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Afternoon Briefs: Senator airs suspicions of fake Kavanaugh probe; prosecutors sue senior living chain
Senator wants to know whether FBI probe of Kavanaugh was ‘fake’
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland should help facilitate Senate oversight into whether the FBI conducted a “politically constrained and perhaps fake FBI investigation” of then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, according to a senator’s letter. Democratic U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote that the FBI appears to have done little to investigate Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh committed sexual misconduct at a high school party. Whitehouse said potential witnesses tried in vain to contact the FBI, and it appeared that the FBI did not review information gathered through a tip line. “This ‘tip line’ appears to have operated more like a garbage chute,” Whitehouse wrote. (The Guardian, Whiteh
Three LAPD officers plead not guilty to falsifying information
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LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles Police Department officers pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that they falsified records that claimed people they had stopped were gang members.
Rene Braga, 40, Raul Uribe, 35, and Julio Garcia, 36, were charged last October, less than three months after three other officers who had also worked at the LAPD s Metropolitan Division Braxton Shaw, Michael Coblentz and Nicolas Martinez were charged with similar crimes.
Braga, Uribe and Garcia are accused of falsifying field interview cards that were used by officers to conduct interviews while they were on duty, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office.
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California prosecutors filed a lawsuit on Monday against Brookdale Senior Living, claiming the nursing home chain knowingly manipulated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services star rating system to lure prospective patients and their families to its facilities.
Brookdale is among the largest senior living community operators, with more than 68,000 facilities across the nation, according to Argentum. The lawsuit pertains to Brookdale s California skilled nursing facilities in Bakersfield, Camarillo, Carlsbad, Northridge, Rancho Mirage, San Diego, San Dimas, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Rosa and Yorba Linda.
The prosecutors claim that up until April 2018, Brookdale submitted false staffing information to CMS, specifically by inflating registered nursing hours, which led to undeserved higher star ratings in the RN staffing, staffing and overall categories on CMS s website, according to the lawsuit.
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Calif. Targets Dark Patterns With Beefed Up Privacy Regs
Law360 (March 16, 2021, 9:09 PM EDT) California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced new regulations Monday aimed at controlling the sale of personal information in the Golden State, this time targeting so-called dark patterns that make it harder for consumers to opt out of the sale of their data.
It s the latest round of modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act, which was signed into law in June 2018 and took effect last year. The landmark law strengthened data privacy rights for consumers, giving them the right to know about the collection of personal information, delete it and opt out of its sale.