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next up, an airline will introduce a fee to insure one's bags are not moved.

just a matter of time i suppose for someone to think of this. fortunately, the spotlight is on the airport workers due to frequency of this.

tbone - see what happens when you don't fling poo?

This is wild. A jury just convicted Violetta Mailyan, 45, of Glendale, California, in what the feds are calling the largest Botox fraud scheme in U.S. history. The woman raked in over $24 million from Medicare in just four years for "treating" chronic migraines with Botox injections. From the FBI in Los Angeles via X: In what is considered the largest #Botox fraud scheme in the United States, a jury in Los Angeles convicted a California doctor on Tuesday in a $45 million scheme to defraud #Medicare by submitting claims for Botox injections that were never provided and medically unnecessary, and for obstructing the investigation by manipulating and altering medical records in an attempt to mislead criminal investigators. Violetta Mailyan, 45, of Glendale, owned and operated a clinic that purported to provide beauty and cosmetic services. Although Medicare reimburses medical providers for Botox injections when necessary to treat documented cases of chronic migraines, Mailyan billed and received payments for thousands of injections that were never provided or were provided only for cosmetic purposes or for patients whose primary care physicians had not referred them for treatment of chronic migraines. Evidence at trial showed that Mailyan billed for providing injections when she was actually on vacation in Mexico, Hawaii, and within the United States, and when her clinic was closed. Evidence also showed that Mailyan injected a Medicare beneficiary who was incarcerated in federal prison at the time. more at https://notthebee.com/article/california-doc-whose-spending-sprees-included-400-year-old-crossbow-charged-with-stealing-45m-in-botox-fraud-scheme?from_social=twitter

Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock apologized in court as she was sentenced to more than 41 1/2 years and ordered to pay nearly $243 million in restitution at Thursday's sentencing. “It was never my goal to do this,” Bock told the court, with the prosecutors portraying her as the ringleader and “mastermind” of a massive pandemic-era fraud scheme involving federal child nutrition funds. “I failed to protect people. I really believed in the work I was doing. Now I see how wrong that was. I’m sorry to the public. I’m sorry to the court. Sorry to my family, sorry to my children. I never intended for this to go the way that it went. Prosecutors also said Bock accepted bribes and kickbacks, controlled proceeds from the scheme, handled claims, distributed money and signed checks — some worth tens of thousands of dollars and others worth millions. more at https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/doj-minnesota-fraud-announcement-feeding-our-future-sentencing-may-21

"Today, we are announcing we have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers, and that’s just among the top 25 OPT employers. This is only the tip of the iceberg," he said." sounds like a way to launder money........

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items not mentioned are microplastics and declining sperm rates - both of which are probably connected and a major part of this too.

magazine clips.............jeesh

anything could have a bug in it.

meanwhile, there's job opportunities in california for simians.............

in short, biometrics is now a risk.

The peace sign selfie has been a fixture of social media since basically the beginning of social media. Billions of photos, same gesture, nobody thinks twice about it. That might need to change. Security researchers say the ‘V’ hand gesture, index and middle fingers pointed at the camera, can give scammers enough fingerprint detail to reconstruct biometric data. And they’re not speaking theoretically. Financial expert Li Chang demonstrated the whole thing on a Chinese workplace reality show in April, using a celebrity’s selfie to show how much fingerprint information is sitting right there in a standard peace sign photo. Oddity Central reported on his findings, which were pretty darn uncomfortable. At close range, under 1.5 meters, there’s a very high probability of fully extracting fingerprint information from a single image. At distances up to 3 meters, about half of a person’s fingerprint data can still be recovered. That’s where AI comes in, and it’s what makes this more than a theoretical concern. This warning has been circulating since at least 2017, and cameras have only gotten better since. more at https://www.vice.com/en/article/your-peace-sign-selfie-might-be-giving-scammers-your-fingerprints/

Sukhwinder Sidhu has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for killing Olympian Alexandra Paul and injuring four others, including her 10-month-old son. He was behind the wheel of his transport truck for more than 16 hours when he crashed into several cars in a construction zone nearly three years ago in Melancthon Township, a small, rural southern Ontario community. Sidhu pleaded guilty just days ahead of his trial in February to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the horrific crash along County Road 124 on Aug. 22, 2023. The court heard he was working for 26 hours, including driving for almost 16 hours straight before barrelling into Paul’s car, sending it crashing into a ditch while her little boy screamed. Paul was an Olympic figure skater from Midhurst, Ont., just 90 minutes north of Toronto. Her husband, Mitch Islam, who she skated alongside, described the life-shattering consequences of Sidhu’s actions. “The family I dreamed of will never be whole,” Islam said, telling the court of losing his wife and the mother of his little boy before he took his first steps or celebrated his first birthday. Islam described marrying the girl of his dreams, ”as partners on and off the ice for more than 12 years, calling their bond ‘unbreakable,’“ reliving the moment he found out his wife has died on her way home from the family cottage that day. Their son, who was pulled out of the wreck by Sidhu, was taken to SickKids Hospital with a broken leg. more at https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/transport-truck-driver-sentenced-in-horrific-crash-that-killed-olympian-young-mother/