During a recent guest host spot on The Sean Hannity Show, Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer and Vice President Eric Eggers called out President Biden and his DOJ for lies and misdirection regarding soldiers that were poisoned at Camp Lejeune military base.
“During the debate, Joe Biden touted that he passed the PACT Act — that was going to let veterans be reimbursed from the government because the government lied to them when they were at Camp Lejeune and said the water was fine to drink,” Schweizer said. “It was actually poisonous, and a lot of people that served our country and their families suffered immensely; they got cancer they got all kinds of illnesses.”
“And this PACT Act allowed, for the first time, Americans to file claims against the federal government. Biden has touted this repeatedly as a great victory for veterans. Well, we looked into this at the Government Accountability Institute. Guess what? The big winners are not the veterans who suffered — they actually got victimized a second time,” Schweizer continued. “This act actually stripped from the legislation any caps on legal fees for trial attorneys. Originally, the bill was going to say you can only get 25% that’s all you could charge for legal fees [and] that was stripped out by Nancy Pelosi in the House [and] some Republicans in the Senate got in on it, as well.”
“Now, you have Joe Biden signing the bill and guess what our Department of Justice with Merck Garland has done? Nothing to deal with this issue. It’s an absolute tragedy and another lie by Joe Biden.”
In a recent piece for The American Spectator, Eggers argues that the biggest winners from the PACT Act may be the lawyers making huge paydays of Camp Lejeune victims.
From The American Spectator:
In 2022, a provision was added to the “Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act” (PACT Act). It created a fund to compensate up to 500,000 former Marines and family members who may have been exposed to contaminated water while stationed at Camp Lejeune from the 1950s through the 1980s. Initial estimates put the cost to taxpayers at 6 billion, but the fund has no limit on payouts, and some projections are in the 9-figure range. The new law held the promise of justice for Lejeune victims — and also the promise of a boon for the lawyers who signed them up.
What has since been referred to as a “Wild West” of legal advertisement was unleashed: $145 million has been spent by law firms and their touts — known in the profession as “lead generators” — since 2022. That’s more than double what was spent on any mass tort advertising campaign before.
This new gold rush didn’t happen by accident. A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) reveals the people behind the coordinated plan to use Camp Lejeune victims to build what amounts to a new business model for personal injury attorneys. The “Wild West” is really the beginning of an entirely new taxpayer-funded liability landscape, the report shows.
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