Feds lodge additional charges against Stanford researcher with alleged ties to the Chinese military
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FILE - This Thursday, June 14, 2018, file photo, shows the FBI seal at a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press
In July of 2020, federal prosecutors brought criminal visa fraud charges against a Stanford University medical researcher who was allegedly a secret member of the Chinese military.
On Thursday, the government added additional charges, including obstruction of an official investigation and altering, destroying or concealing records.
The superseding indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Chen Song, a Chinese national and a neurologist, came to Stanford in early 2019. She had an appointment as a Visiting Scholar and was going to work in a neurological research lab at the University.
In Bay Area nursing homes, the vaccine is already saving lives
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Laguna Honda resident Bernadette Yee, who has been vaccinated, is pushed by activity therapy supervisor Yaffa Alter.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Resident Bernadette Yee pushes herself through the hallway.at Laguna Honda, San Francisco’s largest skilled nursing facility.Gabrielle Lurie / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
The coronavirus pandemic has been hard on Bernadette Yee, who lives at Laguna Honda, San Francisco’s largest skilled nursing facility.
Her sister used to visit every day, but for months they’ve spoken only by FaceTime or WhatsApp. Yee, 65, has yet to meet one of her grand-nieces, who was born last May. She stays in her room for meals and hasn’t been able to leave the facility to get massages that help her manage muscle stiffness from sitting in a wheelchair most of the day the result of a stroke five years ago that left her partially para
S.F. community groups trying to stop UCSF s expansion of Parnassus campus
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UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Three organizations filed separate lawsuits Friday in an effort to stop UCSF from building a 2 million-square-foot hospital and academic facility expansion at its historic Parnassus campus.
The groups that filed lawsuits in Alameda Superior Court San Franciscans for Balanced and Livable Communities, the Parnassus Neighborhood Coalition and the Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium seek to overturn a decision by the University of California Board of Regents to allow the Parnassus expansion to go forward.
They argue that constructing a large, regional hospital on a dense hillside sandwiched between two residential neighborhoods would have severe environmental impacts on everything from traffic to air quality to public transportation. They argue that the impact of the project was not adequatel
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