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Morgan County Jail inmate indicted in attack on corrections officer
Lemond Lawrence Burns
He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Posted: Jul 27, 2021 5:39 PM
Updated: Jul 27, 2021 5:39 PM
Posted By: Josh Rayburn
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted a Morgan County Jail inmate with assault of a correctional officer resulting in bodily injury, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick Davis.
Lemond Lawrence Burns, 22, of Alpine is accused of assaulting an on-duty corrections officer in the Morgan County Jail in April. (Read more about that HERE)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - A pharmaceutical company headquartered in Delaware has agreed to pay $12.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks.
Today’s settlement resolves allegations that, from November 2011 through December 2014, Incyte Corporation purportedly used an independent foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of certain federal beneficiaries taking Incyte’s drug Jakafi, which was approved to treat myleofibrosis in 2011. Specifically, Incyte was the sole donor to a fund that was opened in November 2011 to assist only myleofibrosis patients. After the fund opened, the government alleges that Incyte used the fund to pay the copays of federal beneficiaries taking Jakafi who were ineligible for assistance from the fund because they did not have myleofibrosis. Incyte managers pressured the foundation, through phone calls and emails, to provide economic assista
Two former employees of an Alabama Chick-fil-A have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to defraud the chicken chain of “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” federal prosecutors said.
Chick-fil-A Workers Sent Over $100K in Customer Payments to Their Own Accounts: DoJ
On 4/29/21 at 6:29 AM EDT
Two former Chick-fil-A employees in Alabama have been charged with allegedly conspiring to defraud the company by diverting payments made at the fast food restaurant where they worked directly into their own bank accounts.
Larry James Black Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former director of hospitality at Chick-fil-A in the Five Points area of Birmingham, and Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former manager at the same location, have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
Black is also charged with bank fraud and misuse of a social security number.