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The Brief: * Two men from Philadelphia are accused of traveling to Minnesota to take advantage of "easy money" through the state’s Medicaid programs. * The FOX 9 Investigators confirmed both men will plead guilty during plea hearings scheduled for next month. * Authorities allege the pair’s scheme involved $3.5 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing. Federal prosecutors charged Anthony Jefferson and Lester Brown, both from Philadelphia, with exploiting the state’s social service programs to line their own pockets. At the time they were charged in December, Joe Thompson, First Assistant U.S. Attorney, stated, "These defendants came here not to enjoy...

A daycare facility allegedly involved in Minnesota's ongoing fraud scandal has hit back at criticism over a misspelled sign as staff reportedly 'truck in' children. The Quality 'Learing' Center in Minneapolis was thrust into the spotlight last week after Nick Shirley shared footage of the facility apparently devoid of children despite receiving millions of dollars in funding. When video emerged of the childcare facility, eagle-eyed critics also noted the sign above the door misspelled the word 'learning.' On Monday, the New York Post observed staff 'trucking in' dozens of children, despite locals admitting they thought the facility had been 'permanently...

Stuff like this is why the American people have absolutely no faith in their institutions. I can see why Make America Healthy Again was such a popular movement. The U.S. health plan before RFK: Step 1: Feed Americans unhealthy food with questionable ingredients. Step 2: Encourage sloth and gluttony on a popular level. Step 3: Big Pharma creates a "cure" for obesity. Step 4: Taxpayers money goes to pay for this miracle cure. Step 5: Big pharma profits. Do I have that right? Am I overreacting to this? The same folks in the Biden administration who are calling RFK Jr....

FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas didn't show up or offer testimony at an annual Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing that took place Thursday.Their absence marked the first time in 15 years that both heads have not attended the annual hearing, according to the committee's chairman, Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich."Their choice to not provide public testimony about their departments' efforts to address wide-ranging national security threats robs the American people of critical information and the opportunity for public accountability of what the federal government is doing...SNIP

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has spent more than one billion dollars on services for illegal immigrants over the past year, now has insufficient funds to last through the hurricane season.

ACOUSTIC HAILING DEVICE IROS General Information Document Type: PRESOL Posted Date: Jul 27, 2004 Category: Communication, Detection and Coherent Radiation Equipment Set Aside: N/A Contracting Office Address N00164 300 Highway 361, Building 64 Crane, IN Description The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division requires Acoustic Hailing Devices meeting the requirements of the Integrated Radar Optical Surveillance and Sighting System (IROS3). Delivery of eight units FOB Destination NSWC-Crane required 60 days from award date of contract with subsequent deliveries 10 units every 60 days until order is complete. Preliminary inspection will occur at source by a Government QAR and final inspection...

The heightened security alert in the United States is not related to the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, coalition administrator Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III said here today. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced the change in the national threat level of terrorist attack from elevated (code yellow) to high (code orange) Dec 21. The decision, Ridge said in a prepared statement, was based on "a substantial increase in the volume of threat-related intelligence reports" from the intelligence community. He said, "These credible sources suggest the possibility of attacks against the homeland around the holiday season and beyond."...

Rarely is an invention so unique and so simple that in 15 seconds most people who experience it realize it could alter everyday life. But that's what happens to just about anyone who steps out to the back parking lot of American Technology Corp. (ATC) in San Diego for a demonstration of its invention called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). Essentially, HSS does for sound what the laser did for light — intensely focuses and channels it so it can travel great distances without dispersing. In the usual HSS demo, a technician points a cereal box-size speaker at someone standing on the...