But she said U.S. lawyer Robert Swift spurned her offer without even consulting the "so-called" victims. Swift said he turned the $30 million proposal down because it was too low.A Hawaiian jury has found the late Ferdinand Marcos's estate liable for human rights violations in a class suit filed by Swift on behalf of 10,000 victims. It awarded the victims $1.2 billion in damages, but to avoid protracted legal squabbling, the judge in the case proposed $100 million as an out-of-court settlement which Swift had said would be acceptable to the victims.
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