BREAKING:
Hartford
Courant is reporting that in Connecticut “About 3,900 customers were told that
they qualified for government-funded Medicaid coverage when, in fact, they did
not”. Were you affected?
Read the complete article at
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Access Health CT To Contact Thousands About 'System Error' Affecting Tax
Credits
By MATTHEW STURDEVANT, msturdevant@courant.com The Hartford
Courant 6:43 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2014
Access Health
CT says it will start calling thousands of
customers Friday to tell them that they were assigned an incorrect tax credit,
creating problems with their medical coverage.
Continue reading at ….. http://www.courant.com/business/hc-access-health-ct-dropped-customers-20140710,0,2651392.story
July 11, 2014
From: The Federation of
Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website:
http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone:
860-841-8032
A new study published in the
British Medical Journal (BMJ) reveals
Corruption,
fraud and bureaucracy cost US healthcare system up to $272 billion annually, as
Access Health CT CEO Kevin Counihan has now revealed that
5,700 Dropped From ACA Plans In Connecticut
Although Counihan
wrote
in a June 18 letter to Senator Fasano and
House Minority Leader Lawrence
Cafero “I appreciate your raising this issue to us as
we have as yet to receive no such complaints of this sort”. Read more on this issue at http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/5700_dropped_from_aca_plans_in_connecticut/
In a Forbes Editorial Merrill Matthews wrote
Government Programs Have Become
One Big Scammer ... Fraud Fest
The feds themselves put
Medicare and Medicaid fraud at approaching 10 percent of
the programs’ budgets, or about $100 billion a year for the two programs.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2014/01/13/government-programs-have-become-one-big-scammer-fraud-fest/2/
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US Judge Orders IRS to Explain
Lost Emails
Wall Street Journal - By JOHN
D. MCKINNON July 10, 2014 2:10 p.m. ET
Magistrate Judge Named to
Seek Other Sources for Missing Documents
WASHINGTON—A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Internal Revenue
Service to explain how it lost two years' worth of a former official's emails,
and tapped a magistrate judge to find out whether the documents can be obtained
from other sources.
At a hearing in a conservative group's lawsuit, U.S. District
Judge Emmet Sullivan gave the IRS until Aug. 10 to provide a sworn declaration
explaining how the email loss occurred. The IRS previously has said that the
emails were lost because the top agency official's computer crashed in 2011,
and backup tapes were routinely reused after six months. http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-judge-orders-irs-to-explain-lost-emails-1405015820
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Five plaintiffs sue after
being targeted in US 'suspicious activity' database
Spencer
Ackerman in New York, theguardian.com, Thursday 10 July 2014
Excerpts from article:
Suspicious activity reports – over 35,000 of which have been generated as of 2013, according to the
government – go from their locations into terrorism databases like the FBI's eGuardian. There, they are visible not only to federal
agents but to state and local police around the country through the Department
of Homeland Security's controversial fusion centers. Reports on people like Prigoff reside there for up to 30 years.
Generating them requires observers to have neither probable
cause nor reasonable suspicion of criminal activity – merely the law
enforcement equivalent of the "see something, say something"
vigilance mantra post-9/11. Read entire article at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/civil-liberties-groups-lawsuit-suspicious-activity-database#start-of-comments
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As Rowland
Loses Effort To Dismiss Indictment “charging him with conspiracy, obstruction and other crimes
for trying to set himself up as a secret consultant to congressional
campaigns” the Hartford Courant is
reporting that it is alleged by Prosecutors: Rowland Used Radio Show For Political Gain noting that “they intend
to tell a jury that when former Gov. John G.
Rowland sold his political
consulting services, he was secretly selling the muscle behind his long-running
political talk show on WTIC-AM radio”.
The Hartford Courant further reports that “The witness who the
government said can make its case is Andrew Roraback, a
former state representative and state senator from northwest Connecticut, who
now is a Superior Court judge. “Roraback, if allowed
to testify, is expected to say that he wound up in Rowland's crosshairs because
he was one of the candidates competing against Wilson-Foley in the 5th
Congressional District Republican primary in 2011 and 2012.”