The Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District – SD35791 recently passed a ruling regarding serious physical in the STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent vs. DANIEL R. CARPENTER, JR., Defendant-Appellant case. injury Elements of assault in the second degree include serious physical injury, which includes protracted physical impairment, which the State showed with evidence that victim’s continuous back pain resulted from appellant running a car head-on into victim’s car, reported MOBAR.org.
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Today we’re going to be visiting a summary of State of Missouri vs. Gilbert Garcia, in the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District – WD81687, regarding restitution. The court ruled the defendant had permission to charge construction items onto the account holder’s account, but had charged personal items to the account. Those facts supported findings on the elements of knowledge and intent on a charge of receiving stolen property; do not constitute multiple acts, because the purchase of all items occurred at once, so the verdict director did not threaten defendant’s right to a unanimous verdict; and support a sentence that includes restitution. The parties agree that the judgment plainly erred in the amount, but rule does not expressly authorize the Court of Appeals to enter the judgment that the circuit court should have, so the Court of Appeals remands to circuit court for re-sentencing to set the corrected amount of restitution, reported MOBAR.org.
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Today we’re going to be visiting a summary of Alpha
Petroleum Company vs. Hani Daifallah, et al, in the Missouri Court of
Appeals, Western District – WD82222 and WD82230 rules regarding corporations
and other entities. An agent making a contract for a principal remains
personally liable on the contract, unless the agent identifies the principal,
and defendants’ use of fictitious names did not constitute disclosure of the
corporate principal. Evidence favorable to defendants does not require reversal,
reports MOBAR.org
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A Kansas City-based company that specializes in turning
around financially distressed hospitals is proposing to purchase Hillsboro
Community Hospital in rural Kansas for $6.9 million, reported KCUR.org.
Hillsboro Community Hospital was placed in Chapter 11
bankruptcy after its previous owner defaulted on its financial obligations.
Rural Hospital Group has submitted a bid for Hillsboro through a subsidiary.The
15-bed hospital operations were acquired by a group of Miami businessmen led by
Jorge Perez back in 2017, a group that had acquired control of nearly two dozen
distressed rural hospitals across the United States.
About a dozen other hospitals operated by Perez and his associates are now in bankruptcy. Those hospitals remain under the group’s control and their bankruptcy cases have all been consolidated in North Carolina, unlike the Hillsboro hospital.
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Victoria’s Secret is laying off about 15 percent of the
brand’s employees at its Columbus, Ohio, headquarters as the lingerie store
struggles to reshape its image and the chief executive of its parent company
remains under scrutiny for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, NY Times reported.
The timing of the layoffs was unusual in the retail industry
just before the key holiday season and involved senior leaders to junior staff.
Victoria’s Secret has found itself facing dismal performance and it has
discounted its products.
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69-year-old lawyer Christopher O’Brien of Wichita, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. The former lawyer in Wichita was sentenced to 36 months in custody for embezzling from clients, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. O’Brien has been ordered to pay more than $603,000 in restitution. O’Brien admitted he embezzled more than $132,000 from the bankruptcy estate of Roger L. and Maria K. Altis while he was representing the couple. O’Brien voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law in Kansas.
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Dean & DeLuca, the gourmet grocer, has shut its flagship
location in Manhattan, Bloomberg News reported.
According to a notice posted on the door, which said the store will reopen soon, the SoHo closing may be only temporary. The chain has been facing stalling sales and a competitive landscape from bigger rivals with massive capital such as Amazon, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods. Reportedly, suppliers have gone to court over unpaid bills. In weeks leading up to the closure, shelves at the main store were bare, and other U.S. locations have been closed as well.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos faces potential contempt of court and sanctions for continuing to collect on the debt of former students at bankrupt Corinthian Colleges Inc., going so far as seizing their wages and tax refunds, Bloomberg News reported. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim was “astounded” that Betsy and her department violated their order to cease collections of debts from the students, who were promised refund of their tuition.
In 2015, Corinthian had to file for bankruptcy protection
from creditors after facing a barrage of government investigations and lawsuits
alleging systemic fraud. As a result, the federal government declared that the
335,000 former students could erase their loans by filing out a simple form,
under penalty of perjury, would void their debt and prompt a refund on past
payments.
Charlie Merritt, a lawyer for the Education Department says the agency “takes responsibility” for the violations of Kim’s order. “We will bring ourselves into full compliance” and make sure the agency “stays that way going forward,” he added.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit
against FCO Holding, Inc and its subsidiaries. The compliant alleges that FCO
violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Regulation V, and the Consumer
Financial Protection Act.
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In August 2018, Special Agent Joseph Lorek from the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development emailed Stuart Bullington, the
former assistant director of Kansas City’s Neighborhoods and Housing Services
Department, asking for an accounting of all the federal money given to the
Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City (BEU). Bullington responded with a
2014 contract between BEU and the city to improve the Lincoln Building, the
historic building BEU used to own. The contract included $100,000 of federal
money, $75,000 of which those funds were being budgeted to upgrade the
elevator. Five years later the elevator has still not been repaired. BEU was
given two contract extensions to complete work on the Lincoln Building. In
February 2015, the city gave BEU an additional $71,500 for the first extension.
In an email from Bullington to Lorek, BEU spent less than $24,000 of the
$100,000 in federal money and less than $39,000 of the $71,500 in Kansas City
sales tax money fixing up the Lincoln Building. BEU sold the Lincoln
Building to Henry Service in 2017 for $750,000 after receiving roughly $387,000
in federal stimulus money, $171,500 in federal and city money, and a $400,000
loan. Tax records show that salaries and other employee benefits increased from
$7,540 in 2015 to $79,361 in 2016.
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