JFK Files: Newly released records reveal anonymous tip to newspaper, link to Soviet Union10/27/2017 Among the 2,891 items declassified by the U.S. Government in Thursday's release are details of Lee Harvey Oswald's links with the Soviet Union and an anonymous tip to a British newspaper 25 minutes before JFK was assassinated.Several key details from the newly declassified files are gaining attention, especially accounts from before the assassination. Weeks before the murder of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald met with a Soviet assignation agent, documents show. The files also show that the U.S. was keeping tabs on him and that Moscow questioned Oswald's mental state. Files also shows a mystery call was made to a senior reporter at the Cambridge News on November 22, 1963, at 6:05 p.m. local time. Kennedy was shot shortly afterwards at 12:30 p.m. central time. "The caller said only that the Cambridge News Reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up," the memo from the CIA's James Angleton to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said. One memo was first released in July, but went unreported until the group of files were released Thursday. The memo, dated November 26, 1963, reads: "After the word of the President's death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the anonymous call, and the police informed MI5. The important point is that the call was made, according to MI5 calculations, about 25 minutes before the President was shot. The Cambridge reporter has never received a call of this kind before, and the MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal personal with no security record." MI5 is Britain's domestic security agency. The memo was originally discovered by a lawyer, Michael Eddowes, who has spent his life investigating Kennedy's death. Eddowes, who died in 1992, told the Cambridge News in 1981 that he believed the anonymous caller was a British-born Soviet named Albert Osborne. Two months before Kennedy's assassination, Eddowes believed that Osborne, who used the alias John Howard Bowen, had friended Oswald. Sources: www.newsweek.com/lee-harvey-oswald-and-soviet-union-what-jfk-files-reveal-694441 www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/27/british-newspaper-got-anonymous-call-25-minutes-before-jfk-assassination/805893001/
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Health Services Management Inc., which owns Huntsville Health Care Center, has paid the United States $5 million to resolve claims that the company billed Medicare and Medicaid programs for services that were never provided. An investigation concluded that Huntsville Health Care Center billed for services that were not provided or services that were considered worthless and substandard. The claims for payment to Medicare and Medicaid for those services were deemed to be fraudulent and submitted in violation of federal and state law. The investigation followed a lawsuit filed by a whistle blower at Huntsville Health Care Center. She claimed that during her employment, she witness patient abuse and neglect, inadequate care, physical and verbal abuse and denial of basic services, such as providing food and water. “We take seriously the care of our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and inform,” acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez said. “When providers accept federal funds for reimbursement, they have a duty and responsibility to provide the best care possible to the patient, especially when those patients are elderly and at times incapacitated. The United State’s Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas will aggressively hold those accountable who fail to provide the care that is expected when the failure to do so results in harm to the patients and treasury.” “It’s disturbing when a nursing home company accepts Medicare and Medicaid money to care for vulnerable nursing home residents and in return provides substandard care, as alleged in this case,” said Special Agent in Charge, C.J. Porter, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “We will continue to hold nursing homes accountable to give residents the quality health services, and living conditions, taxpayers pay them to provide.” According to the Huntsville Health Care Center website, “our team of professionals have the real-world experience and resources to help your loved ones regain their highest level of function.” As a part of the settlement, HSM also agreed to enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Services Office of Inspector General. Health Services Management Inc. is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and owns and operates nursing home throughout Texas and the United States. Sources: www.kbtx.com/content/news/Huntsville-nursing-home-pays-millions-to-settle-claims-of-poor-quality-of-care--451688493.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/huntsville-nursing-home-pays-united-states-and-state-texas-5-million-settle-claims Las Vegas - A maintenance worker said Wednesday that he told hotel dispatchers to call police to report someone had opened fire inside the Mandalay Bay Resort. Worker Stephen Schuck says he was checking out a report of a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor of the resort when he heard gunshots. That is when a hotel security guard who had been shot in the leg appeared and told him to take cover.
"As soon as I started to go to a door to my left, the rounds started coming down the hallway," Schuck said. "I could feel them pass right behind my head." "As soon as the shooting stopped, we made our way down the hallway and took cover again, and then the shooting started again." Schuck says he then called over the radio to let other staff members know what was going on. The guard who was injured says he used his radio and possibly a hallway phone to also call hotel dispatchers for help. On Monday, police said they believe gunman Stephen Paddock shot a hotel security guard through the door of his suite six minutes before he started spraying bullets into the crowd of a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring over 500. That account differs from the one police gave last week when they said Paddock fired through the door of his room and injured the guard after shooting into the crowd. The company that owns Mandalay Bay has questioned the new timeline. "We believe what is currently being expressed may not be accurate. This remains an ongoing investigation with a lot of moving parts," said Debra DeShong, a spokeswoman for MGM Resorts International. Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-warned-hotel-before-las-vegas-shooter-opened-fire-on-crowd/ Huntsville - Authorities investigate the bones and prison ID that were found in the grass at the golf course owned by Sam Houston State University. On Wednesday, September 27, a city of Huntsville employee discovered skeletal remains while working in the area around the golf course and alerted the Huntsville Police Department.
"We think we know who it is because a TDCJ identification card was found in the pocket of some pants with the remains," Countz said.
Countz also said that the identity cannot be released due to the nature of the remains. With there only being bones left, the gender of the body could not be determined. Also due to the condition of the remains, the cause of death is pending because there was not enough of the body remaining to do an autopsy. The Sam Houston State University Police Department is handling the investigation with the assistance of state and local law enforcement agencies since the remains were found on university property. Sam Houston State released a statement that Wednesday afternoon to tell students they were not in any danger. "This property is not part of the main campus," read the statement. "There is no threat to students, and the remains appear to have been there for some time." |
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