Texas home-health agency indicted in $13 million Medicare fraud: U.S. Justice Dept.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal agents arrested and indicted the owners and administrators of a Texas-based home-health agency on Tuesday for defrauding Medicare of around $13 million through billing for unnecessary or non-existent services, the U.S. Ju…
U.S. regulators accused two Chinese citizens of insider trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators have accused two Chinese citizens at a peer-to-peer lending platform of engaging in insider trading ahead of the announcement that two companies had agreed to be acquired by private equity firms.
Court postpones hearing on alleged Connecticut mobster
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A federal court in Connecticut has rescheduled a hearing at which lawyers for an accused Connecticut mobster will ask a judge to dismiss gun charges against him, contending they are an effort by federal agents to make him tal…
Terminally ill man granted wish to see Star Wars movie has died
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The terminally ill Texas man and “Star Wars” fan who was granted his dying wish to see the new “The Force Awakens” film before it comes out in theaters has died, just a few days after viewing the movie, the man’s wife said in …
VW only carmaker found cheating by U.S. regulator: magazine
BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen is the only carmaker whose diesel engines have been found so far by a U.S. regulator to be using illicit emissions-control software, German magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported.
Florida ‘Facebook Killer’ to claim self defense in wife’s murder
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida man accused of shooting his wife and posting an image of her lifeless body on Facebook was acting in self defense, his lawyer plans to argue at the start of his Miami murder trial on Tuesday.
Ohio State quarterback pleads guilty to impaired driving
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – J.T. Barrett, the starting quarterback for the undefeated Ohio State University Buckeyes, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving a vehicle while impaired, after being stopped by police last month at a checkpoint.
Ex-Disneyland employee gets one year in jail for seeking sex from minor
A former Disneyland employee accused of offering tickets to the Southern California amusement park to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl in exchange for sex acts has been sentenced to one year in jail after pleading guilty to the charges, author…
White supremacist to be sentenced for Kansas murders
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) – A judge is expected to decide on Tuesday whether a white supremacist convicted of shooting three people to death at two Jewish centers in Kansas last year should be sentenced to death.
University of Missouri president, chancellor out after race protest
COLUMBIA, Mo. (Reuters) – The University of Missouri’s president stepped down on Monday and its chancellor moved aside after protests by the school’s football team and other students over what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on cam…
