Items from a COVID-19 test kit are displayed for a photograph. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have criminally charged a Georgia man for allegedly conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs “by submitting fraudulent testing claims” for coronavirus and genetic cancer screenings, authorities announced Monday. The man, 49-year-old Erik […]
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Facebook offers free ads to WHO, will remove flase claims
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social network will give the World Health Organization free advertising for its coronavirus response and take down false claims about the virus. Users […]
Trump friend Roger Stone sentenced to prison for WikiLeaks lies
A federal judge sentenced President Donald Trump’s friend, longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, on Thursday to more than three years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness in an effort to protect Trump. “He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for […]
Dems use Republicans’ own words against them
Democratic impeachment managers pushing the Senate to take away President Donald Trump from workplace laid out a sprawling argument Thursday that he had abused his energy. On their second day of opening statements, the seven House Democrats, led by Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., zeroed in on the primary of two articles of […]
Chris Collins sentenced to 26 months for insider trading tip
A disgraced and extremely emotional former New York congressman Chris Collins was sentenced Friday to 26 months in jail for an unlawful inventory tip that he gave his son from the White House garden a couple of biopharmaceutical firm’s failed drug trial. The sentence from Judge Vernon Broderick in U.S. District Court in […]