Anti-Corruption...

A district attorney on eastern Long Island and a top aide were charged with intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into the beating of a handcuffed prisoner by a police chief.

D- Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, Christopher McPartland, were named in an indictment charging them with obstruction of justice, witness tampering and other offenses related to the case against former county Police Chief James Burke.

Last year, Burke was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for orchestrating a department cover-up after beating a handcuffed man for stealing embarrassing items from his department-issued SUV. Burke was a longtime protege of Spota's and once worked as an investigator in the district attorney's office before being named chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, one of the largest suburban departments in the country with 2,500 officers.

Officers subpoenaed by FBI agents investigating the 2012 beating were interrogated afterward about whether they had talked, prosecutors said. Unnamed co-conspirators had warned some that if they admitted wrongdoing, their union would not pay their legal fees.

What About Us...

Autonomus...

As investors push auto stocks higher believing autonomous-drive technology will ultimately deliver a huge payoff, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne is here to throw some cold water on that optimism.

"Don't believe the fluff," Marchionne told analysts when asked about self-driving cars. "I don't want to start chasing rainbows here, because if you chase rainbows you are going to fall off the cliff."

Marchionne's point: It will be a while before we see widespread use of autonomous-drive vehicles and it is still too early to know which companies will succeed and which ones will fail with self-driving cars.

The question now is do we have the road for it?

Ban...

Image is not related.

Democratic and Republican leaders in the New Jersey Legislature plan to introduce legislation banning the kind of non-disclosure agreements crafted to cover up sexual harassment and misconduct by executives at The Weinstein Company and Fox News, NJ Advance Media has learned.

In the past two weeks, reports in The New York Times  detailed how Hollywood film executive reached at least eight such settlement pacts with women to buy their silence.

Those reports came on the heels of similar scandals at Fox News Channel, which in April fired host Bill O'Reilly over sexual harassment charges after having reached settlements with five women at the company totaling $13 million.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes resigned under pressure amid allegations of sexual harassment, including Fox anchors  Megyn Kelly, Andrea Tantaros and Gretchen Carlson, who received a $20 million settlement.

Can the same politicians of NJ, where many of Big Pharma companies exist, can they do something about lower Medications' price?  ...........and leave "well enough alone" it is still allegations.   Just a thought.

Real...

"Let's get real. Let's get the homeless the help they need," Cuomo said in an interview on NY1. "Shelters, mental health, job training et cetera. Second, the New York City Transit Authority is owned by the city and policed by the NYPD. The NYPD used to this. They need to do it again."

"Homelessness is not a crime and homeless people who are not violating subway rules cannot be ejected from the system," NYPD Deputy

The latest disagreement is part of a larger debate over which agency should pay for emergency safety repairs to the subway system. Gov. Cuomo has said the city and the state should split the bill.

The Gov. blame the subway system huge problems, passengers late by 40 minutes each direction, derailments, inconveniences wants to get real and talk about the homeless...

Do something for God's sake. Enough of the fake talk. The subway system is used by 2 million passengers a day.

Nothing...

Kate...

Trial is set to begin this week for a Mexican man who set off a national immigration debate after he fatally shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle on a popular San Francisco pier.

The man acknowledges shooting Steinle in the back while she was walking with her father on the downtown pier July 1, 2015.

He claimed that the shooting was accidental as he was handling a handgun he found wrapped in a T-shirt under a bench on the pier when it accidentally fired. The handgun belonged to a Bureau of Land Management ranger who reported that it was stolen from his parked car in San Francisco a week before Steinle was shot.

Zarate had been deported five times and was homeless in San Francisco when he shot Steinle. He had recently completed a prison sentence for illegal re-entry when he was transferred to the San Francisco County jail to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge.

Need someone to do something about the wild west  illegals.

Thad...

Minus all wheat and grains, and many health issues disappear.

Soar...

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Jeff Bezos

Morgan Stanley has a new report out for investors that outlines how Amazon's potential push into pharmacy would benefit consumers. 

The authors speculate that Amazon could open "virtual retail pharmacies," leveraging its Prime Now network for millions of U.S. consumers to buy drugs online..

It would not be a huge challenge for Amazon to become a pharmacy and get added to existing pharmacy benefits managers' networks.  

Secondly, the company could establish relationships with manufacturers of inexpensive generic drugs.

And finally, and most critically, Amazon would build partnerships with makers of branded drugs.

If the company is successful, Morgan Stanley expects that the rebates and other discounts that are currently retained by companies including the pharmacy benefits managers could "pass back to consumers.

Amazon would finally kill the little businesses and then the prices will soar.  It's all about the money.  Just a thought.

Jealousy...

The New York Times reported that O'Reilly paid $32 million to a Fox News colleague who threatened to sue him for alleged sexual misconduct.

Lis Wiehl's complaints "included allegations of repeated harassment, a non-consensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her.

Weeks later, Fox News renewed O'Reilly's contract, reportedly worth $25 million a year. Fox says it knew about the existence of the settlement, but not the price tag.

O'Reilly was fired after another Times story that revealed previously secret settlement payments to other O'Reilly accusers.

Twitter and Facebook lit up about the jaw-dropping payment. "Nobody pays $32m for false allegations - nobody," Gretchen Carlson tweeted.

We haven't got enough settlement out of the Fox.   Just a thought.