Waller County and Texas come through on $1.9 million Sandra Bland settlement
A year and a half after possibly the most grueling ordeal of her life, Sandra Bland's mother has been made whole. At least in the legal sense.
Geneva Reed-Veal and her representatives jointly recently received $1.9 million, the full balance of the federal wrongful death settlement with state and Waller County officials, said her attorney, Cannon Lambert, Sr. A portion of that money will go to her legal team in Chicago and San Antonio.
Reed-Veal has remained somber in the days since the checks arrived--one for $1.8 million from Waller County and the other for $100,000 from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Lambert said.
"I think she's just now coming to grips with the fact that she can finally start to turn the page but with the holidays, she's very reflective right now," he said.
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