The old “certificate of need” law keeps coming up in my mind as I see a large number of health-care facilities spring up in the Colorado corridor that follows the
Pharmacist Sentenced to 3 Years for Tampering With COVID-19 Vaccines
A federal judge last week sentenced a Wisconsin pharmacist to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty on charges that he tampered with COVID-19 vaccines months ago.
Steven Brandenburg, who was a pharmacist based in Grafton, signed a guilty plea earlier in 2021 admitting that he removed hundreds of doses of Moderna’s CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine from refrigerators at the Aurora Medical Center. According to a Department of Justice news release, he removed the vaccines with the intent to destroy them.
Before receiving his sentence, Brandenburg said in a statement that he felt “great shame” and took responsibility. “I did not have the right to make this decision for them,” he said. “I’m tormented by it daily.”
Grand Forks County Commission denies request to lower taxes for department store
Grand Forks County Commissioners denied tax abatement for one property, granted it for two others, and set the date of April 12 for reopening county buildings to the general public. 8:13 pm, Mar. 16, 2021 ×
The Grand Forks County Office Building, photographed on Nov. 23, 2015. Photo by Nick Nelson/Grand Forks Herald
The Grand Forks County Commission denied a request to reduce the property value of a chain department store.
Commissioners, after a lengthy back-and-forth discussion with an attorney representing Kohl’s department store, on Tuesday unanimously rejected a request to reduce the 2018 full and true value of the property from just over $6.2 million to $3.7 million. Had the commission moved to lower the value of the property, taxes for the retailer would have been lowered for that year.
Wisconsin pharmacist accused of destroying dozens of COVID vaccine doses agrees to plead guilty By Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News
Published: January 27, 2021, 9:16am
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A Wisconsin pharmacist accused of pulling dozens of doses of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration has agreed to plead guilty to intentionally trying to make the coronavirus treatment ineffective.
Steven Brandenburg is facing two counts of attempting to tamper with consumer products, “with reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of death or bodily injury,” the Department of Justice said in a press release on Tuesday. The 46-year-old suspect has not formally pleaded guilty to the charges, but has signed a plea agreement “acknowledging” his guilt.