McCarthy & Kelly LLP partner Bill Kelly was instrumental in preventing the
Forest City Ratner Group from erecting a statue in front of Metrotech in
Brooklyn replicating the raising of the American flag by firefighters George
Johnson, Dan McWilliams and Bill Eisengrein on 9/11. Forest City Ratner's
design altered the ethnicities of the firefighters so that the statue would
be more "politically correct". The controversy made international news and
Bill successfully argued on behalf of firefighters that history should be
recorded factually and not to serve a political agenda.
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