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In August 2018 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched an investigation that is shaking up the U.S. biomedical community. A new round of terminations has resulted in 54 scientists losing their jobs with the taxpayer-funded institute. The investigation is on-going. The scientists, all grant recipients, failed to disclose financial ties to a foreign government – mostly China.189 researchers were investigated and 93% were found to be tied to China. So, 54 researchers were terminated or resigned for violating NIH rules against simultaneously receiving funds from the U.S. government and foreign entities. In other words, the scientists aren’t allowed...

Former DEA Public Affairs Officer Scammed Victims by Posing Falsely as Covert CIA Officer Involved in a Highly-classified Intelligence Program A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) public affairs officer was sentenced today to seven years in prison for defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing falsely as a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia; Assistant Director in Charge Steven M. D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; CIA Acting...

Joe Courtney held up the poster-sized chart and pointed to the numbers printed in purple: 7,700 seniors in his Eastern Connecticut district got a discount on their prescription drug payments last year, thanks to federal health reform. That included 530 seniors from Enfield, where he had come to chat at the senior center, 143 in neighboring Suffield and hundreds more in several other towns listed on the chart. "This chart shows that there is improvement that's happening to the system," the congressman told the audience of 50 or so seniors. He noted that the health reform law is phasing out...

Hoping to stir public outrage against a rival, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are brawling over who is responsible for the most "earmarks," special projects inserted into spending bills. While the presidential hopefuls portray earmarks as a corrupting influence on politics and a waste of taxpayer funds, Connecticut lawmakers, among others, are taking a different view. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, calls earmarks "the most misunderstood thing in Congress." "There's a difference between a 'bridge to nowhere' and funding for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum," he said. The "bridge to nowhere" was a project in a remote corner of Alaska that...

Despite what a major ratings house indicated today, U.S. Rep. Joseph Courtney says the United States, "is still a Triple-A Nation.'' Standard & Poor's today downgraded the U.S. Government's long-term investment rating to AA-plus, a demotion from the typical AAA status. The full report can be downloaded on the S&P Web site. President Obama has defended the government. Courtney, a 2nd District Democrat and a Vernon resident, echoed the President's sentiments in a statement released today. “As I stated on the floor of the House of Representatives two weeks ago, a comprehensive package of deficit reduction was needed to avoid...

I received several stories from several Tea Party people in Connecticut who saw Out of state Massachusetts Union members attending a Woodstock Connecticut town hall meeting with Democrat Joe Courtney. The stories with video are below

Time to Freep two Democrats who voted for Health Care, Stimulus, and the destruction of our nation. Details below

AUBURN, Ala. — An Auburn University student was murdered Tuesday night near campus. The victim, identified by Auburn police as 18-year-old Lauren A. Burk of Marietta, Ga., was shot to death. She was a freshman pledge with the school's Delta Gamma sorority, sources told FOX News.

DEDHAM, Mass. -- The man who stabbed his own lawyer at his rape trial earlier this week returned to court Thursday under heavy security, where he aggressively asked the attorney: "You still breathing?" Lawyer John Courtney has withdrawn from the trial of Che Sosa, who allegedly stabbed him with a sharp, makeshift weapon made out of plexi-glass Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Charles Grabau also excused himself from the case because he witnessed the attack.

(Washington-WTNH, Nov. 14, 2006 11:15 PM) _ As the re-count wraps up in Connecticut Joe Courtney is in Washington where new members of Congress are participating in freshman orientation. Courtney declared himself the winner last week and has been preparing for his new post ever since. Congressman elect Joe Courtney got the word that he had won the re-count late Tuesday night from his new boss. Later he got bear hugs from Congressman John Larson and Congresswoman Rosa Delauro outside the Capitol, just a short time earlier during a reception and dinner for the new Congress at the U.S. Capitol...

(Lebanon-AP, Nov. 13, 2006 12:25 PM) _ A town election official says a recount has discovered an error that gave Democrat Joe Courtney an extra 100 votes in the 2nd Congressional District. More details to come >>> (Hartford-AP, Nov. 13, 2006 6:12 AM) _ 32 more towns are expected to complete their re-counts today in the 2nd Congressional District. Chaplin was the only town to hold a re-count yesterday, and there was no change in the town's original vote tally. That leaves Democrat Joe Courtney with a 166-vote lead over incumbent Republican Rob Simmons. Courtney has declared himself the winner...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons picked up a single vote after the first town in the 2nd Congressional District recounted its election results on Thursday. But the three-term congressman still trails Democrat Joe Courtney by 166 votes. A recount, or re-canvass, was held in Hebron on Thursday night. Recounts were being scheduled in the remaining 64 cities and towns for Friday and over the weekend. Courtney has already declared victory, but Republicans remained hopeful Simmons would prevail. "As we have stressed during this entire election, we are determined to ensure a fair and accurate vote, and this...

Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest act's of patriotism I have ever seen. Moving thru the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camo's, as they began heading to their gate everyone (well almost everyone) was abruptly to their feet with their hands waving and cheering. When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and cheered for it hit me. I'm not...

Papal Nuncio Shot and Killed in Burundi VATICAN CITY - The Vatican 's nuncio, or ambassador, in Burundi was shot and killed, the Vatican said Monday. Monsignor Michael Courtney, 58, died while undergoing surgery, the Vatican's Misna missionary news agency said. A Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the Irish-born prelate's death but would offer no further details until the nuncio's family had been informed. Further details were not immediately available.

Courtney's Complex Degenerate rocker Courtney Love is only a few rungs away from rock bottom. She's allegedly millions of dollars in debt, she's facing charges of drug possession and disorderly conduct, her new album has tanked, she allegedly hit a fan in the head with a microphone stand during a concert, and she lost custody of her daughter. But never worry, it's not her fault, she tells Rolling Stone. And why exactly is that? "I believe it's trickledown from Bush," she said. "Did I bring it on myself?" she asks, "I don't think so. The last thing I want to...

Though Courtney Love's supposedly enrolled in a live-in rehab facility, the singer stepped out on Thursday night for some L.A. club-hopping, even popping up onstage to play with a local band. Eyewitnesses place Love at two shows less than a mile from each other in the heart of Los Feliz, near Los Angeles' Silver Lake hipster district. From the description of her interaction with clubgoers, it would seem Love went to Tangiers specifically to see power-rock trio the Hard Place, described in an LA Weekly club pick as having the same breathless impact as Nirvana did at Jabberjaw in the...

Courtney Love has been arrested as she landed on a transatlantic flight at Heathrow airport. Virgin Atlantic says Love was "verbally abusive" to cabin crew during the flight from Los Angeles. Police were called and were waiting for the flight to land. She was travelling in Virgin's Upper Class cabin when she allegedly became disruptive and the captain called police during the flight, confirms an airline spokeswoman. Love was on flight VS8, which landed at Heathrow at 11am. "She was verbally abusive towards our cabin crew and disruptive," a Virgin Atlantic spokeswoman said. The star has long had a reputation...

Courtney gaining on Simmons (Storrs-AP, Nov. 3, 2002 6:50 PM) _ A new University of Connecticut poll shows that Rob Simmons' lead over Joe Courtney in the Second Congressional District is down to five percentage points. UConn's Center for Survey Research and Analysis says Simmons -- the incumbent Republican -- holds a 46 percent to 41 percent lead among likely voters over Courtney, the Democratic challenger. Thirteen percent of voters are undecided. Simmons' five-point lead is equal to the poll's margin of error. Simmons held a 22-point lead two months ago. Back then, Simmons led 46 percent to 24 percent,...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Democrat challenger Joe Courtney has cut the lead of Republican U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons in the 2nd District congressional race from 22 percentage points among likely voters to 12 percentage points, according to a University of Connecticut poll released Thursday. Forty-seven percent of likely voters polled by the school's Center for Survey Research and Analysis said they will vote for Simmons. Thirty-five percent of likely voters said they will vote for Courtney. Eighteen percent were undecided.

Simmons, Johnson lead polls Associated Press October 13, 2002 HARTFORD — U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, a Republican, holds a 7-point lead over Democratic Rep. James Maloney in the new 5th District, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Rockville, Md.-based Research 2000, found that 45 percent of respondents planned to vote for Johnson, while 38 percent said they'd cast their ballots for Maloney, and 17 percent were undecided. The margin of error was about 4 percentage points. The poll, commissioned by The Day of New London, the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, and the Waterbury Republican-American, surveyed 604 likely...