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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Thomas Maguire, Volunteer World Trade Center Rescue Worker
2:28:09
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Thomas Maguire, a volunteer World Trade Center rescue worker, shared his personal experiences with 9/11-related health issues and the challenges in receiving compensation. He emphasized the importance of scientific data in establishing causal relationships between 9/11 exposures and health problems.
- Maguire faced difficulties in getting compensation for orthopedic injuries due to delayed application and inability to establish causal relationships.
- He described significant personal and financial losses, including multiple health issues such as cancer and cardiac problems.
- Maguire stressed the need for better scientific evidence to link 9/11 exposures to health conditions, particularly cardiac problems.
Thomas Maguire
2:28:09
That was an incredible presentation, the last one, and she covered so many things I was going to say.
2:28:15
I have to ad lib this.
2:28:16
My name is Thomas Maguire, and I'm a volunteer World Trade Center rescue worker.
2:28:22
I waited too long to apply for compensation, and as a result, my orthopedic injuries, like the dislocation of both kneecaps, were categorically excluded.
2:28:34
I then faced a hearing where I was told that I was unable to establish the causal relationship between my injuries and 911.
2:28:47
You have to understand that every application for benefits must withstand the legal challenge of the causal relationship of these injuries.
2:28:59
Withholding the scientific data is flying in the face of being able to establish those causal relationships.
2:29:10
Now I was doing the IPO for my company, at the time of 9/11.
2:29:18
I had a beach house in Southampton.
2:29:21
I had a nice house in in Astoria.
2:29:25
I lost all of that while I was sequestered, and there were no compensations paid.
2:29:35
By the time, COVID came around, I had already had a cancer operation that split my chest open twice.
2:29:45
I've had 6 cardiac, procedures, and the scientists and doctors at Mount Sinai have been unable to establish the causal relationship between cardiac problems and 911 and the poisons that were in there.
2:30:03
Now as a scientist, as an engineer, I knew a lot of what was there, and we were there because we still Time