| News Tipoffs - Connecticut Editors Newsletter for Wednesday January 08, 2025 ( 9 items ) |
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Conn. A.G. Tong Announces $608,296 False Claims Settlement With Dentist Over Prohibited Patient Recruiting Fees
HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025:
Attorney General William Tong and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut Vanessa Roberts Avery today announced a $608,296 settlement agreement with Lakshmi Bethi, DMD ("Bethi") and her business entities, New Haven Family Dental LLC, New Haven Family Dental Group LLC; and New Haven Dental LLC and, resolving allegations that they violated state and federal
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Conn. A.G. Tong Announces States, Justice Department Sue Six Large Landlords for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme That Harms Millions of American Renters
HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025:
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Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents
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Attorney General William Tong today joined the U.S. Department of Justice and nine other states filing an amended complaint in its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, suin
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EMSL Selects 15 Projects for Exploratory Research in 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news:
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Research teams will have access to EMSL instruments and resources for nine months
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Fifteen researchers from across the world were selected by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) to conduct nine-month Exploratory Research projects in 2025.
The call sought proposals that address at least one of EMSL's three scientific fo
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Justice Department Sues 6 Large Landlords for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme That Harms Millions of American Renters
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025:
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Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents
Attorneys General of Illinois and Massachusetts Join Suit Against RealPage and Apartment Landlords, Bringing Total State and Commonwealth Co-Plaintiffs to 10
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The Justice Department, together w
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Justice Department Sues Six Large Landlords for Algorithmic Pricing Scheme That Harms Millions of American Renters
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Jan. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina issued the following news release:
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Landlord Cortland Agrees to Cooperate with Justice Department and Enter into a Settlement to End the Use of Common Rental Pricing Algorithms and Competitively Sensitive Data to Set Rents
Attorneys General of Illinois and Massachusetts Join Suit Against RealPage and Apartment Landlords, Bringing Total State and Commonwealth Co-Plaintiffs to 10
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Mass. A.G. Campbell Joins Justice Department in Suing RealPage, Large Landlords, for Anticompetitive Algorithmic Pricing Scheme That Harms Renters
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 8 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025:
The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office has joined the Justice Department in filing an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage and five of the nation's largest landlords for participating in algorithmic pricing and other schemes that harm renters. In August 2024, an initial complaint was filed against RealPage for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among
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The Biden-Harris Administration Awards 14 States and Washington, D.C. with CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration Planning Grants for Expanding Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release:
Note to editors and reporters: Video b-roll of a CCBHC (4 minutes, 41 seconds)opens in a new tab and an explainer video "What is a CCBHC? (50 seconds) , external link opens in a new tab" are available for download and use in reporting, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the U.
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White House Fact Sheet: President Biden Establishes Chuckwalla and Sattitla Highlands National Monuments in California
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Jan. 7, 2025:
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President Biden Establishes Chuckwalla and Sattitla Highlands National Monuments in California
President Biden has now conserved more lands and waters than any President in history and has created the largest corridor of protected lands in the lower 48 states, the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor
Surrounded by canyon walls in the Eastern Coachella Valley, today President Biden will sign
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White House Fact Sheet: VP Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt From All Credit Reports
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Jan. 7, 2025:
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Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports
Today's final rule will remove $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of 15 million Americans. In addition, the Vice President is announcing that States and Localities have already Eliminated Over $1 Billion in Medical Debt Thanks to Biden-Harris Administration Support
Today, Vice P
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