— 🇻🇪/🇺🇸/✡️ NEW: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s trial will be presided over by Jewish Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was also assigned to oversee almost all 9/11 related civil lawsuits, including one in which he urged the families of 96 victims who questioned the failures in airline and airport security to take settlement money instead of taking the case to a public trial

According to the New York Times, Judge Hellerstein acknowledged that this resulted in a ‘loss of information’ to the public. Going to trial would have brought a trove of internal documents and depositions to public light before a jury.

Instead, during meetings held in his private robing chamber in the presence of his court-appointed mediator, Jewish lawyer Sheila Birnbaum, he encouraged the victims’ families to apply to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

One of the victims’ families stated that Hellerstein ‘gutted the case so that the truth about what led to the events of 9/11 would never be told at trial.‘

@Middle_East_Spectator