Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 21, 2014. Pharmaceutical company Endo Health Solutions Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Endo) have agreed to pay $192.7 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from Endo’s marketing of the prescription drug Lidoderm for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
New Jersey Doctor Who Provided Spa Services Pleads Guilty in Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 21, 2014. Dr. Chang Ho Lee, 68, of Palisades Park, N.J., pleaded guilty today to health care fraud and agreed to forfeit more than $3.4 million in fraud proceeds. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of the Eastern[Read More…]
Ottawa, Ill., Man Sentenced To 7½ Years In Federal Prison For Receiving Child Pornography
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—February 20, 2014. An Ottawa, Ill., man was sentenced yesterday to 7½ years in federal prison for amassing a large collection of child pornography over more than four years. The defendant, JAY ARTHUR WIDEMANN, 57, of Ottawa, pleaded guilty last October to receiving child pornography, admitting that he had collected[Read More…]
Court Hears Appeal from Former Guantánamo Detainees in Damages Case
Men Were Abused Even after Military Found Them Not to Be “Enemy Combatants” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. A federal appeals court heard argument today on a civil lawsuit brought by six men formerly held at Guantánamo who were wrongly detained and abused while at the prison. The suit, one of[Read More…]
New CA Bill to Ban Driftnet Fishing to Protect Whales, Dolphins and Sea Turtles
Driftnets kill more than 100 whales, dolphins, and sea lions along CA coast every year Sacramento, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 21 2014. Yesterday Assemblymember Paul Fong (D-San Jose) introduced legislation (AB 2019) co-authored by Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael), Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay), and Anthony Rendon (D- Lakewood) to end the indiscriminate[Read More…]
District Court Vacancies Increase After Filibuster Reform
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. Despite a change to the Senate filibuster rule three months ago, the number of district court vacancies increased from 75 to 80 — reaching the highest vacancy level since March 2011, according to an updated analysis released by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School[Read More…]
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On the Gap Increasing Wages and the Question of Walmart
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. Gap’s announcement that it will raise its own minimum wage to $9.00 an hour in 2014 and $10 an hour next year represents a major victory by working people in their growing campaign to raise wages and working standards. While Gap has more work to do[Read More…]
Federal Court Strikes Down Bush-Era Stream-Dumping Rule
Pro-mountaintop removal measure and threat to clean water gets the axe Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. Yesterday a federal court struck down a controversial George W. Bush administration rule that opened up Appalachia’s streams and waterways to toxic dumping from destructive mountaintop removal mining operations. Numerous national and Appalachian environmental and[Read More…]
How to Catch a Satellite
Netting a derelict satellite EU–(ENEWSPF)–21 February 2014. Standard space dockings are difficult enough, but a future ESA mission plans to capture derelict satellites adrift in orbit. Part of an effort to control space debris, the shopping list of new technologies this ambitious mission requires is set for discussion with industry[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Statement on Crisis in Ukraine
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2014. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement yesterday in light of the continuing violence in Ukraine: “Ukrainian government officials involved in violence—and the Russian oligarchs who are backing them—should face a freeze on their assets and[Read More…]
