Archive for April 2nd, 2010
Law Enforcement Officials Seek, Find Medicare Fraud
The Palm Beach Post: To pay for the health reform bill, Medicare fraud is “ripe for plucking, top South Florida prosecutors say.” “In 2008, of all the Medicare payouts for home health care services nationwide, over 50 percent were shelled out in Miami-Dade. That was despite the fact that only 2 percent of patients receiving [...]
Roeder Faces Sentencing For Murder Of Abortion Provider Tiller
Fifty-two-year-old Scott Roeder, who has been convicted of first degree murder in the May 2009 shooting of abortion provider George Tiller, will receive a mandatory minimum life sentence at his sentencing hearing Thursday morning, Reuters reports (Gilliam, Reuters, 4/1)…
Democratic, Republican Attorneys General Continue Health Reform Lawsuit Battle
Politico: Some of the Democratic attorneys general who have refused to join Republican counterparts in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health law, now “have become reluctant combatants, dragged into the fray by GOP governors and legislators who insist that their reluctance to join the case is a clear attempt to protect their [...]
88,000 US Citizen Children Lost Lawful Immigrant Parent To Deportion: Children Left Behind Suffer Psychological, Behavioral Problems
The United States government has deported the lawful immigrant parents of nearly 88,000 citizen children in just a decade, according to a new report released from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Davis law schools…
Probation Officers Rehabilitation Aim At Odds With Government Punishment Agenda
In recent years the UK Government has been placing less emphasis on the idea of probation as a form of rehabilitation, instead re-framing it as ‘punishment in the community,’ with a focus on protecting the public…
