Families Of Parkland Shooting Victims To Get Millions For FBI Inaction
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The DOJ announced a $127.5 million settlement to resolve 40 cases connected to the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Hight School.
Federal officials confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed or wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.
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Attorneys for 16 of the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and some of those wounded previously announced in November that they had reached a monetary settlement with the government over the FBI's failure to investigate a tip it received about a month before the massacre. The 17th family chose not to sue.
