Former Chicago Public Schools chief sentenced for fraud
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday sentenced the former chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools to 4-1/2 years in prison for her role in a scheme to steer lucrative contracts to one of her previous employers in exchange for kickbacks a…
American Realty ex-CFO loses bid to dismiss fraud indictment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss an indictment accusing a former chief financial officer of American Realty Capital Properties Inc of fraudulently inflating financial data for the big real estate investment trust.
Four workers injured in incident at BP’s Whiting, Indiana refinery: company
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Four workers were injured on Friday in a power distribution center at BP Plc’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery, the company said in a statement.
California enacts $52 billion fuel tax hike for road, bridge repairs
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Friday a bill to raise gasoline taxes and other transportation-related fees for the first time in decades in an ambitious $52 billion plan to repair the state’s long-neglected r…
Two arrested on charges of illegal exports to Russia get time served
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two Russian nationals arrested in the United States last October on charges of conspiring to export sensitive military technology from the United States to Russia were sentenced to time served on Friday, a spokesman for U.S. prosec…
Florida eye doctor found guilty of scamming Medicare
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury on Friday found a Florida eye doctor guilty of defrauding Medicare by as much as $105 million by using false claims, including charging for eye tests of blind patients, according to a federal court document.
Indiana man pleads guilty in murder spree referencing the movie ‘The Purge’
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Indiana man pleaded guilty to killing three people during a four-day crime spree during which he referred to “The Purge,” a movie about a day where all crimes are legal, prosecutors said on Friday.
Judge tosses Chicago school lawsuit over Illinois funding inequities
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Illinois judge dealt a blow to Chicago’s cash-strapped school system on Friday by dismissing its lawsuit that argued the state’s school-funding formula discriminates against minority students.
State Department OKS $1.46 billion aircraft sale to New Zealand: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $1.46 billion sale to New Zealand of four P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft and associated support, a Pentagon agency said on Friday.
Trump pledges fealty to NRA gun lobby
ATLANTA (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pledged to uphold Americans’ right to possess guns on Friday in a speech that he used to revisit some 2016 election campaign themes from his vow to build a border wall to dismissing a Democratic senator as “Po…
