OneOrlando Fund requests that judge dismiss lawsuit
being cut by shattered glass and falling as she ran away, which, according to the fund guidelines, could qualify her for up to $35,000 in compensation. She works at the same law firm that filed the complaint.
Amador’s attorney, Paul Zeniewicz, wrote in the complaint that an audit must be done prior to disbursements to ensure all money is being properly appropriated. He also questioned the credibility of the main fund administrator, Kenneth Feinberg.
Feinberg is a national leader on victim compensation in mass tragedies, having handled the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund and One Fund Boston.
City attorneys asked OrangeOsceola Circuit Judge John E. Jordan to remove “impertinent and scandalous allegations” that besmirch Feinberg from the court filing.
The judge set a hearing for Oct. 6.
In response to a lawsuit brought by a Pulse survivor, the OneOrlando Fund asked a judge to dismiss the request for an audit of $29.5 million raised for victim compensation before it is distributed.
“This Petition is devoid of a single law, rule, regulation, contractual obligation, or any common-law duty from which her temporary injunction could stem or that would subject the Respondents to liability of any kind,” Orlando city attorneys wrote in a motion filed Tuesday in Orange County Circuit Court.
The legal back-and-forth comes as the OneOrlando Fund begins handing out payments to victims and family members of the 49 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The fund pledged to do an audit after all the money is disbursed, which it says is standard.
Jillian Amador, who filed the lawsuit, was at Pulse on June 12 with friends but not shot. She said she went to the hospital after