After Charles Wolf’s wife, Katharine, died at the World Trade Center, he became a leading critic of the 9/11 compensation fund.
Wolf even set up a Web site dubbed “Fix the Fund” to attack what he called overseer Kenneth Feinberg’s stinginess.
“I was reluctant to get in the fund because I thought it wasn’t going to be fair,” said Wolf.
Then, “we won, basically. Ken’s demeanor and attitude turned around . . . He did a 180. He finished up running things like he was supposed to.”
Wolf, 50, ended up pushing fellow survivors to apply to the fund. “Ken listened,” he said.
Wolf lost his wife – a 40-year-old classically trained pianist who also was his business partner – after 12 years of marriage.
On 9/11, she was a new employee for the Marsh & McLennan investment firm.
Now he’s on the verge of receiving a payout from the 9/11 fund. He did not disclose the amount.
“I’m going to invest the money either in an apartment or invest it to generate income,” said Wolf, who has lived for years in a Greenwich Village studio.