Ex-Insys employee pleads guilty in U.S. to opioid kickback scheme
(Reuters) – A former Insys Therapeutics Inc sales representative pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having participated in a scheme to pay kickbacks to medical practitioners to prescribe a drug containing the opioid fentanyl, U.S. prosecutors said.
New York woman gets three years for $23 million fraud
(Reuters) – A New York woman sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to defrauding investors, including friends and family members, out of more than $23 million.
New York office concessions increase in sign of market’s strength
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Property landlords have roughly doubled the concessions they grant in New York office leases over the past decade, a sign analysts say is one of strength not weakness as tenants demand swankier workplaces to attract and retain empl…
U.S. EPA chief says to treat diesel emissions cheating ‘very aggressively’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said the agency must ensure Volkswagen AG’s excess diesel emissions is not repeated, and will treat improper behavior by automakers “very aggressively.”
U.S. government scraps plans to replace crumbling FBI headquarters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration has scrapped a $1.4 billion plan to replace the crumbling headquarters of the FBI and ended a years-long effort to find the crime-fighting agency a new home, officials said on Tuesday.
Trump Jr. emails suggest he welcomed Russian help against Clinton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow’s o…
U.S. free-speech group sues Trump for blocking Twitter users
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A free-speech group on Tuesday sued U.S. President Donald Trump for blocking Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump account, arguing the practice violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Around 40 percent of Americans were harassed online: survey
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment, most commonly on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Tuesday.
Artist to debut 3D portraits produced from Chelsea Manning’s DNA
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Around thirty three-dimensional portraits of Chelsea Manning, created using the DNA of the transgender U.S. Army soldier imprisoned for leaking classified data, will greet visitors at eye-level at an exhibition opening in New York …
FAA probes near-miss by Air Canada flight in San Francisco
MONTREAL (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how an Air Canada pilot lined up to land last week on a San Francisco International Airport taxiway where four planes were waiting to depart, the agency said on Tuesday.
