9/11 Families See Lutnick, Who Lost Brother in Attack, as Last Hope for Justice

Days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center where her husband worked at the municipal bond desk of Cantor Fitzgerald, Kai Thompson Hernandez got a strangely reassuring message from his boss. Stop hoping for survivors. No one in the top floors made it out, the chief executive of the firm, Howard Lutnick , told anxious families waiting in a hotel ballroom. Lutnick, who lost a brother in the attacks, survived only because he was running late that day dropping his son off at kindergarten. Hernandez remembers...