For regional co-operation to keep our borders open.
>
> For getting rid of the Cobequid Pass tolls.
>
> For supporting local food and the farmers who make it happen.
>
> I’m the only candidate in Cumberland North who doesn’t
> have to answer to a party leader in Halifax.
>
> I’m not a career politician. I&
> nurse. I have owned and operated my own
> businesses. I have put people to work and met a payroll.
>
> Above all, I’m a fighter who doesn’t back down.
>
> With your support, let’s put the people of Cumberland North
> first.
>
> I learned at a young age to stand my ground and I am not about to
> change now.
>
>
> Last Week in Politics
>
> Last week my staff and I worked with constituents on many matters of
> importance such as lack of family physicians, housing, roads, Covid
> rules and restrictions, NS NB Border, addictions and mental health and
> more.
>
> I continue to work with Municipal partners on various projects
> throughout Cumberland North,
>
>
> This Week In Politics
>
> Local
> This week I will be meeting with constituents to continue to work on
> ongoing projects for family physician recruitment and addictions and
> mental illness recovery projects.
>
> National
> The Borders are opening between Canada and US this week for fully
> vaccinated persons.
> We also see the toll of the wild fires in British Colombia.
> Heartbreaking to see the devastation and deaths from the deadly
> fires.
>
>
> Pandemic Update
>
> Vaccine
>
> Vaccination for the Covid-19 virus continues to be the main tool we
> have to prevent illness and death. If you require assistance to book
> your Covid19 vaccine please call my office and my staff can provide
> you with some help. Our office phone number is 902-661-2288.
>
> NS has only 26.1 % of the population with 2nd doses of vaccine while
> NB has 39.6% of the population vaccinated with 2nd doses. NB also
> vaccinates persons with medical conditions that deems them high risk
> but our NS government refuses.
>
> Nova Scotia
>
> NS has 53 active cases of Covid19 as of Monday morning with 3 new
> cases being identified on Sunday. No one in ICU in the entire province
> and only 3 people in hospital.
>
> https://novascotia.ca/
>
>
> New Brunswick
>
> NB has 21 active cases of Covid-19 as of Monday morning with only 1
> new case identified on Sunday. NB has no one in ICU and 4 persons on
> hospital with Covid infections.
>
> https://experience.arcgis.com/
>
>
>
> Birthdays
>
> Monday Ashleigh Coffin and Sheila Rushton
> Tuesday Laura Wells
> Wednesday Mal MacDonald
> Thursday Kittee Baxter and Carl LeBlanc
> Friday Chuck MacInnis
> Saturday Krista Cormier and Adrian VanVulpen
>
> Obituaries
>
> Hermina "Mini" Porter
>
> https://www.
>
>
> Margaret Ann Myles
>
> https://www.arbormemorial.ca/
>
> Nova Scotia Starts Here ~ Cumberland
>
> Several months ago I started this campaign emphasizing the importance
> of Cumberland County. Nova Scotia does start in Cumberland. Cumberland
> is the Gateway for the Atlantic Cooridor and on average 50 million
> dollars worth of goods travel through our Gateway. We may only have 3%
> of the population of NS but we provide critical infrastructure for NS,
> the Maritimes, Canada and the entire Eastern Seaboard.
>
> Never underestimate your value as citizens of Cumberland. We are
> important and we will stand for our area of the province. It’s
> time for Cumberland to receive the respect we deserve and we will grow
> and become all that we are meant to be.
>
> Have a great week, take care of yourselves and take care of one
> another.
>
> Take care,
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin MBA, BScN
> Cumberland North MLA
>
> Live everyday to the fullest and love as much as humanly possible.
>
>
>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:15:59 -0400
>>>>>> Subject: Hey Ralph Goodale perhaps you and the RCMP should call the
>>>>>> Yankees Governor Charlie Baker, his lawyer Bob Ross, Rachael Rollins
>>>>>> and this cop Robert Ridge (857 259 9083) ASAP EH Mr Primme Minister
>>>>>> Trudeau the Younger and Donald Trump Jr?
>>>>>> To: pm@pm.gc.ca, Katie.Telford@pmo-cpm.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca, djtjr@trumporg.com,
>>>>>> Donald.J.Trump@donaldtrump.com
>>>>>> Frank.McKenna@td.com, barbara.massey@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Douglas.Johnson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>> washington.field@ic.fbi.gov, Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>> gov.press@state.ma.us, bob.ross@state.ma.us, jfurey@nbpower.com,
>>>>>> jfetzer@d.umn.edu, Newsroom@globeandmail.com, sfine@globeandmail.com,
>>>>>> .Poitras@cbc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, David.Akin@globalnews.ca,
>>>>>> Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, news@kingscorecord.com,
>>>>>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>>>>>> andre@jafaust.com>
>>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>>>> wharrison@nbpower.com, David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca,
>>>>>> Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> From: "Murray, Charles (Ombud)" <Charles.Murray@gnb.ca>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:16:15 +0000
>>>>>>> Subject: You wished to speak with me
>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have the advantage, sir, of having read many of your emails over
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> years.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As such, I do not think a phone conversation between us, and
>>>>>>> specifically one which you might mistakenly assume was in response
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> your threat of legal action against me, is likely to prove a
>>>>>>> productive use of either of our time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there is some specific matter about which you wish to communicate
>>>>>>> with me, feel free to email me with the full details and it will be
>>>>>>> given due consideration.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Charles Murray
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ombud NB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Acting Integrity Commissioner
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
>>>>>>>> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova
>>>>>>>> Scotia
>>>>>>>> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos,
>>>>>>>> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the
>>>>>>>> Province
>>>>>>>> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
>>>>>>>> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
>>>>>>>> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Department of Justice
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well
>>>>>>>>> Please
>>>>>>>>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>>>>>>>>> ilian.html
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I
>>>>>>>>>> must
>>>>>>>>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament
>>>>>>>>>> baseball
>>>>>>>>>> cards?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>> 6
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>>>>>>>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>>>>>>>>> United States Senate
>>>>>>>>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>>>>>>>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>>>>>>>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>>>>>>>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the
>>>>>>>>>> matters
>>>>>>>>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire
>>>>>>>>>> tap
>>>>>>>>>> tapes.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this
>>>>>>>>>> previously.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Very truly yours,
>>>>>>>>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>>>>>>>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>>>>>>>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>>>>>>>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>>>>>>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>>>>>>>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Good Day Sir
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and
>>>>>>>>> managed
>>>>>>>>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady
>>>>>>>>> who
>>>>>>>>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the
>>>>>>>>> Sgt
>>>>>>>>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>>>>>>>>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>>>>>>>>> suggested that you study closely.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> April 3rd, 2017
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The only hearing thus far
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> May 24th, 2017
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://archive.org/details/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Date: 20151223
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Plaintiff
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Defendant
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ORDER
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>>>>>>>>> December 14, 2015)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on
>>>>>>>>> November
>>>>>>>>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of
>>>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>>>> in its entirety.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my
>>>>>>>>> attention
>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>>>>>>>>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the
>>>>>>>>> Canadian
>>>>>>>>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen
>>>>>>>>> Quigg,
>>>>>>>>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that
>>>>>>>>> letter
>>>>>>>>> he stated:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including
>>>>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>>>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>>>>>>>>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a
>>>>>>>>> number
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be
>>>>>>>>> witnesses
>>>>>>>>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>>>>>>>>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>>>>>>>>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>>>>>>>>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau;
>>>>>>>>> former
>>>>>>>>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former
>>>>>>>>> Staff
>>>>>>>>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick
>>>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>>>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and,
>>>>>>>>> retired
>>>>>>>>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>>>>>>>>> Police.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>>>>>>>>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>>>>>>>>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I
>>>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>>>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias
>>>>>>>>> should
>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>>>>>>>>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et
>>>>>>>>> al,
>>>>>>>>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>>>>>>>>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party
>>>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>>>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the
>>>>>>>>> Administrator
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion.
>>>>>>>>> There
>>>>>>>>> is no order as to costs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> “B. Richard Bell”
>>>>>>>>> Judge
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one
>>>>>>>>> comment
>>>>>>>>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had
>>>>>>>>> sent
>>>>>>>>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the
>>>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>>>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>>>>>>>>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>>>>>>>>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> most
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>>>>>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that
>>>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>>>> dudes are way past too late
>>>>>>>>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me
>>>>>>>>> rejoindre
>>>>>>>>> à
>>>>>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un
>>>>>>>>> courriel
>>>>>>>>> à
>>>>>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>>>>>>>>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>>>>>>>>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Merci ,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more
>>>>>>>>> war
>>>>>>>>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times
>>>>>>>>> over
>>>>>>>>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> January 13, 2015
>>>>>>>>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> December 8, 2014
>>>>>>>>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>>>>>>>>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>>>>>>>>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer
>>>>>>>>> hide
>>>>>>>>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean
>>>>>>>>> Chretien
>>>>>>>>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second
>>>>>>>>> campaign
>>>>>>>>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or
>>>>>>>>> contrary
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>>>>>>>>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There
>>>>>>>>> were
>>>>>>>>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the
>>>>>>>>> dearth
>>>>>>>>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>>>>>>>>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last
>>>>>>>>> minute”
>>>>>>>>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its
>>>>>>>>> mind.
>>>>>>>>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>>>>>>>>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>>>>>>>>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>>>>>>>>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq.
>>>>>>>>> But
>>>>>>>>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister
>>>>>>>>> Chretien’s
>>>>>>>>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>>>>>>>>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>>>>>>>>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>>>>>>>>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>>>>>>>>> campaign of 2006.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that
>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>>>>>>>>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice,
>>>>>>>>> consent,
>>>>>>>>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and
>>>>>>>>> babbling
>>>>>>>>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by
>>>>>>>>> planners
>>>>>>>>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>>>>>>>>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to
>>>>>>>>> war.
>>>>>>>>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public
>>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do
>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>>>>>>>>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>>>>>>>>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>>>>>>>>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>>>>>>>>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>>>>>>>>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed
>>>>>>>>> state”
>>>>>>>>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and
>>>>>>>>> control,
>>>>>>>>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world.
>>>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>>>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital
>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is
>>>>>>>>> ethical.
>>>>>>>>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Subject:
>>>>>>>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>>>>>>>>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>>>>>>>>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> January 30, 2007
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Mr. David Amos
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December
>>>>>>>>> 29,
>>>>>>>>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner
>>>>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>>>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>>>>>>>>> Minister of Health
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> CM/cb
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>>>>>>>>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>>>>>>>>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>>>>>>>>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>>>>>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com,
>>>>>>>>> riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>>>>>>>>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>>>>>>>>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>>>>>>>>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>>>>>>>>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured
>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our
>>>>>>>>> position
>>>>>>>>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>>>>>>>>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>>>>>>>>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>>>>>>>>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>>>>>>>>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>>>>>>>>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>>>>>>>>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>>>>>>>>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had
>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future
>>>>>>>>> endeavors.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>>>>>>>>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>>>>>>>>> Traffic Services NCO
>>>>>>>>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>>>>>>>>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>>>>>>>>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>>>>>>>>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>>>>>>>>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>>>>>>>>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>>>>>>>>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>>>>>>>>> fax: 506-444-5224
>>>>>>>>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sunday, 19 November 2017
>>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And
>>>>>>>> Publishes
>>>>>>>> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter
>>>>>>>> Before
>>>>>>>> The Supreme Court
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Amos v. Canada
>>>>>>>> Court (s) Database
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>>>>>>>> Date
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2017-10-30
>>>>>>>> Neutral citation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>>> File numbers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A-48-16
>>>>>>>> Date: 20171030
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>>>>>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>>> CORAM:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>>>>>>> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
>>>>>>>> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
>>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> THE COURT
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Date: 20171030
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Docket: A-48-16
>>>>>>>> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
>>>>>>>> CORAM:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> BETWEEN:
>>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>>>>>>> Respondent on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>>> (and formally Appellant)
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>> Appellant on the cross-appeal
>>>>>>>> (and formerly Respondent)
>>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I. Introduction
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos)
>>>>>>>> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
>>>>>>>> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11
>>>>>>>> million
>>>>>>>> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and
>>>>>>>> Provincial
>>>>>>>> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
>>>>>>>> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public
>>>>>>>> Safety
>>>>>>>> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal
>>>>>>>> Canadian
>>>>>>>> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his
>>>>>>>> clan
>>>>>>>> (Claim at para. 96).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court
>>>>>>>> (the
>>>>>>>> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
>>>>>>>> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
>>>>>>>> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally
>>>>>>>> vexatious,
>>>>>>>> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment
>>>>>>>> (the
>>>>>>>> Prothontary’s Order).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
>>>>>>>> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
>>>>>>>> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of
>>>>>>>> Status
>>>>>>>> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19,
>>>>>>>> 2016.
>>>>>>>> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
>>>>>>>> cross-appeal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> II. Preliminary Matter
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
>>>>>>>> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on
>>>>>>>> March
>>>>>>>> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this
>>>>>>>> appeal.
>>>>>>>> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he
>>>>>>>> believed
>>>>>>>> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
>>>>>>>> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
>>>>>>>> several judges but did not name those judges.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
>>>>>>>> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because
>>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>>> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
>>>>>>>> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the
>>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>>> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based
>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C.,
>>>>>>>> 1985,
>>>>>>>> c. F-7:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
>>>>>>>> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
>>>>>>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> Appeal.
>>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
>>>>>>>> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs
>>>>>>>> que
>>>>>>>> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
>>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>>> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
>>>>>>>> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
>>>>>>>> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de
>>>>>>>> la
>>>>>>>> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
>>>>>>>> les
>>>>>>>> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the
>>>>>>>> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
>>>>>>>> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the
>>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>>> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> section.
>>>>>>>> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act
>>>>>>>> provide
>>>>>>>> that:
>>>>>>>> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>>> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
>>>>>>>> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
>>>>>>>> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and
>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour
>>>>>>>> d’appel
>>>>>>>> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
>>>>>>>> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est
>>>>>>>> maintenue
>>>>>>>> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
>>>>>>>> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
>>>>>>>> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
>>>>>>>> matière civile et pénale.
>>>>>>>> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>>> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
>>>>>>>> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
>>>>>>>> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada,
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
>>>>>>>> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
>>>>>>>> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
>>>>>>>> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle
>>>>>>>> est
>>>>>>>> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
>>>>>>>> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
>>>>>>>> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
>>>>>>>> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
>>>>>>>> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
>>>>>>>> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the
>>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>>> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would
>>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>>> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required
>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in
>>>>>>>> relation
>>>>>>>> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
>>>>>>>> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only
>>>>>>>> documents
>>>>>>>> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> appeal book.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
>>>>>>>> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
>>>>>>>> conflict in any matter related to him.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a
>>>>>>>> motion
>>>>>>>> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
>>>>>>>> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that
>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the
>>>>>>>> Federal
>>>>>>>> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court.
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
>>>>>>>> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
>>>>>>>> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
>>>>>>>> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
>>>>>>>> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
>>>>>>>> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
>>>>>>>> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
>>>>>>>> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
>>>>>>>> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
>>>>>>>> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
>>>>>>>> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
>>>>>>>> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
>>>>>>>> such judge had a conflict.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
>>>>>>>> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that
>>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>>> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a
>>>>>>>> partner
>>>>>>>> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
>>>>>>>> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which
>>>>>>>> Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that
>>>>>>>> he
>>>>>>>> was a member of such firm.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
>>>>>>>> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice
>>>>>>>> Webb,
>>>>>>>> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
>>>>>>>> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
>>>>>>>> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings
>>>>>>>> were
>>>>>>>> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the
>>>>>>>> Tax
>>>>>>>> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
>>>>>>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings
>>>>>>>> between
>>>>>>>> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
>>>>>>>> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice
>>>>>>>> Webb
>>>>>>>> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
>>>>>>>> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen
>>>>>>>> May
>>>>>>>> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer.
>>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>>> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of
>>>>>>>> e-mails
>>>>>>>> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
>>>>>>>> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
>>>>>>>> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
>>>>>>>> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
>>>>>>>> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
>>>>>>>> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
>>>>>>>> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
>>>>>>>> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice
>>>>>>>> Webb
>>>>>>>> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In
>>>>>>>> Wewaykum
>>>>>>>> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
>>>>>>>> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
>>>>>>>> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
>>>>>>>> apprehension of bias:
>>>>>>>> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
>>>>>>>> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
>>>>>>>> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
>>>>>>>> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias:
>>>>>>>> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
>>>>>>>> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
>>>>>>>> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the
>>>>>>>> words
>>>>>>>> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed
>>>>>>>> person,
>>>>>>>> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having
>>>>>>>> thought
>>>>>>>> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more
>>>>>>>> likely
>>>>>>>> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
>>>>>>>> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
>>>>>>>> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and
>>>>>>>> having
>>>>>>>> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’
>>>>>>>> allegations
>>>>>>>> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
>>>>>>>> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges
>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
>>>>>>>> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins
>>>>>>>> v.
>>>>>>>> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
>>>>>>>> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
>>>>>>>> (4th) 193).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
>>>>>>>> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the
>>>>>>>> Supreme
>>>>>>>> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
>>>>>>>> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
>>>>>>>> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
>>>>>>>> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The
>>>>>>>> Ontario
>>>>>>>> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
>>>>>>>> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
>>>>>>>> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
>>>>>>>> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
>>>>>>>> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no
>>>>>>>> involvement,
>>>>>>>> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
>>>>>>>> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
>>>>>>>> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a
>>>>>>>> trial
>>>>>>>> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v.
>>>>>>>> Bayfield
>>>>>>>> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
>>>>>>>> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a
>>>>>>>> judge
>>>>>>>> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
>>>>>>>> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
>>>>>>>> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
>>>>>>>> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of
>>>>>>>> disqualification
>>>>>>>> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
>>>>>>>> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
>>>>>>>> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka
>>>>>>>> J.
>>>>>>>> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
>>>>>>>> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
>>>>>>>> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
>>>>>>>> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
>>>>>>>> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial
>>>>>>>> judge.
>>>>>>>> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
>>>>>>>> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
>>>>>>>> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular
>>>>>>>> circumstances
>>>>>>>> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
>>>>>>>> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there
>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties
>>>>>>>> accept,
>>>>>>>> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
>>>>>>>> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
>>>>>>>> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must
>>>>>>>> inform
>>>>>>>> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of
>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
>>>>>>>> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the
>>>>>>>> decision-making,
>>>>>>>> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
>>>>>>>> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
>>>>>>>> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
>>>>>>>> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J.
>>>>>>>> had
>>>>>>>> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
>>>>>>>> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
>>>>>>>> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
>>>>>>>> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally
>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of
>>>>>>>> involvement
>>>>>>>> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had
>>>>>>>> carriage.
>>>>>>>> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
>>>>>>>> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he
>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
>>>>>>>> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would
>>>>>>>> throw
>>>>>>>> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and
>>>>>>>> favour
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six
>>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>>> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
>>>>>>>> events from over a decade ago.
>>>>>>>> (emphasis added)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
>>>>>>>> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
>>>>>>>> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
>>>>>>>> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
>>>>>>>> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
>>>>>>>> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
>>>>>>>> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
>>>>>>>> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos
>>>>>>>> had
>>>>>>>> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
>>>>>>>> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
>>>>>>>> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer
>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in
>>>>>>>> Justice
>>>>>>>> Webb hearing this appeal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
>>>>>>>> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
>>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no
>>>>>>>> involvement
>>>>>>>> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000]
>>>>>>>> 4
>>>>>>>> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
>>>>>>>> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
>>>>>>>> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
>>>>>>>> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
>>>>>>>> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving
>>>>>>>> Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
>>>>>>>> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true
>>>>>>>> copy
>>>>>>>> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this
>>>>>>>> CD.
>>>>>>>> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
>>>>>>>> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement
>>>>>>>> authorities
>>>>>>>> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are
>>>>>>>> willing
>>>>>>>> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an
>>>>>>>> “American
>>>>>>>> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
>>>>>>>> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
>>>>>>>> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
>>>>>>>> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for
>>>>>>>> him
>>>>>>>> to recuse himself.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past
>>>>>>>> professional
>>>>>>>> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in
>>>>>>>> deciding
>>>>>>>> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
>>>>>>>> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he
>>>>>>>> alleges
>>>>>>>> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he
>>>>>>>> wrote
>>>>>>>> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
>>>>>>>> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
>>>>>>>> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and
>>>>>>>> angry,
>>>>>>>> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me
>>>>>>>> suing
>>>>>>>> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the
>>>>>>>> letter
>>>>>>>> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
>>>>>>>> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question
>>>>>>>> does
>>>>>>>> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> III. Issue
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
>>>>>>>> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the
>>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>>> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
>>>>>>>> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
>>>>>>>> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> IV. Analysis
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A. Standard of Review
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
>>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and
>>>>>>>> decisions
>>>>>>>> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
>>>>>>>> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA
>>>>>>>> 215,
>>>>>>>> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
>>>>>>>> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
>>>>>>>> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R.
>>>>>>>> 235
>>>>>>>> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
>>>>>>>> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
>>>>>>>> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
>>>>>>>> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
>>>>>>>> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere
>>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>>> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary
>>>>>>>> order
>>>>>>>> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
>>>>>>>> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
>>>>>>>> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This
>>>>>>>> Court
>>>>>>>> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the
>>>>>>>> Judge
>>>>>>>> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
>>>>>>>> interfere.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
>>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
>>>>>>>> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
>>>>>>>> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but
>>>>>>>> four
>>>>>>>> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in
>>>>>>>> 2006
>>>>>>>> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
>>>>>>>> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the
>>>>>>>> Province
>>>>>>>> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident
>>>>>>>> alleged
>>>>>>>> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
>>>>>>>> (…)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
>>>>>>>> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
>>>>>>>> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
>>>>>>>> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to
>>>>>>>> advance.
>>>>>>>> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
>>>>>>>> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
>>>>>>>> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
>>>>>>>> [footnotes omitted].
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the
>>>>>>>> Claim
>>>>>>>> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge
>>>>>>>> noted
>>>>>>>> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
>>>>>>>> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the
>>>>>>>> actors
>>>>>>>> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
>>>>>>>> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In
>>>>>>>> considering
>>>>>>>> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
>>>>>>>> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
>>>>>>>> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
>>>>>>>> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
>>>>>>>> para. 27).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
>>>>>>>> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
>>>>>>>> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v.
>>>>>>>> Canada,
>>>>>>>> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003
>>>>>>>> SCC
>>>>>>>> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
>>>>>>>> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
>>>>>>>> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
>>>>>>>> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
>>>>>>>> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff;
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the
>>>>>>>> public
>>>>>>>> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
>>>>>>>> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
>>>>>>>> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed
>>>>>>>> sufficient
>>>>>>>> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
>>>>>>>> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
>>>>>>>> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
>>>>>>>> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of
>>>>>>>> pleadings
>>>>>>>> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
>>>>>>>> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
>>>>>>>> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
>>>>>>>> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did
>>>>>>>> steal”.
>>>>>>>> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
>>>>>>>> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making
>>>>>>>> bald,
>>>>>>>> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an
>>>>>>>> abuse
>>>>>>>> of process…
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
>>>>>>>> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
>>>>>>>> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
>>>>>>>> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
>>>>>>>> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
>>>>>>>> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
>>>>>>>> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
>>>>>>>> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
>>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
>>>>>>>> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
>>>>>>>> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which
>>>>>>>> addresses
>>>>>>>> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
>>>>>>>> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
>>>>>>>> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
>>>>>>>> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred
>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious
>>>>>>>> reasons,
>>>>>>>> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
>>>>>>>> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
>>>>>>>> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As
>>>>>>>> such,
>>>>>>>> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the
>>>>>>>> RCMP
>>>>>>>> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> supporting a cause of action.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
>>>>>>>> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
>>>>>>>> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
>>>>>>>> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
>>>>>>>> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further,
>>>>>>>> we
>>>>>>>> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
>>>>>>>> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
>>>>>>>> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> V. Conclusion
>>>>>>>> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the
>>>>>>>> Crown’s
>>>>>>>> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
>>>>>>>> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order,
>>>>>>>> dated
>>>>>>>> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
>>>>>>>> without leave to amend.
>>>>>>>> "Wyman W. Webb"
>>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>>> "David G. Near"
>>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>>> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
>>>>>>>> J.A.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
>>>>>>>> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT
>>>>>>>> DATED
>>>>>>>> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
>>>>>>>> DOCKET:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A-48-16
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> PLACE OF HEARING:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fredericton,
>>>>>>>> New Brunswick
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DATE OF HEARING:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> May 24, 2017
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WEBB J.A.
>>>>>>>> NEAR J.A.
>>>>>>>> GLEASON J.A.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DATED:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> October 30, 2017
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> APPEARANCES:
>>>>>>>> David Raymond Amos
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
>>>>>>>> (on his own behalf)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jan Jensen
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
>>>>>>>> Nathalie G. Drouin
>>>>>>>> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>> From: "David Amos" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>>>> Subject: Now everybody and his dog knows TJ Burke and his cop buddies
>>>>> allegations against me are false and you had the proof all along EH
>>>>> Chucky?
>>>>> To: oldmaison@yahoo.com, nbombud@gnb.ca, dan.bussieres@gnb.ca,
>>>>> jacques_poitras@cbc.ca, news@dailygleaner.com,
>>>>> kcarmichael@bloomberg.net, advocacycollective@yahoo.com,
>>>>> Easter.W@parl.gc.ca, Comartin.J@parl.gc.ca, cityadmin@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> info@gg.ca, bmosher@mosherchedore.ca, rchedore@mosherchedore.ca,
>>>>> police@fredericton.ca, chebert@thestar.ca, Stoffer.P@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>> Stronach.B@parl.gc.ca, Matthews.B@parl.gc.ca, alltrue@nl.rogers.com,
>>>>> Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Layton.J@parl.gc.ca, Dryden.K@parl.gc.ca,
>>>>> Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
>>>>> CC: dgleg@nb.aibn.com, brad.woodside@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> whalen@fredericton.ca, david.kelly@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> cathy.maclaggan@fredericton.ca
>>>>> tom.jellinek@fredericton.ca, scott.mcconaghy@fredericton.ca
>>>>> marilyn.kerton@fredericton.ca, walter.brown@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> norah.davidson@fredericton.ca, mike.obrien@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> bruce.grandy@fredericton.ca, dan.keenan@fredericton.ca,
>>>>> jeff.mockler@gnb.ca, mrichard@lawsociety-barreau.
>>>>> cynthia.merlini@dfait-maeci.
>>>>> scotta@parl.gc.ca, michael.bray@gnb.ca, jack.e.mackay@gnb.ca
>>>>> http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> http://maritimes.indymedia.
>>>>>
>>>>> Methinks your liberal pals just made a major faux pas N'est Pas?
>>>>> Scroll down Frenchie and go down?.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Threat against Burke taken seriously
>>>>>
>>>>> By STEPHEN LLEWELLYN
>>>>> dgleg@nb.aibn.com
>>>>> Published Thursday May 24th, 2007
>>>>> Appeared on page A1
>>>>> An RCMP security detail has been guarding Justice Minister and
>>>>> Attorney General T.J. Burke because of threats made against him
>>>>> recently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke, the Liberal MLA for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaaksis, wouldn't
>>>>> explain the nature of the threats.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I have had a particular individual or individuals who have made
>>>>> specific overtures about causing harm towards me," he told reporters
>>>>> Wednesday.
>>>>>
>>>>> "The RCMP has provided security to me recently by accompanying me to a
>>>>> couple of public functions where the individual is known to reside or
>>>>> have family members in the area," said Burke. "It is nice to have some
>>>>> added protection and that added comfort."
>>>>>
>>>>> The RCMP provides protection to the premier and MLAs with its VIP
>>>>> security
>>>>> unit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke didn't say when the threat was made but it's believed to have
>>>>> been in recent weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>> "When a threat is posed to you and it is a credible threat, you have
>>>>> to be cautious about where you go and who you are around," he said.
>>>>> "But again, I am more concerned about my family as opposed to my own
>>>>> personal safety."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said he doesn't feel any differently and he has not changed his
>>>>> pattern of activity.
>>>>>
>>>>> "It doesn't bother me one bit," he said. "It makes my wife feel awful
>>>>> nervous."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke served in an elite American military unit before becoming a
>>>>> lawyer and going into politics in New Brunswick.
>>>>>
>>>>> "(I) have taken my own precautions and what I have to do to ensure my
>>>>> family's safety," he said. "I am a very cautious person in general due
>>>>> to my background and training.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I am comfortable with defending myself or my family if it ever had to
>>>>> happen."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said it is not uncommon for politicians to have security
>>>>> concerns.
>>>>>
>>>>> "We do live unfortunately in an age and in a society now where threats
>>>>> have to be taken pretty seriously," he said.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the terrorism attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001,
>>>>> security in New Brunswick has been
>>>>> beefed up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Metal detectors were recently installed in the legislature and all
>>>>> visitors are screened.
>>>>>
>>>>> The position of attorney general is often referred to as the
>>>>> province's "top cop."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said sometimes people do not differentiate between his role as
>>>>> the manager of the justice system and the individual who actually
>>>>> prosecutes them.
>>>>>
>>>>> "With the job sometimes comes threats," he said. "I have had numerous
>>>>> threats since Day 1 in office."
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke said he hopes his First Nations heritage has nothing to do with
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I think it is more of an issue where people get fixated on a matter
>>>>> and they believe you are personally responsible for assigning them
>>>>> their punishment or their sanction," he said.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the threat from someone who was recently incarcerated?
>>>>>
>>>>> "I probably shouldn't answer that," he replied.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reporters asked when the threat would be over.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I don't think a threat ever passes once it has been made," said
>>>>> Burke. "You have to consider the credibility of the source."
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce Fitch, former justice minister in the Conservative government,
>>>>> said "every now and again there would be e-mails that were not
>>>>> complimentary."
>>>>>
>>>>> "I did have a meeting with the RCMP who are in charge of the security
>>>>> of the MLAs and ministers," said Fitch.
>>>>>
>>>>> "They look at each and every situation."
>>>>>
>>>>> Fitch said he never had bodyguards assigned to him although former
>>>>> premier Bernard Lord and former health minister Elvy Robichaud did
>>>>> have extra security staff assigned on occasion.
>>>>>
>>>>> He said if any MLA felt threatened, he or she would discuss it with
>>>>> the
>>>>> RCMP.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> Small World EH Chucky Leblanc?
>>>>>
>>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>>> To: "'motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com'" motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com,
>>>>> "Lafleur, Lou" lou.lafleur@fredericton.ca
>>>>> Subject: Fredericton Police Force
>>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:21:13 -0300
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Mr. Amos
>>>>>
>>>>> My Name is Lou LaFleur and I am a Detective with the Fredericton
>>>>> Police Major Crime Unit. I would like to talk to you regarding files
>>>>> that I am investigating and that you are alleged to have involvement
>>>>> in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please call me at your earliest convenience and leave a message and a
>>>>> phone number on my secure and confidential line if I am not in my
>>>>> office.
>>>>>
>>>>> yours truly,
>>>>> Cpl. Lou LaFleur
>>>>> Fredericton Police Force
>>>>> 311 Queen St.
>>>>> Fredericton, NB
>>>>> 506-460-2332
>>>>> ______________________________
>>>>> This electronic mail, including any attachments, is confidential and
>>>>> is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may be privileged.
>>>>> Any unauthorized distribution, copying, disclosure or review is
>>>>> prohibited. Neither communication over the Internet nor disclosure to
>>>>> anyone other than the intended recipient constitutes waiver of
>>>>> privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately
>>>>> notify the sender and then delete this communication and any
>>>>> attachments from your computer system and records without saving or
>>>>> forwarding it. Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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