Posted on 11/22/2021 7:19:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The families of most of those killed and wounded in the 2018 Florida high school massacre announced Monday have reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the federal government over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.
Attorneys for 16 of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and some of those wounded said they have reached a monetary settlement with the government over the FBI’s failure to investigate a tip it received about a month before the massacre. The 17th family chose not to sue.
The attorneys said the settlement’s details are confidential, but a person familiar with the deal said the government will pay the families $127.5 million overall. The person requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the amount.
About five weeks before the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying a former Stoneman Douglas student, Nikolas Cruz, had bought guns and planned to “slip into a school and start shooting the place up.”
“I know he’s going to explode,” the caller told the FBI.
But that information was never forwarded to the FBI’s South Florida office and Cruz was never contacted. He had been expelled from the school a year earlier and had a long history of emotional and behavioral problems.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty last month to 17 counts of first-degree murder. He will receive either a death sentence or life in prison after a penalty trial that is scheduled to start in January.
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Government doesn’t do it’s job so the taxpayers pay again.
The FIB are the terrorists.
What good would it have done them if they stopped him? Now that he’s killed, they get more money, laws and powers.
How can the FBI advance its civilian disarmament objectives if it stops known school shooters when they are specifically identified to them? They didn’t drop the ball, this is what they were chartered to do (when they’re not spearheading plots to kidnap politicians or to storm the Capitol). Stealing a billion dollars of civil war gold is just icing.
Great! Now also do San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas and Boston.
Does anyone think the FBI cares? Does Fed.gov care? They’ll just issue another $Trillion in debt.
Exactly.
All settlement money belongs to taxpayers.
Us Poor, Suffering Taxpayers are once again saddled with paying for incompetent FIBBIES!
How many FIBBIES have been fired for incompetence?
But that information was never forwarded to the FBI’s South Florida office and Cruz was never contacted.
Does it come out of Epps’s pension? Hell no!
Where is Epps c.v.?
How many FIBBIES have been fired for incompetence?You don't mean the rank and file honest agents that never do early morning raids on mostly innocent, patriotic citizens do you?
The "rank and file" agents Hannity is always propping up as the honest ones? You know, the whistle blower agents trying to do the right thing...OH WAIT!
One logistical bone in the craw about this. At what point do we arrest people because we reasonbly surmise they are going to commit a crime? As much as I despise the FBI, they could easily be a product of our own stupididy and laziness.
Every dime of this obscenity of a settlement needs to come directly from the FBI budget.
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The cops were dispatched to his house 39 times.
That should have put him on a list somewhere.
You are correct on today’s rank and file FBI. Useless, woke and anti-Trump and anti-rightwing.
At this point it would be cheaper to disband the FBI, and let Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau take over the job.
They did nothing because they WANTED it to happen under President Trump’s watch.
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