Tim Heaney, world traveler and attorney, dies at 74 Erin Adler, Star Tribune
Tim Heaney was a student of the world, traveling to remote jungles in New Guinea when few others dared and planning family trips to communist China rather than Disney World. He enjoyed meeting the locals and he enjoyed the history, said son Mark Heaney. It was important to him that we have a worldly view of other cultures.
Heaney died of Parkinson s disease complications Dec. 31 at a Roseville assisted-living facility, after previously living in Falcon Heights. He was 74.
Born in 1946, Heaney was the second of Richard and Mary Ann Heaney s six children. He was born in Anoka, but his large Catholic family moved around, spending most of Heaney s childhood in Washington, D.C., because of his father s job as the assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) A 45-year-old Houston man has been sent to prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million following his convictions on five separate counts of sex trafficking involving adults and minors, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
A Houston federal jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting David Mearis back in October of 2019, following three days of trial.
Monday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt sentenced Mearis to life in federal prison on each count to run concurrently. He was further ordered to pay $921,680 in restitution to the victims.
At the hearing, the court heard excerpts from victim impact statements two of the victims had prepared.
‘Drug dealer in a white coat,’ doctor sent to prison for illegal opioid prescriptions
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
A Grand Rapids doctor was sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 12, to federal prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances. (MLive File Photo)Shutterstock
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former Grand Rapids physician was called a “drug dealer in a white coat” for prescribing opioids that were sold on the street.
Dr. Richard Samuel Piazza, 63, pleaded guilty to three charges of unlawfully writing prescriptions for controlled substances such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, two of the drugs behind the nation’s opioid crisis.
U.S. District Judge Janet Neff on Tuesday, Jan. 12, sentenced Piazza to nearly six years in prison, to be followed by three years on supervised release.
A Houston man convicted of sex trafficking adults and minors has been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution, authorities said.
What does it say about the humanitarian condition of US prisons and jails when one of the United States’ closest allies refuses to extradite a person for fear that American prison conditions would drive him to suicide? This is exactly what happened on Monday when a British court ruled against the United States’ extradition request for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange due to concerns that his health and safety cannot be assured in US custody. The.