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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A group of people dressed in black vandalized at least two federal buildings in downtown Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve, and police said they recovered Molotov cocktails and other suspicious devices as they arrested seven of them, authorities said Friday.
Officers spotted about 50 people, all in black, around 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the historic U.S. Customs House, police said.
And a 25-year-old man was seen throwing a brick through the windows of a federal building and courthouse shortly before 9 p.m., police said. He fled with a 24-year-old man and two 23-year-old women, all of whom were arrested.
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PHILADELPHIA Six people were arrested after a group vandalized several federal buildings in Philadelphia’s Center City on New Year’s Eve, police said.
Officers spotted about 50 people, all dressed in black, at about 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the historic U.S. Customs House, where windows were smashed, police said. Three arrests were made there and three suspects in that vandalism were arrested elsewhere later.
Vandals then hit the Federal Detention Center, where anti-police and anti-prison graffiti were scrawled, police said. A nearby sheriff’s van was also defaced and several windows broken.
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AR-Ab is being kept in solitary confinement at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) of Philadelphia as he awaits sentencing and he’s reportedly not receiving medical care that he desperately needs. According to his little brother Lik Moss, AR-Ab is suffering from a growing infection due to an untreated stab wound.
“Right now, he’s in a position where he can’t walk at all,” Lik said on
Da Interrogation Room. “But he’s on a block with my brother and little cousin so they kind of taking care of him right now. … Probably about 80 percent of his body is black. It’s pussing and bleeding. And he ain’t used the bathroom in a week like urinated. So we know that’s a kidney problem. But they not giving him no medical attention. … when he got stabbed they took him to the hospital well, not the hospital but you know, the medical. Then they put him right in the hole. … He catch hives in the hole. … He blackout then they take him to medical. But, they don’t run n
The cardiovascular surgeon who sought outpatients in poor communities to swindle and defraud for his own personal gain, has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.
deGraft-Johnson, owner of the now-shuttered Heart and Vascular Institute of North Florida, was indicted on numerous counts of health-care fraud and related charges.
He pleaded guilty to 56 counts of health-care fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of billing Capital Health Plan, Medicare, and others for procedures he never performed at the clinic and walking away with at least $29 million, which he used to bankroll a jet-set lifestyle.
He appeared before U.S. Chief District Judge Mark Walker via video link from the Federal Detention Center in Tallahassee, where he has been held since his indictment was unsealed.