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Bibi1581 Blog For 11/24/2017: Morning Edition

1…………> Egypt Mosque Attack

Gunmen arrived in four off-road vehicles in the town of Bir al Abed, launching a bomb and gun attack on the al-Rawda mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province, killing 235 people and injuring hundreds.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42110223

2…………> “Fake Drugs” Fraud: Indiana

Caprice R. Bearden, 63, of Carmel, Indiana, a former compliance director of an Indiana compounding pharmacy pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, three misdemeanor counts of introducing an adulterated drug in interstate commerce, and six misdemeanor counts of adulterating drugs while held for sale after shipment of a drug component in interstate commerce.

“This guilty plea demonstrates the Justice Department’s commitment to protecting patients and ensuring that compounded drugs are safe. Distributing out-of-specification drug products poses a serious risk of harm to patients. The Justice Department will not tolerate efforts to impede FDA’s ability to uncover these types of safety concerns,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. 

 
 

3………….> International Mail Fraud: New York

 A federal court in New York entered consent decrees in two civil actions, permanently barring 14 individuals and entities from operating alleged multi-million dollar international mail-fraud schemes. 

Both schemes followed a similar pattern, involving a complicated web of actors located across the world. Fraudulent “direct mailers” created letters falsely claiming that the recipient has won, or will soon win, cash or valuable prizes, or otherwise will come into good fortune. In order to collect these benefits, the letters say that the recipients need only send in a small amount of money for a processing fee. The letters appeared to come from legitimate sources, typically on official-looking letterhead, but were in fact fictitious individuals and organizations including “Baroness de Rothman,” “DNF Funds Office,” “Finkelstein & Partner,” the “Harrison Institute,” and Marie de Fortune. Moreover, even though the solicitations are in reality identical form letters sent to thousands or tens of thousands of recipients – the letters appear to be personally addressed. 

“The Department of Justice is committed to protecting all Americans from fraud and exploitation,” Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand said. “This exploitation is repugnant and the Justice Department will pursue those who target our nation’s seniors and other vulnerable American consumers for financial gain. These consent decrees are just one example of the department’s broad efforts to protect seniors—and every American—from mail fraud.”

“The defendants preyed on the elderly and other vulnerable citizens through fictitious lotteries and other exploitive games, unfairly enriching themselves at the expense of these victims,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Rohde for the Eastern District of New York. “These consent decrees put the defendants out of the exploitation business. This Office is committed to pursuing the perpetrators and enablers of such schemes, in New York and abroad, to hold them accountable and to protect others from being swindled.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/district-court-enters-permanent-injunctions-shutting-down-two-groups-international-defendants


4………..> The Battle Of The Arctic: Russia
The Arctic Ocean is estimated to hold billions of barrels of oil, and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas – accounting for 16-26% of the Earth’s undiscovered reserves. And there’s a superpower scrambling to beat all others in the race to exploit this chilly mother lode of polar resources: Russia, a country that has
embarked on a mission to drill deep into the Arctic seabed, sending a fleet of underwater robots and unmanned submarines into the Earth’s harshest waters.
 
“An abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event” was recorded in the south Atlantic by the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) last week, dashing hopes that the 44 crew of a missing Argentine submarine might still be alive after the navy said an event consistent with an explosion had been detected.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42100620

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