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Nursing home owners stole $83 million while neglecting residents, New York lawsuit says

  • July 17, 2023
June 28 (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general on Wednesday accused nursing home operator Centers Health Care and its owners of stealing $83 million in government funds while understaffing its facilities, resulting in widespread neglect, illness and death among residents. In a lawsuit filed in state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James sought to block four Centers nursing homes in New York from admitting new residents until they were sufficiently staffed, and to hire financial and healthcare monitors to oversee their compliance. James is also asking the court to force Centers, its owners Kenneth Rozenberg and Daryl Hagler and…
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Former Onslow County attorney to have portrait displayed in courthouse after decades of dedication | News

  • June 26, 2023
The family of a former Onslow County attorney has asked the Board of Commissioners to allow a portrait of him to be displayed in the Onslow County Courthouse. Roger Alston Moore was born in Charlotte but went to Woodberry Forest Prep School in Virginia, according to his wife, Lynda. He then went to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill before serving in the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Lynda said she was even awarded the Bronze Star. After serving in the Army, Moore headed to law school at Chapel Hill where he and Lynda met. Moore graduated…
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San Francisco’s Outed District Attorney Has a New Job

  • June 3, 2023
It was almost a year ago that San Francisco voters ousted their liberal district attorney, Chesa Boudin, in a recall election, as public frustration was growing over property crime and the visible despair and squalor on city streets. There was no compelling evidence that Boudin’s policies had made crime worse; overall, crime in San Francisco changed little in the time he was in office. Yet voters rejected his progressive message of taking a lenient approach. Boudin, who has largely stayed quiet since the recall, steps into a new role this week, as the founding executive director of the new Criminal…
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Defense attorneys in Karen Read case point to others they say are culpable in the death of John O’Keefe

  • May 4, 2023
Karen Read faces charges that she struck the man she loved with her car and left him to die in the cold, but defense attorneys say the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe is anything but her fault. Instead, the defense team’s recent court filings blatantly state, police should be looking to two others present at the party for culpability in O’Keefe’s death. “Ms. Read’s defense is predicated, in no small part, on a third-party culpability of defense,” wrote defense attorney Alan Jackson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who joined the team last September, in an affidavit filed on April…
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HAGENS BERMAN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Encourages PLDT

  • February 26, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hagens Berman urges PLDT Inc. (NYSE:PHI) investors who have suffered significant losses to submit your losses now. Class Period: Jan. 1, 2019 – Dec. 19, 2022Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Apr. 7, 2023Visits: www.hbsslaw.com/investor-fraud/PHI Contact An Attorney Now: [email protected] 844-916-0895 PLDT Inc. (NYSE: PHI) Securities Fraud Class Action: The litigation focuses on PLDT’s past disclosures about the capital expenditures incurred in its massive network transformation program. Specifically, the complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose that: (1) PLDT incurred huge capital spending overruns; and…