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Maryland part of national pacemaker settlement
Maryland will get nearly $10,000 as part of a national settlement involving kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to implant pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators in patients, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced Thursday....Tags: General Practitioners, Douglas F. Gansler, Bribery, Medical Research, Corporate Crime
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Parkville woman accused of insurance fraud
A 35-year-old Parkville woman has been charged with three counts of insurance fraud stemming from allegations that she filed three fraudulent claims and was paid a total of $21,563, the office of the Maryland attorney general said Thursday. Charges...Tags: Lawyers, AFLAC Inc., Douglas F. Gansler, Insurance, Parkville
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Harford County Police Blotter
Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Lazarus Alexander Turner, 20, of the first block of Roosevelt Avenue, was arrested on a bench warrant Thursday in a case in which he was charged with driving without the...Tags: Maryland State Police, Unemployment Benefits, Patrick Kelly, Rosedale (Queens, New York), Federal Hill
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The crisis in public morality
Republicans have morality upside down. They're condemning gay marriage, abortion, access to contraception, and the wall separating church and state. But the moral crisis in America isn't a breakdown in private morality. It's a breakdown in public...
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So much for your day in court
If you think you will have your day in court when aggrieved by civil injustice, think again. More likely, you will be headed for a meeting run by a professional arbitrator. Ironically, the Supreme Court is to blame. It is leading a quiet transformation by...Tags: Arbitration, Litigation, Laws, Securities, Trials
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Mayor wants to expand property-tax effort
The number of city workers charged with rooting out property tax fraud and errors would triple — from one employee to three — under Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's budget proposal for next fiscal year. The "billing integrity" program,...Tags: Patterson Park, Property Tax, Local Government, Condos and Houses, Credit and Debt
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Woman defrauds NSA for family firm, then embezzles $4.5 million
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the final member of a family business that was used to cheat the National Security Agency out of nearly $1.5 million, prosecutors said. Christina Turley Knott, 51, of Edgewater, was sentenced to 15 months in...Tags: National Security Agency, Calvert County, Prisons, Punishment, Lawyers
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Sentencing, guilty plea in $4M mortgage fraud scheme
An Edgewater man was sentenced to six years in prison and a Crofton man pleaded guilty Friday for their involvement in a Gambrills-based mortgage fraud scheme in which they stole nearly $5 million for their personal use, prosecutors said. Gary Pierce,...Tags: Mortgages, Prisons, Punishment, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Another day, another security breach.
Even among the hundreds of data breaches that occur each year, the hacking of card processor Global Payments stands out. The Atlanta-based company, which processes credit and debit card transactions for Visa and MasterCard, recently revealed that hackers...Tags: Email, Theft, Viral Diseases and Infections, Equifax Incorporated, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Schurick trial: A punishment to fit the crime
Considering that Paul Schurick faced as much as 12 years in prison for his role in a 2010 election day robocall that fraudulently urged voters to stay home from the polls, the sentence handed down today to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s 2010 campaign...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Voting, Prisons, Punishment, Trials
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Special audit shows risk for fraud in some Harford contracts
A special audit involving Harford County contracting procedures found instances where the county relied too much on non-competitive bid service contracts and, as a result, left itself open for possible fraud, misappropriation of county assets and the...Tags: Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Facebook, Accounting and Auditing, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Local Government
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Ethics committee recommends Currie be censured
The General Assembly's joint ethics committee has recommended unanimously that the Senate censure Sen. Ulysses Currie, once a powerful committee chairman, for failing to disclose that he was being paid to represent a grocery chain before state agencies....Tags: Republican Party, Groceries, Reisterstown Road, Maryland General Assembly, Values
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