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TexasTowelie's JournalCharlotte-based Premier acquires two health care firms for 325M
Charlotte-based Premier Inc. reached an agreement to acquire Innovatix LLC and Essensa Ventures LLC – two health care purchasing organizations – for $325 million.
The transaction, announced Monday, is expected to be completed before the end of 2016, subject to customary closing conditions. In the 12 months ended June 30, 2016, the two acquired companies generated approximately $88 million in revenue and $50 million in net income.
Currently, Premier owns 50 percent of Innovatix. GNYHA Holdings LLC an affiliate of the Greater New York Hospital Association, owns the other 50 percent of Innovatix and 100 percent of Essensa.
Both Innovatix and Essensa are care group purchasing organizations (GPOs) serving institutional health care providers that are outside the acute care hospital or health system.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article117692053.html
Former Nelson County sheriff sentenced for role in recording incident of ex-rival
Nearly a year after leaving office, former Nelson County Sheriff David Brooks was convicted in a Lynchburg courtroom Monday of two misdemeanors stemming from an illegal recording of an ex-political rival in the fall 2013.
Brooks, 54, who retired at the end of last year after serving as Nelson’s sheriff from 2008 to 2015, entered Alford pleas Monday in Lynchburg Circuit Court to one count each of unlawful dissemination of images of another and malfeasance. An Alford plea means Brooks maintains his innocence but admits prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction.
The charges stem from an October 2013 incident involving Malcolm “Mac” Bridgwater, a former deputy in Nelson and Amherst counties who unsuccessfully ran against Brooks in 2007 and 2011 for sheriff, according to indictments from a multi-jurisdictional grand jury filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court.
Judge F. Patrick Yeatts sentenced Brooks to two years in jail with all time suspended and ordered 50 hours of community service. As part of the plea agreement, Brooks will allow his certification to lapse and cannot apply for a law enforcement position for a five-year period.
Read more: http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/former-nelson-sheriff-sentenced-for-role-in-recording-incident-of/article_d3d6c898-b57e-11e6-856c-6f4c371d432e.html
[font color=330099]It sure seems like a sweetheart deal considering the crime that was committed.[/font]
Virginia state police, deputies, cite dire straits in call for raises
Law enforcement salary issues are coming to a head for state leaders, even as budget writers look for the cuts to fill a revenue hole.
The head of the Virginia State Police has told legislators that troopers are leaving the force in big numbers for better paying jobs, including jobs at local departments with higher starting salaries. Col. Steven Flaherty has called pay issues at VSP "a stark reality being experienced across every section of the department."
He has 257 vacancies on a sworn force of 2,148.
The Virginia Sheriff's Association says some starting deputy salaries are back below thresholds for food stamp qualifications, just two years after a budgetary push to address this exact issue. The problem isn't statewide, but in counties that don't supplement base deputy pay levels set out by the state.
Read more: http://www.dailypress.com/news/newport-news/dp-nws-evg-vsp-salaries-budget-20161125-story.html
Trump claims 'serious voter fraud' in Virginia, but state ally says no 'mass scale' fraud reported
RICHMOND — After president-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence that there had been “serious voter fraud” in Virginia, his former campaign chairman for the state said Monday that he was not aware of any “mass scale” fraud.
John Fredericks, a conservative radio talk-show host who chaired Trump’s Virginia campaign, said there were “isolated incidents,” such as the roughly 20 dead people registered to vote in Harrisonburg.
“I was not made aware of any voter fraud in Virginia on a mass scale,” Fredericks said in an interview. “That doesn’t mean that there isn’t any.”
Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who supported Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, laughed off Trump’s claim while speaking to reporters.
Read more: http://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/trump-claims-serious-voter-fraud-in-virginia-but-state-ally/article_4b4b825c-0676-517d-ba69-8479a9eb3ba6.html
Governor, legislators 'cautiously optimistic' about state revenues
Less than three weeks before proposing a revised budget to deal with a $1.5 billion revenue shortfall, Gov. Terry McAuliffe says he is “cautiously optimistic” that state tax collections are rebounding.
McAuliffe, appearing Monday with Republican budget leaders in the General Assembly, said he is especially pleased with the apparent recovery of income taxes withheld from payroll, which account for nearly two-thirds of the state general fund budget.
“We clearly don’t have to cut as much as we thought we would,” he said after a closed-door meeting with the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates.
The chairmen of the General Assembly’s budget committees — who are members of the advisory council — also adopted a tone of cautious optimism about state revenues, which rose 3.5 percent ahead of the forecast in the first four months of the fiscal year that began July 1.
Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/article_7667b486-9e3c-5197-b53e-5c3551ee52ed.html
Liberty University hires former Baylor athletic director who resigned during sexual assault scandal
LYNCHBURG — Liberty University announced Monday that its new athletics director is Ian McCaw, who resigned as Baylor University’s athletics director in May after being sanctioned and placed on probation by the Texas school when its athletics program became embroiled in a sexual assault scandal.
The announcement came just 11 days after the abrupt resignation of Liberty athletics director Jeff Barber.
Under McCaw’s 13-year watch at the Waco, Texas-based university, the Bears won four national championships and more than 50 Big 12 championships.
His tenure ended unceremoniously, though. Prior to his resignation, he was sanctioned and placed on probation, football coach Art Briles was fired and university President Ken Starr resigned.
Read more: http://www.richmond.com/sports/college/article_6b0d1759-7c3d-5626-a5a0-ff7776bc267b.html
Black Lives Matter protesters sentenced to five days in jail for blocking Richmond interstate
Thirteen protesters have been sentenced to five days in jail for illegally blocking traffic on Interstate 95 in Richmond during a Black Lives Matter protest in July.
All 13 demonstrators pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in Richmond General District Court as part of a plea agreement.
While the judge allowed some to report to jail in December — at least one woman was granted a delay because she has upcoming college exams — others were immediately escorted off by sheriff’s deputies to begin serving jail time.
“It was rush hour. They put themselves in danger, and they put other people potentially in danger, so we thought that five days in jail was an appropriate punishment,” said Richmond Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Davis Powell, the prosecutor in the cases.
Read more: http://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/article_5406ad54-c3fa-541a-8c22-d3fc7689eea1.html
He paid Chesapeake more than 1,000 in fines for posting signs. Now the city is suing him.
CHESAPEAKE -- In the eight years since he took over Your Time Fitness, Ryan Mosher has put up hundreds, if not thousands, of signs around the city advertising his business.
At any given time, there’s “a few here, a few there,” he said.
When city officials started summoning him to court last year for violating their sign ordinance, he paid the fines. To him, it’s just the cost of doing business.
But to the city, the signs pose a safety hazard and impede daily operations. Now Chesapeake is taking legal action against Mosher and his company for repeatedly putting up signs in public spaces.
Read more: http://pilotonline.com/news/government/local/he-paid-chesapeake-more-than-in-fines-for-posting-signs/article_b69ed6e6-06b6-51e3-8f93-4f556b47d1aa.html
[font color=330099]Should we sympathize with a businessman that knows the law and continues to break it?[/font]
New state economic development official will earn 340,000, 11 percent more than previous CEO
RICHMOND -- A new CEO at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership – the agency that recently received a scathing review from state auditors – will earn $340,000 plus benefits, according to the agency. That is an increase of about 11 percent from the previous CEO’s salary.
The partnership’s board, appointed by the governor and General Assembly, on Monday announced it is hiring Stephen Moret for the job. Moret is the president and CEO of the Louisiana State University Foundation and was previously the secretary of economic development to former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Barry DuVal, CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, issued written statements praising the hiring of Moret.
Mismanagement and lax oversight at the economic development partnership have left the state vulnerable to fraud for more than two decades, according to a report this month by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the state’s legislative watchdog.
Read more: http://pilotonline.com/news/new-state-economic-development-official-will-earn-percent-more-than/article_135b07c1-ee5e-548d-967a-b6f415aa46df.html
Man yelled 'I will kill you' while stomping victim to death outside Wendy's near Parkland Hospital
DALLAS -- Police arrested a 57-year-old man Wednesday who they say punched and stomped a man to death outside a fast-food restaurant near UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Frank Blaes faces one count of murder. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail, with bail set at $500,000.
Police say Blaes attacked Gerry Lynn Norman, 58, about 1:20 p.m. Nov. 18 outside a Wendy's in the 5500 block of Harry Hines Boulevard.
According to his arrest warrant affidavit, Blaes punched Norman, knocking him to the ground. He then began stomping and kicking Norman in the head with his steel-toe boots.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/11/28/will-kill-suspectyelled-allegedly-stomping-victim-death-wendys-near-parkland-hospital
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