Lawyer Hired After Sept. 11 Tale Unravels
A woman whose tales of Sept. 11 survival are unraveling has hired a lawyer to represent her.
“With regard to the veracity of my client’s story, neither my client, nor I, have any comment,” the lawyer, Stephanie Furgang Adwar, told the New York Times.
Tania Head had said she was working at Merrill Lynch & Company at the World Trade Center’s south tower when the plane crashed into the building. As she crawled to safety, she said, she met a dying man who asked her to give his wedding ring to his wife. She survived with the help of another man who later died, but her fiancé, Dave, did not make it, she said.
She told her story to reporters and visitors to ground zero and served as president of World Trade Center Survivors’ Network.
But the Times reports that Dave’s family and friends never heard of Head, and Merrill Lynch has no record of her employment. Head says she had degrees from Harvard and Stanford, but the universities could not verify she was a student.
There is no suggestion that Head profited from her story.
