Edgar Galvis, a 51-year-old man from Queens, New York, was one of the many people who cleaned up the debris in office buildings following the 9/11 attacks that brought down the World Trade Center.

Originally from Bogota, Columbia, he came to the the United States in  February 2001 and after the attack was hired by contractors to clean the dust and rubble from the Merrill Lynch office. For $800 a week he would have to work 16 hour days with only a jumpsuit and paper mask for protection.

In the years that followed he became stricken with throat cancer and as a result is jobless, in debt to the tune of $30,000 and lives with his fiancee and her two children. In 2005 he was handed a law firm’s business card and told that they could help him get compensated for his health problems.

The firm’s representative told him in a followup meeting that he stood to get 60 percent of whatever the lawyers managed to negotiate as a settlement.

Then in April 2010 he was told that he had gotten a $10,000 offer which he would be smart to take because if they went to court and they lost Galvis could end up owing over $100,000 in costs. Needless to say Galvis took the settlement and that is when insult was added to injury.

His award had been $10,005, but his lawyers at the firm Worby, Groner, Edelman & Napoli Bern lopped off $2,579 for unitemized legal expenses.

Then they took a 33.3 percent fee of $2,124.

They also subtracted $352, a fee to the lawyer who referred him.

The remaining $4,950 was withheld for unspecified “liens,” the letter says. Galvis thinks this was repayment of workers’ compensation for aid.

“I have hit rock bottom,” said Galvis, who is jobless and $30,000 in debt. “I was expecting a check, and you can imagine how I felt when I opened it. I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was a joke.”

via New York Post

Unfortunately it wasn’t a joke. Not only had the law firm mislead him they now took the last of Galvis’ dignity without even blinking an eye.

Isn’t it wonderful how we have treated people who put their lives on the line following the attack as they gave their heart and soul to a city and a country in order to build it back up.

9/11 WTC worker stricken with cancer gets a settlement of $0 thanks to his lawyers is a post from: The Inquisitr

Okay, chalk this up as the looniest of looney tune lawsuits of all time but according to the filing obtained by Radar Online Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks is claiming that P Diddy, along with his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter and Rodney King; famous for getting beat up by the LAPD, is responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Center.

It is because of this that P Diddy and the others first knocked down the WTC and then came and knocked her; and her children down – one of which is a result of her and P Diddy knocking boots together 24 years ago.

From RadarOnline we get some more of this stupidity:

She alleges that she has been subjected to abuse from 2001 – 2010 and that: “[Diddy] went through Kim Porter and Rodney King and knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down. Set me up to be on disability and disabled my baby. he put my baby in a wheelchair.”

Valerie then goes on to say in her statement that is riddled with spelling and punctuation errors: “He date raped me 24 years ago and knocked me down him and Kim Porter and Wallace Wright, then Sean Combs and Kim and Wallace Wright came back 18 years later and raped and sexually abused my children and knocked my children down and crushed me and my children daily.

Ms. Turks is seeking $900 Billion in child support and the $100 Billion dollars for loss of income.

Woman sues P Diddy for $100 Billion, claims he knocked her up and knocked down World Trade Center is a post from: The Inquisitr

This gives a whole new meaning to having a problem with crabs. Talk about wacky Australian wildlife. Red Christmas Crabs take over a town.

More weird Australian wildlife: Crabs take over a town is a post from: The Inquisitr