Bankrupt Steward Health Care has put all of its 31 U.S. hospitals up for sale, hoping to finalize transactions by the end of the summer to address its $9 billion in total liabilities, its attorneys said at a Tuesday court hearing in Houston....
… officials in that state have criticized Steward’s management and its former private equity owners for making short-sighted financial decisions that undermined patients’ care. Massachusetts officials in particular criticized a series of transactions that sold off the company’s real estate and saddled it with long-term rent costs at its hospitals.
There should be a law banning private equity firms from owning hospitals or LTC homes, because all those firms do is strip them of their assets and raze them to the ground.
The risk assessments border officers have used for years to decide whether vessels entering Canadian waters should be searched have been based on outdated and inaccurate data, increasing the risk of high-risk goods and inadmissible people slipping into the country, a recently released audit says....
Polish security agents have discovered bugging devices in a room where ministers were due to meet on Tuesday, authorities said, without revealing who might have placed them there....
Later that month, LaCombe “contrived another opportunity to meet” and picked the victim up in his own car, without initially telling her where they were going, and brought her to a hotel, Paquette said.
He kidnapped her and took her to a hotel room.
In the room, he handed her a dress he bought from Value Village, and she went into the washroom but didn’t change into it, the defence said. When she emerged, LaCombe picked her up without her consent, pulled her on top of him, took off her top and bra and kissed her.
Then he wants her to dress up for him AGAINST HER WILL.
The point of this thread is that a cop got off charges with a slap on the wrist. It is not, and never was, about what he did as much as he faces exactly zero consequences.
Bankrupt Steward Health puts its hospitals up for sale, discloses $9 bln in debt (www.reuters.com)
Bankrupt Steward Health Care has put all of its 31 U.S. hospitals up for sale, hoping to finalize transactions by the end of the summer to address its $9 billion in total liabilities, its attorneys said at a Tuesday court hearing in Houston....
Border officers relied on outdated intel to decide whether to search incoming vessels, audit warns (www.cbc.ca)
The risk assessments border officers have used for years to decide whether vessels entering Canadian waters should be searched have been based on outdated and inaccurate data, increasing the risk of high-risk goods and inadmissible people slipping into the country, a recently released audit says....
Bugging devices found in Polish government meeting room (www.reuters.com)
Polish security agents have discovered bugging devices in a room where ministers were due to meet on Tuesday, authorities said, without revealing who might have placed them there....
Credit Card Delinquency Rates Are At Highest Level Since 2012 (www.forbes.com)
No jail time for Hamilton police officer who sexually assaulted woman he was mentoring, judge rules (www.cbc.ca)
A former Hamilton police officer will not go to jail for sexually assaulting the woman he was mentoring as she pursued her own career in policing....