Mother of Misplaced Boy Says Airline Offered Her $10K ‘Gift’

Passengers exit a JetBlue Airways Corp. plane at Long Beach Airport (LGB) in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Monday, July 22, 2013. JetBlue Airways Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 30. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Sanford Rubenstein, the lawyer representing the mother of a 5-year-old child who was accidentally placed aboard the wrong JetBlue flight on August 17, recently claimed that the airline offered to give the mother a “gift” of $10,000 after the incident became public knowledge. Rubenstein claims that Maribel Martinez answered a phone call from JetBlue corporate headquarters shortly after September 1, and that the caller used a translator and claimed to represent the airline.

Rubenstein reports that he has sent a letter to Joanne Geraghty, the airline’s general counsel, demanding that the airline communicate directly through him rather than attempt to call Martinez with any potential offers.

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