The Port Authority: Paying the Price for Terrorism
Show #1014

Although the memory may have faded in the wake of 9/11, terrorists first attacked the World Trade Center back in 1993. Convicted 10 years ago in the criminal case, they remain in federal prison. But now a civil jury in New York has issued a new and controversial verdict on who was really to blame – finding the Port Authority had been negligent in its security and, so, was twice as responsible as the terrorists. The result could be nearly $2 billion in damages to be paid by the bi-state agency. Through archival footage from the ’93 bombing and its aftermath, Sandy King sets the stage in the opening tape piece, featuring contrasting reactions from Port Authority Chair Anthony Coscia and Rutgers Law Prof.essor Carlos Gonzales.

Raymond Brown’s guests in the studio: Andrew McCarthy, the federal prosecutor who tried the criminal case; Rutgers-Camden Law Prof. Jay Feinman, and Blair Fensterstock, lead attorney in the plaintiffs’ case.