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BOSTON — A former co-owner of a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts amid a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that has killed more than a hundred patients has been sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud the federal government.
Gregory Conigliaro, 57, as vice president and general manager of the New England Compounding Center, was the company’s number one point of contact with federal and state regulators, federal prosecutors said after the sentencing Thursday.
He and other corporate officials lied to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. He said the U. S. Department of Pharmacy Registration Board of Massachusetts when it said corporations dispensed drugs for specific patient prescriptions.
MOSCOW (AP) — Former U. S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled indictment after leaking information about classified surveillance programs, has been given a Russian passport and taken the oath of citizenship, Russian news agencies reported Friday.
Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena reportedly said Snowden received the passport and was sworn in on Thursday, about three months after Russian President Vladimir Putin granted him citizenship.
The reports do not specify whether Snowden renounced his U. S. citizenship. The United States revoked his passport in 2013, causing Snowden to be blocked at a Moscow airport for weeks after arriving from Hong Kong, in an effort to succeed in Ecuador.
Russia granted him permanent residency.
Snowden says he made the classified revelations because he thought the U. S. intelligence network was not going to be classified because he thought the U. S. intelligence network was going to be classified in the case. The U. S. had also gone and violated civil liberties.
ARIZONA: Cochise County in rural Arizona on Thursday rated the effects of its midterm elections following orders from a ruling on who governed that Republican supervisors broke the law by refusing to flag vote counting by this week’s deadline. They stated that they were not convinced that the machines used to compile ballots were highly qualified for use in elections; State and federal election officials have said yes.
CHINA: More Chinese cities relaxed antivirus restrictions and police patrolled streets Thursday as the government tried to calm public anger over some of the world’s toughest COVID-19 measures and prevent further protests.
JEOTZ ASSOCIATE: Joel Greenberg, a former tax collector from Seminole County, Florida, whose arrest led to a federal investigation into the U. S. representative. U. S. Matt Gaetz, sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors and other crimes. play a role in an investigation into his friend Gaetz into whether he paid a 17-year-old woman for sex.
THREATENING LETTER: Travis Ball of Barnesville, Georgia, was sentenced this week to serve about 3 years in federal prison for sending a letter threatening to kill President Joe Biden and blow up the White House, prosecutors said Thursday.
AUDITS: A surveillance investigation opened after the tax returns of two former FBI administrators were subjected to extensive audits under Trump’s direction concluded Thursday that reviews from those years were conducted randomly.
HAWAII: Rivers of glowing lava oozing from the world’s largest volcano won’t be able to succeed on the main highway connecting Hawaii’s east and west coasts for at least a week, an official said Thursday. The lava “has slowed down considerably” as it was successful on flat ground, Ken Hon, a rate scientist at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, said at a news conference.
WAR IN UKRAINE | RUSSIAN OIL
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Group of Seven Nations and Australia joined the European Union Friday in adopting a $60-a-barrel cap on Russian oil, a key step as Western sanctions aim to modernize the global oil market to prevent surge in value and starve the president. Vladimir Putin financing his war in Ukraine.
Europe will set the discounted value that other nations would pay until Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and an insurance ban on those materials takes effect. It aims to prevent a sudden loss of Russian oil globally that could lead to a further increase in energy prices and additional fuel inflation.
U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the deal will help limit Putin’s “main source of profit for his illegal war in Ukraine while preserving the stability of global energy supplies. “
The deal comes after a wave of last-minute negotiations. Poland has long been behind in a deal with the EU, which seeks to set the ceiling as low as possible. After more than 24 hours of deliberations, while other EU countries had signaled they would. The agreement, Warsaw nevertheless gave way on Friday night.
A joint G7 coalition statement released Friday said the organization is “ready to review and adjust the maximum value as appropriate,” taking into account market developments and potential effects on coalition members and low- and middle-income countries.
“Cripple Russia’s energy revenues is the center of preventing the Russian war machine,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said. He said every dollar the cap reduced $2 billion less for Russia’s war chest.
“It’s no secret that we were looking for the price to be lower,” Kallas added. “A value between $30 and $40 is what would particularly hurt Russia. However, it is the compromise we can achieve. “
The $60 figure puts the cap close to the current value of Russian crude, which recently fell below $60 a barrel. Some criticize this as low enough to cut one of Russia’s main revenue resources. That’s still a big reduction for foreign Brent. The benchmark index, which fell to $85. 48 a barrel on Friday.
U. S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirthrough told reporters Friday that “the cap itself will have the desired effect by restraining Putin from profiting from oil sales and restricting his ability to continue with this cash to fund his war machine. “
PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — America’s latest nuclear stealth bomber debuted Friday after years of covert progress and as part of the Pentagon’s reaction to growing concerns about a long-term standoff with China.
The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every facet of the program is classified.
As night fell on the Air Force’s 42nd Floor in Palmdale, the public was able to see the Raider for the first time in a tightly controlled ceremony. It began with a review of the 3 bombers still in service: the B-52 Stratofortress, the B-1 Lancer and the B-2 Spirit. Then, the hangar doors slowly opened and the B-21 partially exited the building.
“It’s not just an airplane,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. “This is the embodiment of America’s determination to protect the republic we all love. “
The B-21 is a component of the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize the 3-legged nuclear triad, which includes silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads, as it moves from counterterrorism campaigns of recent decades to modernizing China’s military.
China is on track to have 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035, and its achievements in hypersonics, cyber warfare and functions provide “the systemic and most significant challenge to U. S. national security. “”The U. S. and the flexible and open foreign system,” the Pentagon said this week in its annual report on China.
Six Raiders are in production. The Air Force plans to build a hundred that can deploy nuclear weapons or traditional bombs and that can be used with or without a human crew. The Air Force and Northrop also point to the Raider’s immediate progression: the bomber went from contract award to debut. in seven years.
The bombers’ accusation is unknown. The Air Force had previously priced it at an average charge of $550 million each in 2010 dollars, about $753 million today, but it’s unclear how much is spent. The total will depend on the number of bombers purchased through the Pentagon.
The B-2 will also be a fleet of more than a hundred aircraft, but the Air Force built only 21 due to overload and a replaced safety environment after the fall of the Soviet Union. Less than that are fit to fly. a given day due to the significant wishes for maintenance of the old bomber.
Infowars host Alex Jones filed for non-public bankruptcy Friday in Texas, bringing up debts that come with nearly $1. 5 billion he ordered paid to families who sued him over his conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Jones registered for Chapter bankruptcy coverage in Houston. Its record lists $1 billion to $10 billion in liabilities and $1 billion to $10 million in assets.
Jones declared the presentation of his Infowars show, saying the case would end in bankruptcy and asking the audience to search his website.
“Officially I don’t have cash anymore, personally,” Jones said. “Everything will be classified. Everything will be made public. And look, Alex Jones has almost no cash. “
Jones, who sells nutritional supplements and other pieces on his Infowars and promotes them on his shows, said he would not comment further.
For years, Jones described the 2012 bloodbath as a hoax. In October, a Connecticut jury awarded the victims’ families $965 million in compensatory damages, and a ruling it later issued added another $473 million in punitive damages. Earlier this year, a Texas jury awarded the parents of a child killed in the shooting $49 million in damages.
The bankruptcy filing halted all proceedings in the Connecticut case.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said Friday that the West demanded it withdraw permanently from Ukraine as part of any long-term talks to end the war, and ruled out such talks as Russian moves mount. They were proceeding and that a Ukrainian official estimated his country’s combat losses at up to 13,000 troops.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to talks, that the Western call for Moscow to first withdraw its troops from Ukraine is unacceptable.
Peskov’s comments came as Putin spoke by phone Friday morning with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz’s office said he had made it clear to Putin “that there will have to be a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, which includes the withdrawal of Russian troops. “”
On Thursday, U. S. President Joe Biden also indicated he would be willing to talk to Putin if he shows he is serious about ending the invasion and fleeing Ukraine.
A statement issued by the Kremlin after the phone call with Scholz said Putin blamed the West for encouraging Ukraine to prolong the war by supplying weapons.
Putin also said Russia’s crippling moves in Ukrainian infrastructure were “forced and inevitable” after Ukraine allegedly bombed a key bridge to the Crimean peninsula.
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