PITTSBURGH A resident of Bulger, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation and the forfeiture of $1.75 million on his conviction of maintaining a drug involved premises and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed the sentence on Stephen K. Shaner.
According to information presented to the court, Shaner was the owner and operator of SKS Associates, Inc., a buprenorphine clinic located in Johnstown, Pa. Buprenorphine is a controlled substance that is prescribed to opioid addicted patients and is dispensed under the names of Suboxone, Subutex, and Zubsolv. Two of the doctors employed at SKS Associates prescribed buprenorphine outside the course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. On many instances the doctors did not see or physically examine the patients they were treating and the patients were given pre-signed prescriptions
Federal Employees By State
October 03, 2013 •
The federal government currently employs about 2 million full-time employees, excluding Postal Service workers.
States with the most federal civilian employees as of June 2018 were California, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland and Texas. The vast majority of all federal employees about 79 percent work outside the D.C. region.
The U.S. Postal Service a quasi-governmental agency employs about 600,000 workers, the single largest segment of the civilian federal workforce. Other agencies employing the most civilian employees include the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs. More than a million active duty military further account for a significant portion of federal employment. (See active duty totals by state here
An Urgent Rescue Plan for Puerto Rico
By Federico de Jesús and Laura Rodriguez
April 28, 2021, 11:07 am
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Puerto Rico stands at a crossroads and acting boldly and with urgency, the Biden administration can provide the island with the relief it needs. While Puerto Rico’s
economic crisis has been at the forefront of recent public policy discourse, hurricanes Irma and Maria, subsequent natural disasters, and controversies involving the Puerto Rican central government have made it clear that Puerto Rico’s problems will continue to grow worse every day without an intervention of stimulus and support from the federal government. In addition to these hurdles, the Trump administration spent the past four years impeding Puerto Rico’s recovery
How a Norwegian Government Report Shows the Limits of CFIUS Data Reviews
The U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C. (Eric Weaver, https://flic.kr/p/8fJ7Hv; CC BY-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
Amid growing attention to data and national security threats from China, a recent Norwegian government report sheds light on the limits of a U.S. government process for tackling them: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
In 2019, CFIUS, which reviews foreign investments in sensitive U.S. companies for national security risks, initiated a review of Chinese company Beijing Kunlun Tech’s 2016 and 2018 investments into dating app Grindr. Beijing Kunlun Tech had a more than 98 percent ownership stake in Grindr. The committee’s logic was that Grindr’s user data, including on sexual orientation, sexual behavior and health data, was too sensitive to risk ending up in the hands of the Chinese government via the Chinese owner.