As per the latest reports, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said that it had settled the 40 common cases that emerged following the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, for $127.5 million.
Survivors Sued the US Govt
“The settlement doesn’t add up to a confirmation of shortcoming by the US,” DOJ said in a statement.
“The meetings have been in case since late 2018, when the overcomers of the shooting, and the groups of 16 individuals killed, sued the public authority for harms,” it added.
The groups of 16 casualties, as well as a few survivors, sued the US government subsequent to discovering that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had gotten a tip about the shooter five weeks before the shooting.
On February 14, 2018, equipped with a rifle, Nikolas Cruz strolled into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and started shooting with his quick firing weapon, killing 17 and harming 17 others.
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This was the deadliest secondary school shooting in US history.
In October 2021, Cruz, a previous understudy who had been removed from the school in 2017 for reported upsetting and fierce way of behaving, confessed to 17 counts of planned first-degree murder and 17 counts of endeavored first-degree murder.
The case was dealt with by the DOJ’s Civil Division and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
US To Send Multilateral Task Force Against Russia Oligarchs
Meanwhile, the US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with partners in Europe and Asia today to officially send off a multilateral task force that tries to make a move against the resources of Russian oligarchs.
The task force, which will draw upon the services of equity, home or money in part purview, will attempt to “gather and offer data to make substantial moves, including sanctions, resource freezing, common and criminal resource seizure, and criminal arraignment,” the Justice Department said in a delivery Wednesday.
