9. William Beaumont Hospital based in Detroit, will pay $84.5 million for improper relationships with 8 referring physicians, resulting in submission of false claims to the Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE programs.
10. Mora Development To Pay A Fine Of $3 Million For Violation Of Clean Water Act.
MORA discharged more than 29,000,000 gallons of sewage into the municipal stormwater system and Quilan Creek.
11. USDA seized app. 568,000 pounds of meat & poultry from AA Meat Products, and issued a Class I recall which led to recovery of another half million pounds – all of which had to be destroyed
12. NY Man Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets.
Xiaoqing Zheng, an engineer employed by G.E., used elaborate means to remove electronic files containing GE’s trade secrets involving its turbine technologies.
14. Doctor Sentenced To 18 Months For Participating In $30 Million Scheme To Defraud Medicare And Medicaid.
Mustak Vaid was sentenced for defrauding Medicare and the NY State Medicaid Program.
16. Dr. Dwight Bailey wrote prescriptions for opiates, benzodiazepines, and sleeping pills to patients who were misusing, abusing, and diverting those controlled substances. He earned more than $750,000 in a single year.
19. Subsidiary Of Lehman Brothers Agrees To Pay $41M For Conduct In Originating & Selling Mortgage Loans.
Wow, it's taken all this time for them to be prosecuted. What happened between 2008 and now??
20. Early Autism Project, Inc., South Carolina's Largest Provider of Behavioral Therapy for Children with Autism, Pays the United States $8.8 Million to Settle Allegations of Fraud
22. Four defendants together with 20 Philippines legislators and other government officials NOT CHARGED converted hundreds of millions in Philippine public funds and then transmitted $20 million to the United States
25. Former Executive Director Sentenced To 37 Months In Federal Prison
Tracy Bronson embezzled $573,159 from the Calhoun Conservation District between 2014 and 2017
26. Dana Cain downloaded nearly 500 movie files from May 2015 through January 2017. These movies include images of toddlers and young girls being raped and sexually assaulted
30. Reno Man Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Creating Over 8,000 Fraudulent Online Accounts With Stolen Identities To Commit $3.5 Million Fraud Scheme
35. The unsealed indictment alleges that the defendants are members of an international sex trafficking organization that exploited & trafficked adult and minor women in Mexico and in the US from at least 2000 to 2016.
1/4 Big tech companies claim "security breaches/bugs" have exposed our private data but it's all BS. They're intentionally passing on our personal info/DMs to 3rd party (Dem "affiliates") to target voters for midterms.
"Today, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a number of illiberal and undemocratic laws which are aimed at consolidating the current regime and which would divide Ukraine further.
One law is aimed at closure of only two news TV channels which broadcast not only pro-government and far right but also alternative, critical, and opposition viewpoints and speakers.
Another law makes the official greeting of the fascist OUN the official greeting of the Ukrainian army and the police. The third law institutes forced Ukrainization.
BIG. Phantom Secure is owned by Splunk which partners with Booz Allen, Cisco, Amazon, Verizon...
Vincent Ramos, CEO of Phantom Secure, pled guilty to transnational distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/c…
"Since 2010, the organization purchased and sold wholesale quantities of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana. They used the U.S. Postal Service to purchase and mail these drugs to and from various distributors in the Continental United States.
U.S. Postal Employees were aware of the shipments of controlled substances and would hold the packages for pick-up by co-conspirators or divert them to other members of the conspiracy.
Members of the conspiracy included police officers who would provide information regarding investigations of the conspirators, interfere in police investigations for the benefit of the conspirators, provide information to the conspirators on how to avoid police detection,
"The decision by President Trump not to declassify did two things: (1) it gave the President leverage over Rosenstein and by extension over Mueller. After all, the construct of the special counsel was built upon DOJ/FBI intentional lies and FISA fraud.
(2) the decision places a heavy burden upon the Inspector General to be brutall honest with his FISA report. If the IG is not brutally honest, Trump releases the declassified information and the IG is shown as participating in a cover-up.
All of this leverage makes the position of DAG Rod Rosenstein tenuous. Do you think Rosenstein likes the idea of sitting around waiting for the IG report to show the world how badly he botched the DOJ job, and even facilitated their corrupt activity, during his stewardship?
“I was a maître d’ at a restaurant for thirteen years. But one week I got a really bad case of pneumonia that put me in the hospital. While I was lying in that hospital bed, I was thinking about how I really didn’t want to go back to work.
Then that motivational speaker came on TV. You know-- the one that has all those teeth in his mouth. And he said: Think back to what made you happy when you were young! That’s what you should be doing!’
Well I grew up in the country, and I always had a lot of dogs, so I thought that nothing would make me happier than to be a dog walker. But I knew I needed to distinguish myself. So I decided to make a uniform. I smoked a joint and came up with this outfit.