The California Assembly spent nearly $200,000 in public funds fighting against release of member-by-member budgets allocating tens of millions in public funds, records show.
Assembly administrator Jon Waldie said the sum does not include hundreds of hours, perhaps more than a thousand hours, consumed by Capitol employees in gathering records ultimately ordered released by a Sacramento court.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ruled in December against the Assembly in the public-records suit filed by The Bee and Los Angeles Times.
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A former longtime dean of students at the University of Iowa is seeking to join a former general counsel in litigation against the university and a private law firm, among other defendants, over the manner in which the two men handled a 2008 student sexual assault investigation.
Last month, a Johnson County District Court judge dismissed the wrongful termination and defamation suit brought by Phillip Jones. But now he and his lawyer, David Dutton of Waterloo, are appealing, the Press Citizen reports.
They contend that by placing too much blame on Jones, university officials and the Stolar Partnership tortiously interfered with his future business opportunities.
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Home Page Potential Lawsuit Smith & Wesson is recalling all Thompson Center Venture Rifles manufactured prior to October 28, 2011 due to a potentially fatal defect. The recall was issued because during an internal technical review, Smith & Wesson identified a condition that may exist with the sear supplied with some rifles that would allow the rifle to fire without the trigger being pulled. Any unintended discharge of a firearm has the potential to cause injury or death. Read full article…
WASHINGTON – An assistant administrator of a Houston hospital was arrested today on charges related to his alleged participation in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false claims for mental health treatment, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
An indictment filed in the Southern District of Texas and unsealed today charges Mohammed Khan, 62, of Houston, with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks and five counts of paying or offering to pay health care kickbacks. Khan is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court today in Houston.
“The indictment against Mr. Kahn alleges that he used his position as a hospital assistant adm
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Procter & Gamble said Wednesday it is reevaluating a planned $2.35 billion sale of its Pringles business to Diamond Foods in the wake of an accounting scandal and related financial restatements at the latter company.
Last year, Diamond—whose brands include Pop Secret popcorn and Emerald nuts—said it would acquire the Pringles unit with a combination of assumed debt and $1.5 billion in stock. The close of the deal was delayed last year amid an internal Diamond investigation into the company’s prior financial statements.
On Wednesday, Diamond announced that the inquiry had uncovered about $80 million in payments to walnut growers during 2010 and 2011 that were booked in the incorrect periods. Diamond s
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