Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, October 13th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, October 13th, 2019 was:
DARLENE WHYTE
Mokena, IL
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing entries 10/7/19 thru 10/13/19 are:
10/7/19
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Brittany Doerfler
Melissa Barnes Walker
Darlene Whyte
Christy Hawkes
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Eleazar Ruiz
Kim Avery
Nikki Hunsaker
Brittany Light
Mark Thompson
Kayla Hernandez
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Jennifer Lang
Emily Rice Bowersock
Shelley Ann Peoples
June Rivera
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Alana Dimambro
Debbie Gremlin
10/8/19
Rhonda Grisham
Jill Nagel
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Tearsa K Keith
Lenis Abshire
Kendra George
Wendi Black
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Paula Gillespie
Be Schwerin
Mya Murphy
Jennifer Lang
Amber McGrath
Rosanne Clark
Jennifer Ramlet
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Lisa A Mazola
Janice McKay Donahue
10/09/19
Emily Rice Bowersock
Phylicia Phillips
Melissa White
Allison Giffune Paige
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jill Nauyokas
Diane Hamric
Nicole Blaha
Pam Johnson Rowland
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Linda Godin
Laure Ondoua
Holly Cajigas
Be Schwerin
Adaria Johnson
Trish Hysell
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Jennifer Ramlet
Tricia Dix
Pamela White Brearley
10/10/19
Emily Rice Bowersock
Nicole Blaha
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Alicia Dansby
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Christy Hawkes
Brittany Light
Jennifer Leffler
Trish Musgrave
Gricelda Castro
Melinda Poullion
Meg Marshall
Pamela Gonzalez
Jennifer Ramlet
Andrew W Sauer
Lisa Puckett
Jillian Dollarhide
Katrina Jordan-Worford
Jill Nauyokas
Derelys Peterson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
10/11/19
Rhonda Grisham
Nicole Blaha
Alisa Jones
MarcyLynn Coull
Paula Johnson
Nikki Hunsaker
Chrissy Kim
Karen Brunet Moore
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jamie Aderhold
Jakara Jaxn
Meg Marshall
Amanda Rosario
Amber McGrath
Shannon Rush
Trish Marks
B M Armstrong
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Marilyn Wall
Aarti DM
10/12/19
Sherri Kidwell
Stephanie Beckwith
Eleazar Ruiz
Deidra Dees
Martha Prescott
Elizabeth Gordon
Melinda Poullion
Lindsey Adkins
Tearsa K Keith
Jennifer Ramlet
Kevin Cusack
Jerry Clapper
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tina David Konegan
Rosanne Clark
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Penny Fisher
Alexis Maureen
Marisela Zuniga
Misty Dawn Moores
10/13/19
Jennifer Ramlet
Emily Rice Bowersock
Erica Hansen
Sherry Lilly
Jennifer Vega
Kim Avery
Sara Muck
Eleazar Ruiz
Jenifer Garza
Joanna Hacker
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Mya Murphy
Dale Fish
Nicole Blaha
Rhonda Grisham
Andrew W Sauer
Nai Merri
Paula Rivers
Nikki Bankert
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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In Maryland, a self-described white nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant pleaded guilty to four federal weapons and drugs charges, after investigators uncovered his plot to kill high-profile liberal figures, including Democratic lawmakers, media personalities and judges. Fifty-year-old Christopher Hasson was arrested with a stockpile of 15 guns and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, after he used his work computer at the Coast Guard to read the manifestos of mass killers and to research sniper attacks.
Hasson worked as an acquisitions officer and was arrested at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington in February. Investigators said they found 15 firearms, two homemade silencers and more 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his Maryland home, as well as at least 100 pills of the painkiller Tramadol and more than 30 bottles of purported human growth hormone. Two of the four counts in Hasson’s indictment charged him with illegally possessing unregistered and unserialized silencers. He also was charged with possession of a firearm by an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance, and illegal possession of tramadol, an opioid painkiller.
Inspired by the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, Hasson spent hours researching the tactics of domestic terrorists, prosecutors said. “I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth,” he wrote on his computer, saying he would “have to take serious look at appropriate individual targets, to bring the greatest impact.” Among the targets on a list found on Hasson’s computer were Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes and Democratic Senator Kamala Harris. Hasson also targeted two Supreme Court justices and two social media company executives and searched online for their home addresses in March 2018, within minutes of searching firearm sales websites, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors wrote that the former Marine considered them “traitors.”
In a 2017 letter he sent to himself as a draft and apparently wrote to a neo-Nazi leader, Hasson identified himself as a white nationalist for over 30 years and “advocated for ‘focused violence’ in order to establish a white homeland,” prosecutors said. He researched how to make homemade bombs and mortars, studied sniper training and used his government computer to search for information about Nazis and Adolf Hitler, prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors did not file terrorism charges against Hasson. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Windom indicated the government may seek the maximum sentence of up to 31 years in prison at the sentencing hearing scheduled for January 31, 2020. Hasson’s attorney, Elizabeth Oyer, said she intends to seek a 3.5-year sentence for her client. Oyer said Hasson “was not plotting a terrorist attack or any of the abhorrent acts that the prosecution has repeatedly speculated about but never actually charged. Mr. Hasson never meant any harm to anyone. He deeply regrets the pain and embarrassment that he has caused his family and the U.S. Coast Guard”. Oyer has said prosecutors found no evidence to back up terrorism allegations. She accused them of seeking to punish Hasson for “private thoughts” he never shared.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, October 6th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, October 6th, 2019 was:
MEGAN RHYNE
Three Oaks, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The Trivia drawing entries 9/30/19 thru 10/6/19 are:
9/30/19
Christy Hawkes
Paula Gillespie
Connie Lynn Merritt
June Rivera
Vinessa Vasquez
Angela Janisse
Jenifer Garza
Stephanie Beckwith
Sarah Harrison
Derek Jennings
Esther Harrell Tartaglia
Becky Holland
Holly Cajigas
Angel Shearl
Rhonda Grisham
Megan Rhyne
Karen Brunet Moore
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jo Bhagavathula
Jennifer Ramlet
Adaria Johnson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Jill Nauyokas
Sherri Kidwell
10/1/19
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Nicole Blaha
Christina McKinnon
Brooke Scott
Sherri Kidwell
Elizabeth Gordon
Beth Epley Minton
Alicia Johnson
Alexis Maureen
Kristina Rosson
Marilyn Wall
Tera Lee Culverwell
Dean Bruss
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Meg Marshall
Steph Lesliebonton
Lena Perry
Jenifer Garza
Connie Lynn Merritt
Dan Maloney
Sonali Jain Modi
10/2/19
Amanda Rosario
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Beth Epley Minton
Isis Sample
Donna Porter
Dawn Raasch
Brittany Deaver
Trish Musgrave
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Jane Peterson
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Janice McKay Donahue
Sherry Lilly
Tina Auth
Maggie Smith
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Karron Redfield
Rushell Tuggle
Stephanie Beckwith
Traci Anderson
Trish Hysell
10/3/19
Nikki Hunsaker
Lisa A Mazola
Brittany Doerfler
Christy Hawkes
Rhonda Grisham
Brittany Deaver
Teena Sierson
Lena Perry
Andrea Ayala
Amanda Rosario
Alana Dimambro
Christine McKinnon
Jennifer Leffler
Karen Brunet Moore
Nelle Bailey
Shelley Ann Peoples
Emily Rice Bowersock
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Althea Thomas
Jenifer Garza
10/4/19
Brooke Scott
Marilyn Wall
MarcyLynn Coull
Nai Merri
Kim Avery
Derelys Peterson
Barbara Austin
Rhonda Grisham
Brittany Deaver
Paula Gillespie
Beth Epley Minton
Ambreen Javed
Brandi K Chaney
Teena Sierson
Carole Jacobs
Thomas Ryan
Jane Peterson
Mya Murphy
Rosanne Clark
Stacy Nelson
Lisa Marie Ferraiolo Whitener
Carl Buddy Mizell
Sheila Carvell
10/5/19
Phylicia Phillips
Eleazar Ruiz
Jessica Steiner
Paula Johnson
Shannon Rush
Rhonda Grisham
April Ashcraft
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Bea Patrick
Dave Miller
Tracy Heyer
Nacole Patrick
Angela Janisse
Debbie Gremlin
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Rosanne Clark
Kim Avery
Amy L Sass
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Jennifer Ramlet
Jenifer Garza
10/6/19
Christy Hawkes
Phylicia Phillips
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Andrea Somers
Nicole Blaha
Amber Chandler
Karen Brunet Moore
Morgan Fam
Rhonda Grisham
Kristina Harris
Brittany Doerfler
Jill Nagel
Alicia Dansby
Elizabeth Wilson
MarcyLynn Coull
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Tracy Heyer
Dale Fish
Alexis Maureen
Eleazar Ruiz
Becky Hartman
Rosanne Clark
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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General Motors has told the UAW that it will continue to pay for health coverage for striking workers. GM told the union after it went on strike Sept. 16 at company sites nationwide that it was kicking health care costs to the union, a move that UAW leaders said blindsided them, even though they had anticipated picking up those costs at some point through the strike fund. GM stated they have chosen to work with their providers to keep all benefits fully in place for striking hourly employees, so they have no disruption to their medical care, including vision, prescription and dental coverage.
The strike is the UAW’s first since the Great Recession and GM’s federally induced bankruptcy in 2009. Experts say as the strike continues toward the end of its second week, it has left a lasting economic impact. Strike pay is $250 per week, but it won’t be distributed until the 15th day of picketing. The starting wage for temporary production workers at GM is $15.78 per hour, which is about $630 per 40-hour week. Top-paid production employees, however, earn $30.46 per hour, or about $1,218 per week.
The UAW says that temporary workers are union members doing the same work as permanent employees, but they get half the pay and far fewer benefits. The union wants those workers to get a path to being permanent and get pay and benefits that more closely match their permanent counterparts, even when they’re temporary. GM counters that employing temporary workers is good for permanent employees because they enable the full-time staff to take time off. Hiring temps also gives the company flexibility to scale up production for new models and combat employee absenteeism
The UAW is also fighting for the retention of a health insurance plan in which workers pay about 4% of the costs, an improved pension and assurances that GM — the maker of Buick, Cadillac, GMC and Chevrolet — will not close four plants in Maryland, Ohio and Michigan.
The strike has affected GM facilities in Ohio and Ontario not represented by the UAW. All told more than 3,200 GM workers represented by other unions have been laid off. On Monday, the automaker notified 525 employees at its DMax Ltd. engine plant in Moraine, Ohio, that they temporarily were laid off. GM suppliers, such as Magna International Inc. and Nexteer Automotive, also said they temporarily have had to lay off employees during the strike.
Analysts agree that the cost of the strike is mounting daily for both GM and striking workers, as well as for the broader community. Anderson Economic Group, an East Lansing-based consultant, said in a new analysis Thursday that GM probably has lost profits of $113 million so far, and is now losing money at the rate of $25 million a day. As talks continue toward a UAW-GM contract, negotiations have entered a new stage and moved to the main table. In recent days, talks have been confined to smaller committees as the two sides struggled to hammer out details.
Union leaders have argued that GM workers deserved a bigger slice of the company’s profits, which they say have totaled $35 billion in North America over the last three years. Union members are calling for fair wages, saying for every $1 a GM employee made, CEO Mary Barra made $281. As the strike enters its 3rd week, the national impact will continue until an agreement is reached.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 29th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, September 29th, 2019 was:
SUNNEY MICHELLE JOHNSON
Midland TX
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries for the past week were:
9/23/19
Kathleen Hickman
Erica Hansen
April Ashcraft
Tracy Heyer
Nikki Hunsaker
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Susan Clarke Jette
Brittany Light
Trish Hysell
Brooke Scott
Dave Miller
Holly D Lawson
Thomas Ryan Gan
Hayley Cordaro
Nacole Patrick
Jill Nauyokas
Derek Jennings
Emily Rice Bowersock
Christine McKinnon
Anna Nichols
Annette Broxton
9/24/19
Sheila Carvell
Trish Hysell
Becky VanGinkel
Derek Michelle Polk
Shannon Schleif
Paula M Bondy
Nelle Bailey
Nai Merri
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Jennifer Marie
Kim Floyd
Kimberly Snyder
Eleazar Ruiz
Be Schwerin
Dawn Raasch
Kathleen Hickman
Kim Avery
Jennifer Vega
Wendi Black
Carla Williams
9/25/19
Angela Janisse
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Rhonda Grisham
Christy Hawkes
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Diane Hamric
Kayla Hernandez
Tabitha Pacheco Willette
Joanna Hacker
Sonali Jain Modi
Jessica Steiner
April Ashcraft
Trish Marks
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Amber Chandler
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Jill Nauyokas
Lisa Puckett
Jill Nauyokas
9/26/19
Alicia Dansby
Brittany Doerfler
Andrea Ayala
Alicia Johnson
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Meg Marshall
Kristina Rosson
Melissa White
Maria Bouchard
Kacie Rogers
Dean Bruss
Phylicia Phillips
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Nai Merri
Trish Hysell
Nicole Blaha
Melissa Ann Stura Bassett
Trish Marks
Jo Bhagavathula
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
9/27/19
Doris Alday-Hepp
Jennifer Ramlet
Eleazar Ruiz
Brittany Light
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Sheila Carvell
Christy Hawkes
Kristina Rosson
Lisa Puckett
Anna Nichols
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Wanda L Flanagan
Jane Peterson
Becky Holland
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Jessica Steiner
Pamela Gonzalez
Nai Merri
Tabitha Sinks
April Ashcraft
Tera Lee Culverwell
9/28/19
Eleazar Ruiz
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Becky Hartman
Rhonda Grisham
Tammy Lee Stookey
Derek Michelle Polk
Sandy K High
Mike Adamski
Carl Buddy Mizell
Mary Pettiford
Elizabeth Gordon
Darlene Whyte
Kim Avery
MarcyLynn Coull
Becky Holland
Alisa Jones
Sheila Carvell
Alisone Giffune Paige
Jennifer Vega
Adnan Sarohan
9/29/19
Paula Johnson
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Rhonda Grisham
Brittany Light
Nicole Ryan
Marilyn Wall
Dean Bruss
Trish Hysell
Maria Bouchard
Ron Ald
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Sheila Carvell
Kristina Harris
Becky VanGinkel
Tammy Sparks
Karen Brunet Moore
Brittany Seiler
Lori Sexton Leal
Kayla Hernandez
Nancy Scharnhorst
Christy Hawkes
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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On September 15th, nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) launched a strike, walking out of over 50 General Motors facilities. Workers say GM continues to deny employees’ demands for fair conditions and compensation despite leading the company to record profits following bankruptcy and a federal bailout. The nearly 50,000 full-time and temporary workers represented by the UAW make up about half of its workforce.GM workers say they are pushing for a more equitable contract that will guarantee better wages for new hires, stronger health-care benefits and more job security. Workers are forgoing their paychecks during the strike, though the UAW will pay them $250 a week from its strike fund.
GM has made over $30 billion in the past six years, since recovering from its 2009 bankruptcy. Although they received profit-sharing checks that totaled $52,500 for the same period, workers want pay raises that will show up year after year. They gave up cost-of-living pay raises and made other concessions to keep the company afloat during its 2009 bankruptcy, and now they want to be repaid. Longtime workers have received only two raises since 2010. Workers hired after 2007 still make less than older workers, and the union wants to erase that gap.
The company is facing a global auto sales slowdown and also says health care costs are too high, and it wants to cut labor costs so they are closer to U.S. factories owned by foreign competitors. Senior GM workers now make around $30 per hour, but with benefits, it adds up to $63 per hour. Total labor costs run an average of $50 per hour at the foreign plants. The car giant has moved to close a handful of production facilities in the United States in recent years despite strong profitability margins. GM made $8.1 billion in profit after taxes last year but announced the closure of four factories, scuttling thousands of jobs. GM says it has offered to make $7 billion in investments and create 5,400 jobs, including introducing electric trucks, opening a battery cell manufacturing site and investing in eight existing facilities.
The strike has effectively halted GM’s production in the US and just a day after the strike, GM responded with a letter announcing they had cut off health insurance for the nearly 50,000 people on picket lines across the country. GM spokesman David Barnas said the decision to cut workers’ health care was a standard practice during stoppages, likening it to the cessation of worker paychecks. A spokesperson for the UAW stated that they would cover the striker’s health-care fees under COBRA in the interim from the pool of money it keeps for strikes. Employee dental and vision plans will not be covered during the strike.
The effects of the strike have been felt quickly, when GM dismissed 1,200 workers from an assembly plant in Ontario, Canada just three days after the strike started. GM has said the temporary layoffs were the result of parts shortages in the United States because of the strike. The factory had produced full-size pickup trucks. Analysts say GM could be losing as much as $50 million to $100 million a day from the stoppage. 
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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced actress Felicity Huffman to two weeks in prison for paying $15,000 to get her daughter into college by having someone correct her answers on the SATs. Huffman also received a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. She had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Her lawyers asked for no jail time, one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. Her sentence likely means other parents who’ve pleaded guilty in the nation’s college admissions scandal will spend time behind bars. It could also mean that others who made significantly larger payments will end up with more lenient prison terms than prosecutors say are fair.
During Huffman’s sentence she told the courtroom she was deeply ashamed. Judge Indira Talwani said, “Ultimately, you knew it was fraud, it was not an impulsive act. Trying to be a good mother doesn’t excuse this.” Talwani added that the sentence she handed down was “the right sentence here,” but also told Huffman “You can rebuild your life after this,” the judge said. “You’ve paid your dues.” Huffman will report to prison in six weeks, on October 25. Where she’ll serve her sentence has not been announced and will ultimately be decided by the Bureau of Prisons.
Fifty-two people have been charged as part of the college admissions bribery scandal known as “Varsity Blues.” Of the 52 people charged in the scandal, 35 are parents. Fifteen, including Huffman, have pleaded guilty in deals with prosecutors, while 19, including actress Lori Loughlin, have pleaded not guilty and are preparing for trial. Rick Singer, the mastermind of the nationwide college admissions scandal, was paid to have cheat on their children’s SAT or ACT while others paid substantially more to get their children falsely tagged as athletic recruits as a way into prestigious schools. Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced and prosecutors sought one month prison time for Huffman. Prosecutors are pushing for longer sentences for other defendants — more than three years in some cases.
The next parent to be sentenced in Boston federal court is Devin Sloane, CEO of Los Angeles-based waterTALENT. He pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 to Singer’s sham nonprofit to falsely designate his son as a water polo player to gain acceptance into the University of Southern California. Prosecutors are seeking one year in prison for Sloane. Sloane’s hearing is scheduling for September 24th. Two days later, Stephen Semprevivo, a former executive at Cydcor, also based in Los Angeles, will be sentenced. He pleaded guilty to paying $400,000 to Singer to get his son admitted into Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit. Prosecutors have asked that Semprevio receive 15 months in prison.
Both upcoming cases will reveal whether the judge treats the recruiting scheme the same as the testing scam, and whether she comes down harder on parents who paid more to Singer. Longer sentences could be in store for parents who participated in the recruitment scheme because it had a more “direct effect” on the admissions process than test tampering. Such parents, including Loughlin, accused of paying $500,000 to Singer, have argued they made “legitimate donations” to Singer’s nonprofit, which they said had a history of donating to colleges.
Prosecutors have argued parents who paid more money to Singer should receive longer prison terms. An order by the judge released hours before Huffman’s sentencing could cap sentences at six months for parents regardless of their how much they paid. Judge Talwani ruled against the government’s request to sentence defendants under the federal commercial bribery statute, which allows more severe sentences depending on the amount of money paid. Instead, all sentences will be based on fraud statute guidelines, which recommend six months or less in prison for the offense.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 22nd, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, September 22nd, 2019 was:
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Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 9/16/19 thru 9/22/19 are:
9/16/19
Amber Critchley
Cheryl Reagin Burns
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Alicia Johnson
Rushell Tuggle
Meg Marshall
April Ashcraft
Amber Chandler
Sheila Carvell
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Christina Radcliff
Alicia Dansby
Nacole Patrick
Diane Hamric
Melinda Poullion
Jo Bhagavatula
Wendi Black
Annette Broxton
Shelley Ann Peoples
Jill Nauyokas
Brandi K Chaney
9/17/19
Kristina Rosson
MarcyLynn Coull
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tracy Heyer
Alisa Jones
Amber Chandler
Meg Marshall
Tina Casto-Shafer
ShannonSchleif
Brooke Scott
Jill Nagel
Sandy Nevels
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Nai Merri
Amanda Rosario
Tonya Velazquez
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kim Avery
9/18/19
Debbie Gremlin
Kristina Rosson
Christy Hawkes
Jeannine Scavo
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jenifer Garza
Dale Fish
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Nai Merri
Emily Rice Bowersock
Missy Nicole Adams
Lisa Jimenez
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Michael Ingelido
April Walrath
Nicole Blaha
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Meg Marshall
Tabitha Sinks
Be Schwerin
Maria Bouchard
9/19/19
Lori Capobianco
LaKishia Wagers
Alicia Johnson
Trish Marks
Ambreen Javed
Marilyn Wall
Karen Brunet Moore
Melinda Dreier
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Kim Avery
Jennifer Lang
Be Schwerin
Rhonda Grisham
Amanda Rosario
Rosanne Clark
Kimberly Snyder
Phylicia Phillips
Shannon Schleif
9/20/19
Brooke Scott
Nicole Blaha
Annette French
Jennifer Ramlet
Melinda Poullion
Josephine Casey
Amanda Rosario
Rushell Tuggle
Jill Nauyokas
Nacole Patrick
Nelle Bailey
Shannon Rush
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Bea Patrick
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Paula M Bondy
Angela McCabe
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Brandi K Chaney
9/21/19
Jennifer Ramlet
Mike Adamski
Brooke Scott
Jenny Merritt
Marilyn Wall
Kevin Cusack
Steph Mitchell
Eva Biggs
LaKishia Wagers
Melinda Poullion
Shannon Rush
Diane Hamric
Amber Chandler
Kim Avery
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Maria Bouchard
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Mary Pettiford
Tracy Heyer
Lisa Bourlier
Dawn Raasch
9/22/19
Alisa Jones
Misty Dawn Moores
Brandi K Chaney
Shaz Sh
Barbara Austin
Jill Nauyokas
Heather Marocco
Tracy Heyer
Wayne Gallas
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Dean Bruss
Pam Johnson Rowland
Kimberly Snyder
Alicia Dansby
Lori Sexton Leal
Tera Lee Culverwell
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Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, killing at least 50 people. As the clean-up operation continues, the death toll is expected to rise. About 1,300 people are missing after Dorian, while at least 15,000 are in need of shelter, food and medical care. Compounding the Bahamas’ misery is a massive oil spill that’s begun to spread into the ocean off the southern coast of Grand Bahama island after Hurricane Dorian blew the lids off six giant crude oil tanks.
Dorian was packing Category 5 winds with speeds of 185mph when it made landfall at Elbow Cay on the Abacos on September 1st. It is the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic basin since 1935. Rescue efforts were hampered as Dorian stalled, grinding in place for hours instead of moving back over open ocean. It equaled the highest winds ever recorded for a hurricane at landfall when it struck the Abaco Islands.
On the Abaco island chain, which is less developed than the tourist areas of the country and populated by fishermen and Haitian migrants — thousands of homes are expected to have been damaged or destroyed. A Redcross spokesman said it is believed that 13,000 houses — nearly half of all the homes on Grand Bahama and Abaco — suffered severe damage or were entirely destroyed. During the storm, images showed profound levels of flooding and rainfall, with as much as 30 inches falling in some areas. The Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, the archipelago’s second-largest city, was five feet underwater.
United Nations officials say that over 60,000 people on the two islands need emergency food access, and that around 62,000 need access to clean water. The main hospital on Grand Bahama is reportedly unusable, while the hospital on Abaco desperately requires food, water, and medical supplies. The U.N. estimated that at least 70,000 people are homeless on Abaco and Grand Bahama. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from those islands to New Providence, where the country’s capital Nassau is located. The Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands, said 80 people with injuries were evacuated from the island of Abaco and five or six from Grand Bahama island. He said injuries ranged from broken bones to head injuries to “maternity-based issues.” Sands said some among the dead succumbed to their injuries after being evacuated. The Prime Minister encouraged parents to send their kids to school when they are evacuated to Nassau, and said the government would continue to provide food and healthcare.
The devastation wrought by Dorian after its day-and-a-half mauling of the Bahamas, left ravaged infrastructure that has impeded search and recovery efforts. The islands remain a mess of splintered buildings, torn-off roofs, snapped power poles and scattered vehicles. The hurricane destroyed the island’s power grid and severed most communications, although occasional text messages were getting through in Marsh Harbor, the biggest town. Risk modeler Karen Clark & Co. estimates that devastation from the storm could cost the country $7 billion in insured and uninsured losses. The preliminary estimate combines damage to commercial, residential and industrial properties as well as business-interruption expenses, the company said in a report. The figure doesn’t include vehicle losses or damage to infrastructure.
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A 50-year-old Kansas woman became the sixth person in the USA to die of a vaping-related lung illness, an outbreak that has ramped up health concerns nationwide. Kansas State Epidemiologist Farah Ahmed said in a statement that the unidentified patient had a history of underlying health issues and had been hospitalized with symptoms that progressed rapidly. Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said that the patient did have underlying health issues but nothing that would have foretold the fact that within a week after starting using e-cigarettes for the first time, she developed full-blown acute respiratory distress. Doctors say it’s clear the vaping related lung illness is responsible for her rapid deterioration.
Kansas health officials noted six more cases associated with the outbreak, three patients confirmed with the illness and three cases under investigation. Five previous vaping-related deaths were confirmed in California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Oregon. After the Kansas fatality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied six deaths and more than 450 possible cases of severe lung injury in 33 states and one jurisdiction. The CDC confirmed that investigators narrowed their focus and that the additive vitamin E acetate is a chemical involved in many of the cases, but officials emphasized it is not in all of the cases being reviewed.
People with a history of vaping who experience lung injury symptoms should seek medical care, according to Kansas health officials. Nationally, symptoms include shortness of breath, fever, cough, vomiting and diarrhea. Other symptoms reported by some patients include headache, dizziness and chest pain. Though many patients across the nation have been in their late teens, 20s or 30s, the Kansas death is a warning that older adults may be at particular risk.
Patients tend to arrive at the hospital short of breath and coughing. Many have also had fevers, general fatigue and gastrointestinal problems. It is not unusual for patients to be put into intensive care units, and on ventilators. All reported vaping nicotine, THC or a combination of the two in the days and weeks before falling ill. The CDC has recommended people stay away from vaping devices while investigators work to pinpoint exactly what’s behind the illnesses.
The rapid and worrisome increase has now prompted a Congressional hearing on the matter, after a policy discussion on the matter. The recent death has prompted the U.S. President to call for a ban on thousands of e-cigarette flavors in an effort to get people to give up e-cigarettes. E-cigarette companies have been given years to gather and submit evidence their products are safe and effective ways to quit smoking traditional tobacco. A federal judge has set a May 2020 deadline for companies to do so.
Dr. Norman said “God only knows what all is in there. There should be a moratorium on the sale of these products until we know more.” The American Lung Association also released a statement warning the public that e-cigarettes could cause irreversible lung damage. “No one should use e-cigarettes or any other tobacco product,” Harold Wimmer, national president of the American Lung Association, wrote in the statement. “This message is even more urgent today following the increasing reports of vaping-related illnesses and deaths nationwide.”
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