The claims were approved by the North Carolina Industrial Commission and signed off on by the North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's office in May 2013. Total compensation was $1,113,605: Ben Chavis received $244,470 (), Marvin Patrick received $187,984 (), with most of the remaining rewards being $175,000 each (). As four of the Wilmington Ten were deceased before the December 2012 pardons, their families received no compensation. a case was pending before the NC Industrial Commission, seeking that compensation be awarded to the families of the four deceased: Jerry Jacobs (d. 1989), Joe Wright (d. 1991), Ann Shepard (d. 2011), and Connie Tindall (d. 2012).