Behind the special unit that investigated New York s nursing home deaths
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2019 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a news conference at her office in New York. New York s attorney general on Thursday, June 18, 2020, blasted the New York City Police Department and the mayor for ignoring repeated invitations to testify at a hearing on allegations that officers used excessive force to quell unrest and enforce a citywide curfew in the wake of George Floyd s death in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, FIle)Richard Drew
ALBANY The special bureau in the attorney general s office that investigated breakdowns in the treatment of nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic took shape about 45 years ago when state leaders, including then-Gov. Hugh Carey, created an autonomous unit that was staffed with prosecutors and tasked with probing fraud and malfeasance in long-term elderly care facilities.
Philadelphia IBEW Contractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud, Theft
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For Donald Dougherty, the old habits wouldn’t go away. That’s why he’s likely to go to prison. On January 21, Dougherty, a Philadelphia-based electrical contractor, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to one count each of tax fraud and theft related to his work with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98. Several members of that Philadelphia union were indicted by a grand jury two years ago. Dougherty and an accountant for his firm, Michael McKale, were indicted separately this past November 25 on multiple fraud and theft charges. The actions follow a joint probe by the FBI, the IRS and the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, Employee Benefits Security Administration, and Office of Inspector General.
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Lemon is supported by LADD - an agency that empowers adults with developmental disabilities, assisting with housing, employment and other means of independence - and falls into Phase 1A of Ohio s vaccine distribution plan. She is one of several hundred people LADD is helping get their first of two shots by Jan. 27. The city of Cincinnati Health Department has been working closely with us to ensure that we have enough vaccines to get the individuals that we work with that are part of the first 1A group vaccinated, says Brian Hart, LADD s chief strategy officer.
Outdoor heaters pumped warm air across a cold sidewalk as a people trickled in and out of LADD s offices turned impromptu clinic on a recent Saturday.