President Obama is caught smack in the middle of a family feud among 9/11 relatives of a financier killed at Ground Zero, The Post has learned.
The brothers of Adam Arias went ballistic when they learned that their aunt, Valerie Lucznikowska, was among the 9/11 relatives invited to last week’s White House meeting with Obama. The brothers were not invited.
Arias, 37, a vice president of operations at Euro Brokers who worked on the 84th floor of the World Trade Center South Tower, was the eighth victim identified following the terrorist attacks.
His brothers, Andy and Donald Arias, attended the hearings of five suspected plotters of the 9/11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay last month and support keeping the facility open and prosecuting the detainees immediately.
By comparison, Lucznikowska has complained about alleged torture of Gitmo detainees and favors closing Gitmo.
The Arias brothers both sent letters to Obama protesting her presence in the Oval Office because she does not speak for or represent the Arias family.
They complained that Lucznikowska is exploiting their brother’s name to promote her own agenda.
Lucznikowska defended her right to speak out, and insisted she never claimed to speak for anyone else.
“I don’t care what they say,” she said of her relatives. “I have a right to my opinion. I am representing my own view.”