David Gergel, a former US Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune, was poisoned to death by toxic water at the North Carolina military base , according to his son, who hopes the Trump administration will provide sick and dying veterans “ignored for years” a shot at “long overdue justice.”

The Camp Lejeune Justice Act , passed by Congress and signed into law in 2022, was expected to provide the justice long sought by veterans like Gergel, of Elmira, NY, who died in 2012 of bladder cancer. The legislation allows those affected decades ago by the base’s contaminated water to sue the federal government for damages.

The Biden administration, however, fiercely litigated claims and was slow to pay out , settling only a fraction of the 400,000 or so cases brought by victims, which have moved at

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