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Feds pay $128M to families after FBI bungled tips about Parkland school shooter
New York Post ^ | March 16, 2022 8:52pm | Jesse O’Neill

Posted on 03/16/2022 7:02:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The federal government will pay a $127.5 million settlement over the Parkland, Fla. school massacre — after it admitted the FBI didn’t follow up on two tips that could have prevented the massacre.

The legal deal announced Wednesday settles 40 lawsuits tied to the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which remains the largest high school shooting in US history.

The Department of Justice did not admit fault in the shootings, and the settlement “resolved all the cases” filed against the government by family members of the 16 shooting victims and all the survivors of the attack, a news release said.

Nikolas Cruz, 23, had pleaded guilty to killing 17 students and staff members at the school, and trying to kill 17 others when he opened fired on his former classmates and teachers with a semi-automatic weapon on Valentine’s Day in 2018.

The FBI mishandled two tips about the gunman in the months before the shooting, officials conceded to Congress a month after the shooting.

In one instance, a YouTuber had told the bureau that Cruz had posted “Im going to be a professional school shooter” on the comment section of one of his videos.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cointelpro; fbi; nikolascruz; parkland
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1 posted on 03/16/2022 7:02:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oops, open the checkbook.


2 posted on 03/16/2022 7:04:23 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Taxpayers pay for bureaucratic incompetence. Nothing new.


3 posted on 03/16/2022 7:06:24 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One more brilliant effort on the FBI’s Hall of Shame bulletin board.


4 posted on 03/16/2022 7:06:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many years now. It’s almost forgotten. The way it works.


5 posted on 03/16/2022 7:09:11 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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How about the Las Vegas shooting and the mass murder by squishing and burning to death kids at Waco....


6 posted on 03/16/2022 7:10:35 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It sounds like @ssho Cruz decided to have his own little Feb 14 “insurrection” and the Feds missed it. In all fairness, the Feddies were busy trying to bring down President Trump at that time.


7 posted on 03/16/2022 7:11:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"..bungled tips.."

LOL, yeah right. They ALLOWED it to happen for some more of that 'gun grabbin narrative' chit.

8 posted on 03/16/2022 7:11:36 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my b"ack for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Whoaaaaa now....they haven’t found ALL the survivors of the attack yet...💸💸💸💸💸💰💵💵💵💰💰


9 posted on 03/16/2022 7:11:59 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

None of the boobs at the FBI get fired over this gross incompetence and the taxpayers are on the hook for the penalty. There is zero incentive to cleanup the FBI as a result.


10 posted on 03/16/2022 7:22:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why isn’t traitor James Comey personally responsible?


11 posted on 03/16/2022 7:25:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (She's retarted, Jim.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

but but but but...Ukraine!!!


12 posted on 03/16/2022 7:26:50 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Way overboard just for sympathy.


13 posted on 03/16/2022 7:28:48 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: glimmerman70

Haven’t heard any squeals out of David Hogg...since COVID.


14 posted on 03/16/2022 7:32:57 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The FBI was too busy hunting "white supremacists".

15 posted on 03/16/2022 7:34:07 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought the police didn’t have any liability for failing to prevent crimes. Do the Feds?


16 posted on 03/16/2022 7:36:44 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: lightman
#14: "Haven’t heard any squeals out of David Hogg...since COVID."

David has been busy posing for pictures:


17 posted on 03/16/2022 7:37:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: one guy in new jersey

I’m a survivor!
I was barely out of range by about 2,000 miles.


18 posted on 03/16/2022 7:42:35 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: gundog; Flick Lives
Charging the taxpayers for government stooges' incompetence or criminality has to stop. These costs need to be borne by the individuals as well as their peers and superiors.

Yes, include their peers, just like a company. Because until all of them start feeling it in their wallet and depleted pensions, they'll never behave with the best interest of others in mind.

19 posted on 03/16/2022 7:42:45 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Start with anyone that has or had anything to do with “restorative justice.”


20 posted on 03/16/2022 7:45:17 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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