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In October 2000, two General Electric (GE) employees filed a lawsuit claiming that GE sold defective turbine parts, and five more employees joined the suit in January 2002, alleging the company covered up defects in turbine blades and vanes during production. The federal government joined the suit after investigating the allegations and negotiated the s... - Salesian Order of Priests and the Rev. Stephen Whelan sexual abuse Settlement
More than three decades ago, Joey Piscitelli, a former altar boy at the Salesian order of priests, was allegedly sexually molested. Piscitelli, now aged 50, was a student at Salesian High School in Richmond where vice principal Rev. Stephen Whelan allegedly abused him between 1969 and 1971. The school did nothing to stop the sexual abuse and did not apo... - Endocare Inc. securities Settlement
Endocare Inc. was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of accounting fraud and recordkeeping practices during 2001 and 2002. A lawsuit claimed that the company fabricated sales and understated or deferred expenses to inflate earnings and show a history of consistent revenue growth, and at the same time, raising fresh capital from inve... - Jersey City wrongful death Settlement
Micheal Anglin, a 15-year-old Jersey City resident, was shot point blank and killed by Officer Vincent Corso in January 2000, after a stolen van he was riding in with friends was stopped after a chase. While the van's other occupants were getting handcuffed, Anglin allegedly approached the police officer, whose gun accidentally fired. No charges were la... - U.S. Department of Justice discrimination Settlement
Assistant U.S. attorney Mary Jude Darrow, 48, was fired in 2004 from her job in the Eastern District of North Carolina. According to her bosses, she was dismissed for professional misconduct and poor judgment, while Darrow claimed that she was supervised and disciplined differently than her colleagues. Darrow was a federal prosecutor handling drug, frau... - Red Lake School District wrongful death Settlement
On March 21, 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and grandfather's girlfriend on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, then went to Red Lake High school and killed seven more people before killing himself. Victims of families on the reservation filed a lawsuit against the Red Lake School District and they have settled for $1 million. The amou... - M.D.C. Holdings Inc., WL Homes and Chesapeake Title Reinsurance Co. illegal kickbacks Settlement
Denver-based M.D.C. Holdings Inc., which builds under the name Richmond American Homes, Newport Beach, Calif.-based WL Homes, which does business as John Laing Homes, and Chesapeake Title Reinsurance Co., a subsidiary of Citibank, were accused of violating a law against illegal kickbacks. They were allegedly involved in captive title reinsurance, a prac... - BP America natural gas royalty Settlement
BP America, formerly Amoco Production Co., was accused of not correctly calculating royalty payments. The case revolved around an underpayment of royalties for natural gas production in La Plata and Archuleta counties that was filed in May 1994 against Amoco Production Ltd. In 2003, a lawsuit ruled that BP couldn't deduct costs tied to getting the gas r... - Dr. James Shortt malpractice Settlement
In 2004, Mike Bate died of prostrate cancer while under the care of Dr. James Shortt. He went to Shortt for treatment in November 2003 and the alternative medicine doctor allegedly gave him intravenous hydrogen-peroxide treatments and falsely diagnosed him as having Lyme disease. In June 2004, Shortt prescribed testosterone, which caused Bate's prostate... - The San Jose Mercury News sexual harassment Settlement
Mark Newton, a console technician at The San Jose Mercury News, claimed he had been sexually harassed by a supervisor from October 2002 to about June 2003. Newton allegedly complained to another supervisor but the company failed to act on his accusations until he complained to upper management. A civil lawsuit was filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Op... - Marion County Medical Center fraud Settlement
Two doctors at Marion County Medical Center allegedly submitted false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare programs and some claims for services which didn't even take place. Marion has agreed to pay the U.S. government $3,750,000. A former employee and family practitioner, Dr. Kenneth Orbeck, was the whistle blower in the case and will receive $61... - Family Dollar Inc. civil penalty Settlement
Between November 2003 and February 2004, Family Dollar Inc. sold approximately 9,000 electric blankets. During the same time, the company received about 40 reports of malfunctions with the electric blankets, including fire, scorching, or smoke damage; and nine reported injuries. Family Dollar issued a recall in March 2004, but the U.S. Consumer Product... - Zyprexa Takes Major Hit In Alaska
Sep-30-06 A major legal victory recently occurred in the highest court in the state of Alaska, for all people who oppose forced psychiatric drugging - including Zyprexa . In a resounding affirmation of personal liberty, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of Myers v Alaska Psychiatric Institute and found Alaska's forced drugging regime to be un... - FDA Still Dodging Bullets Over Ketek
Sep-27-06 Washington, DC: In recent months Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has been like a dog with a bone when it came to investigating why FDA officials approved the antibiotic Ketek , despite its knowledge that the main pre-approval study on the drug was riddled with fraud. Ketek first sought approval in 2000, but approval was denied due to indications of s... - Kaiser Kidney Transplant Program Gets Reprieve From Medicare Officials
Sep-25-06 San Francisco, CA In August 2006, Kaiser Permanente , the nation's largest Health Maintenance Organization, agreed to pay a $2 million fine and donate $3 million to a charity group after numerous government investigations determined that the HMO caused harm, and in some cases death, to hundreds of kidney transplant patients. Two months earlier in Ju... - Home Depot Inc. racial Settlement
A lawsuit accused Home Depot Inc. of racial harassment and retaliation of former employee Mark Reid. The suit alleged that the Saugus, Mass. Home Depot subjected the former night crew worker to a racially hostile work environment and fired him for complaining about it. Home Depot will pay $125,000 to settle the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employmen... - Lisa Holland assault charges dismissed
In January, 2006 Tim Holland claimed that Lisa Holland slapped him and tried to throw an electric hair dryer at him while he was taking a shower. Assault charges against her were dismissed. The couple is currently waiting trial regarding the death of Ricky, their son. (Jul-17-06) [ WILX NEWS ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and... - Dede Harris harassment lawsuit dismissed
In a $5 million lawsuit, Peter Stern, a producer of the Off--Broadway show Dog Sees God, accused Dede Harris, another producer of the same production, of sexual harassment to one or more cast members of the show. The suit also accused Harris of fraudulent, reckless and grossly negligent behavior. Judge Herman Cahn dismissed the lawsuit and fined Stern a... - King City environmental Settlement
In November, 2004, a King City employee was seen burying eight containers of hazardous materials, later discovered to be automobile fluids and fuel, inside a closed landfill near a broccoli field. The employee had been ordered to dispose of the liquid by his boss, Salvador Morales, because of a pending inspection by the department of health. In an earli... - Mario Gabelli fraud Settlement
Between 1995 and 2000, Mario Gabelli and related companies allegedly participated in auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The prominent money manager allegedly created fake companies to gain an illegal advantage in the auctions of cell phone spectrum and in so doing, sought to benefit from public resources. The FCC claimed...