(OWCP director), Elliott and Howard claim they advise the USHHS Secretary, the US President, and the President’s Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker’s Health. The US President and his USHHS cabinet member are suppose to be overseeing acts of wrongdoing such as this. How many claimants would understand that they are risking the forfeiture of their legal rights by signing any departments’ “closure waiver(s)” before consulting with an attorney? When a “closure waiver” is signed by a claimant, legally the transaction may be viewed as a “settlement agreement” — a legal and binding contract. Recently, it seems that the USDOL was charged to meet a compensation quota. It appears that the USDOL decisively invoked a “scam” when official letters are issued to adult children notifying them of the approval of their survivor benefits. After a brief period of time elapses, the USDOL employees issue another letter redacting the compensation award. The survivors are again notified that they were not 18 years old or still in college to age 23 when their worker father/mother died from their confirmed toxic exposure wounds. But, the coerced survivor victims agreed to sign the “closure waiver” that they believed was the only way the department employees would permit them to receive the compensation award.
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE LINK
TO THE ASBESTOS SCANDAL ASPECTS
EXHIBIT 6, EXHIBIT 7, and EXHIBIT 8 represent examples of the secrecy and cover-up aspects. “Pre-packaged” bankruptcies, or “pre-packs,” are the latest and hottest thing in the world of litigation relative to asbestos-related bodily injury claims.
Obviously, by the time the EEOICPA provisions were overwhelmingly approved by the US members of Congress, they feared that tens of thousands of nuclear industry claimants would likely consider filing an asbestos related lawsuit. So far, the asbestos litigation costs are so extraordinary that the Federal bankruptcy courts adopted radical changes to the laws. A “Pre-packaging” deal allows the corporations to file a special Chapter 11 which doesn’t harm their assets so they can continue to receive government contracts and huge profits. Preferred government IT market contractor Halliburton is one of the contractors who assumed liability, but filed for the special Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the members of Congress, “trust funds” are established in order to pay the past, present, and future litigants damage awards to year 2008 and beyond. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report was due by August 2005. REMINDER: See EXHIBIT 3-ITEM 1 OF 2. Since May 5, 2005, the members of Congress requested their GAO oversight agency to access the damage to victims regarding the “Black Lung Act,” the “EEOICPA”, and the RECA. See EXHIBIT 3-ITEM 2 OF 2 — Initial response letter from Robert E. Robertson, Director Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues dated June 20, 2005, to
