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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

This feature is sponsored by Chris Walsh For Vanderburgh County Clerk. Chris Walsh is a veteran county administrator that strongly supports our local law enforcement professionals . Chris is a candidate that possess a non-partisan attitude with a consumer friendly demeanor. Chris also stands against unification of city and county governments.

This ad paid for by the committiee to elect Walsh Clerk, Kelly Walsh, Treasurer

Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Friday, July 27, 2012.

Brian Bates Possession of Methamphetamine – Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana – Class A Misdemeanor
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor

Jonathon Hatch Possession of a Controlled Substance – Class D Felony
Possession of Paraphernalia – Class A Misdemeanor
Public Intoxication – Class B Misdemeanor

Nathaneal Johnson Possession of Marijuana – Class A Misdemeanor
(Enhanced to a Class D Felony due to Prior Convictions)
Criminal Mischief – Class A Misdemeanor

Monquoale Owsley, Sr. Operating a Vehicle as an Habitual Traffic Violator – Class D Felony
Unlawful Use of a Police Radio – Class B Misdemeanor

Tia Tattts Possession of Methamphetamine – Class D Felony
Possession of Marijuana – Class A Misdemeanor

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Carly Settles at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at csettles@vanderburghgov.org.

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

SENTENCE CHART

Class
Range
Murder
45-65 Years
A Felony
20-50 Years
B Felony
6-20 Years
C Felony
2-8 Years
D Felony
½ – 3 Years

A Misdemeanor
0-1 Year
B Misdemeanor
0-180 Days
C Misdemeanor
0-60 Days

Pro-Consolidation Statement on Complaint Filed by CORE

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Numerous community leaders reacted strongly today at efforts to prevent Vandeburgh residents from voting on a Plan of Reorganization this fall. “The opponents of unification do not understand the plan and its obvious benefits to our community, said County Commissioner Joe Kiefer. He added, “It’s an effort to disenfranchise voters by not allowing citizens of Vanderburgh County a say in this important issue. Additionally, this challenge is an unnecessary expense for tax payers. Let the voters decide this issue on November 6th!”

According to a complaint filed with the Vanderburgh County Election Board, opponents of the plan to merge city and county government contend that certain signatures needed to get the referendum on the ballot were invalid.

To trigger the referendum process, state law required the signatures of at least 5 percent of county voters who cast ballots in 2006. Official election results put that number at 2,632.

Roberta Heiman and the organization she now leads, the League of Women Voters, helped gather many of the signatures. “I’m confident that County Clerk Susie Kirk did a thorough job and that we collected the required number of signatures. In fact, we collected many more than were required by the state law.”

Over 3,300 signatures were collected across the community, and after a thorough review, 2,757 were ultimately certified by the Clerk’s Office.

Supporters of the Plan of Reorganization have focused their campaign on educating residents on the tremendous opportunities that passage will bring. Said Kiefer, “We’ll continue to work hard communicating with every voter and making sure they have all the facts about how this important initiative will build a better future for each of us.”

The Vanderburgh County Election Board will hold its meeting on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 1:30 pm in the Vanderburgh County Election Office (Room 214) at the City County Building.

IS IT TRUE July 30, 2012

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE July 30, 2012

IS IT TRUE at the most recent meeting of the 2nd Amendment Patriots, Glen Kissel had briefly updated everyone on the HRC (Human Rights Commission) situation?…upon hearing this Vanderburgh County Commissioner Marsha Abell announced that due to a situation between the HRC and the Evansville Rescue Mission, she intends to explore drastically reducing the county funding of the HRC?…this elicited the loudest cheer I have ever heard at a 2nd Amendment Patriots meeting?…that several CCO Moles have advised us that both Commissioners Stephen Melcher and Joe Kiefer have had toxic communications with Diane Clements, HRC Executive Director in recent days? …Mr. Tracy Gorman, the CEO of the Evansville Rescue Mission, had written a long letter to Mayor Winnecke detailing the actions of an HRC investigator that were much more like the actions expected by a hired gun attorney than an unbiased investigator?

IS IT TRUE that some in the community are contending that nearly all City Ordinances will control in the County if the Merger Plan is passed by voters in November?… that the new Merger Common Council will have to examine all conflicting City and County Ordinances and decide how to resolve such differences should the Merger Plan win approval by the voters in November?

IS IT TRUE the set of data compiled by Nicholas Eberstadt, political economist and demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, and published under the title, “A Nation of Takers.” Government transfers resulting from some 50 benefit programs – money taken from some taxpayers and redistributed to others – continue to grow at an exponential rate, and twice as fast as per capita income?… between 1969 and 2009 these transfer payments have risen from 7.8 percent of personal income to 17.6 percent?… most significant, Eberstadt shows that almost half of all Americans live in households receiving some government benefits?…it is not unrealistic to expect this fact to affect votes in November, and to create an atmosphere favorable to President Obama?

IS IT TRUE that the auction at Roberts Stadium is being prepared and every shred of material in the building will be available for bidding?…come 10 am on Saturday August 4, 2012 the Roberts Stadium that has served Evansville for over half a century will become a shell just waiting for the wrecking ball?…it is not too late for the City of Evansville to add one last item to the auction?…the appropriate last item would be Roberts Stadium itself that if auctioned would save the City of Evansville the $8 Million plus overruns that are planned to be spent foolishly for another park that will see limited use and will add to the maintenance load of the already failed Parks Department?…that Keep Evansville Beautiful has recently handed the Adopt a Spot program to the Parks Department?…that this well run program will soon be a memory if the Parks Department performs as it does on everything else it does?…this move made about as much sense as handing a toddler the keys to the family car?

Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana Announces 2012-13 Speaker Series

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The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana, part of the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration at the University of Evansville, is proud to announce the 2012-13 Institute Speaker Series, sponsored by Old National Bank.

“Our primary objective at the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana is to assist regional businesses in improving their global capabilities,” said Dan Miller, the Institute’s executive director. “The three speakers we are announcing today are recognized figures who will help us learn about global branding, transformation of businesses, and innovation, based on their first-hand experience and success in these areas.”

The series begins Wednesday, October 24 with an appearance by Calvin Klein, an award-winning fashion icon recognized globally as a master of minimalism. His name ranks among the best-known brands in the world, with Calvin Klein Inc. reaching over $6 billion in global retail sales. Klein will speak in Indianapolis at noon and at Evansville’s Victory Theatre at 7:00 p.m. (local times). His appearance is presented in partnership with the Rotary Club of Indianapolis.

The series’ next event on Thursday, March 14, 2013 will feature Ken Schmidt. As the former director of communications for Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Schmidt played an active role in one of the most celebrated turnarounds in corporate history — and got paid to ride motorcycles. He will speak in Indianapolis at noon and at Evansville’s Aiken Theatre in The Centre at 6:00 p.m. (local times).

The 2012-13 Institute Speaker Series will conclude Tuesday, September 17, 2013 with an appearance from John Kao, an innovation activist who has been dubbed “Mr. Creativity” by The Economist. Kao, the chair of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation, holds an MD from Yale Medical School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a Tony Award-nominated producer of Broadway plays and a jazz pianist. He will speak in Indianapolis at noon and at Evansville’s Victory Theatre at 7:00 p.m. (local times).

Admission to all Evansville events is free and open to the public. Ticket information for Indianapolis events is forthcoming. For more information, please contact the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana at 812-488-2455 or globalindiana@evansville.edu.

Source: Evansville.edu

Conference at USI to probe secrets of aging

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What’s the secret to a long life? How is aging approached in other cultures? These questions and many more will be addressed during the fifth annual Mid-America Institute on Aging to be held August 9-10 in the University Center at the University of Southern Indiana.

The conference, sponsored by the College of Nursing and Health Professions, is a two-day multi-disciplinary conference for nurses, social workers, older adults, lay persons, and professionals working in the field of gerontology. National and local speakers will provide practical tools and ground-breaking information related to successful aging and gerontology.

“This is an excellent opportunity for individuals in health professions as well as anyone in the community that’s interested in living in a healthy way and aging in a healthy way,” said Peggy Graul, coordinator of continuing education for Nursing and Health Professions at USI.

The conference typically draws as many as 250 participants from the local community and throughout the Midwest. Topics will include inspirational keynotes as well as multiple sessions ranging from healthy aging to coping with illness.

Dr. Margaret P. Moss will deliver the keynote address, “American Indian Aging and Unintended Consequences” and a concurrent session, “Ethnography of Aging-Zuni Elders.” Moss is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. Her main area of interest is American Indian aging.

Dr. Leslie Martin, coauthor of the book, The Longevity Project, will discuss “The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study,” as well as a concurrent session, “Running for Their Lives: Physical Activity and Longevity.” She is a health psychologist and has studied pathways to health and longevity for the past 20 years. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California and is currently chair of the Department of Psychology at La Sierra University in Riverside. In addition to her research on pathways to health and longevity, she studies clinician-patient communication and its relationship to patient outcomes.

Viki Kind is a clinical bioethicist, hospice volunteer, and the author of the award-winning book, The Caregiver’s Path to Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices for Those Who Can’t. Her presentation is “Tools to Empower Caregivers Who Are Making the Difficult Decisions,” and concurrent session, “Facilitating Difficult Conversations – Getting Through the Barriers.” She is an honorary board member of the Well Spouse Association and has been a caregiver for many years for four members of her family.

Dr. Jerald Winakur will present the closing conference, “Portrait of My Father: Ethical Caregiving in Aging America.” Using the techniques of the medical narrative, he will discuss the demographic and ethical challenges our society faces – particularly caregivers – as our country ages. Winakur has practiced internal and geriatric medicine for 36 years. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and an associate faculty member at the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, where he teaches in the care curriculum.

Other conference topics include long-distance care giving; integration of primary care with geriatrics and community-based social services; Social Security and estate planning; services for the visually impaired; motivational interviewing, and other topics of interest. Early morning relaxation sessions will include demonstrations of Native American flute music, yoga, harp music, and Tai Chi by local practitioners.

Exhibit Hall

More than 30 area organizations will set up booth space in the exhibit area throughout the two days of the conference. Exhibits will include sales representatives from healthcare technology, equipment companies, senior health services, home healthcare, and assisted living as well as many others.

Continuing education credits are also available to nurses, social workers, health facility administrators, health education specialists, case managers and dental hygienists. Retirees and students can register at a reduced fee.

Corporate sponsors include St. Mary’s, Solarbron, and American Senior Communities.

Source: USI.edu

Takers overtake Makers? Is 2012 the year this comes to Fruition

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Here are four facts that ought to scare the daylights out of every person who cares about preserving individual freedom, economic opportunity and American self-reliance. According to the Heritage Foundation’s latest Index of Dependency — which measures the degree to which individuals rely on benefits funded by the tax payments of other Americans — these four facts illustrate the reality that our country is losing the spirit of independence that is the heart of citizenship:

• Takers get more than makers: Individuals received on average $32,748 worth of benefits annually in 2010, the most recent year for which full data is available. By comparison, the average personal disposable income of tax-paying Americans was $32,446.

• More takers mean more costs for taxpayers: An estimated 67.3 million people in America depended on government for food stamps, retirement income, health care, job training and a host of other benefits. As a result, the dependency index rose 8.1 percent in 2010 over 2009, at a cost to taxpayers of $2.5 trillion.

• Fewer makers to support each taker: Just as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher predicted, sooner or later the entitlement state runs out of other peoples’ money to redistribute. In 2010, nearly half — 49.5 percent — of all adult Americans paid no federal income taxes. This is a prescription for an economic imbalance similar to the one that has paralyzed Greece.

• Ranks of the takers are exploding: The baby boomer generation has begun retiring and within the next 25 years their ranks will swell to more than 70 million. Virtually all of them will depend on government for many benefits. This means the Dependency Index is headed higher, even if major entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are reformed now.

As disturbing as these facts are, they only scratch the surface of a problem that Heritage has been tracking since 2002. The index is unique because is measures multiple factors associated with the cost of providing government benefits, as well as the scope of their distribution, using 1962 as a baseline. As Heritage’s Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell explain, “the index score has grown by more than 15 times its original amount. This means that, keeping inflation neutral in the calculations, more than 15 times the resources were committed to paying for people who depend on government in 2010 than in 1962.”

Alexis de Tocqueville reputedly said that the American republic will last only “until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.” Indeed, political philosophers have warned since Aristotle that the worst flaw of democracy is the tendency of the majority to oppress the minority. That is what happens when takers become the majority and use their political power to force makers to hand over the fruit of their labor in the form of taxes. The time remaining for America to reverse this debilitating ratio is rapidly disappearing.

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Family Fun Day at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

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Family Fun Day at Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

Sponsored by Kyle Rhone State Farm

Evansville, IN – Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden is pleased to present Family Fun Day, sponsored by Kyle Rhone State Farm, on Saturday, August 4th from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Enjoy a variety of games and activities for the entire family including zoo keeper talks, magic shows, the Evansville Otters, inflatable bounces, games, clowns, and much more, all free with paid Zoo admission or Zoo membership. Ice enrichment activities will also take place during Family Fun Day. Zoo keepers will provide virtually every animal in the Zoo a cool treat to enjoy. All treats will be some form of ice, including fruit popsicles, veggie popsicles, and blood popsicles (for the carnivores). The Mesker Park Zoo American Association of Zoo keepers will also be selling snow cones to keep the visitors cool.

Evansville’s Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden is open 365 days a year from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (must leave grounds by 5 p.m.). Adult admission is $8.50 and children ages 3-12 are $7.50. Children under 3 are free. In recognition of their support, Vanderburgh County residents receive $1 discount. Group discounts and yearly memberships are also available. Please visit www.meskerparkzoo.com for more information.

Zoeller: Indiana to receive $3.3M in drug wholesaler settlement

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Zoeller: Indiana to receive $3.3M in drug wholesaler settlementAG: Whistleblower exposed scheme to overcharge Medicaid for RX drugs

INDIANAPOLIS – The State of Indiana will recover more than $3.3 million in a settlement with McKesson Corporation to resolve lawsuits alleging the drug wholesaling company schemed to overcharge Medicaid for prescription drugs, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced today.

The Indiana Medicaid program will receive $3,314,939.48 as the state’s share of a larger multistate settlement with McKesson totaling $175 million. The settlement resolves a multi-state whistleblower lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act in federal court in New Jersey as well as a separate Indiana-only lawsuit filed in Marion County Superior Court in Indianapolis.

“The False Claims Act is an important tool that allows private citizens to stop fraud against the taxpayers by initiating whistleblower lawsuits that states can investigate and join. It also deters future fraud to know that whistleblowers with courage in bringing a suit against large corporations that defrauded Medicaid will receive some share of the recovery as set out in the statute,” Zoeller said.

McKesson is a San Francisco-based wholesaler that buys prescription drugs from pharmaceutical manufacturers and resells them to health care programs such as Medicaid. A co-defendant in the lawsuits is a company in San Bruno, Calif., First DataBank Inc., that publishes the acquisition costs of thousands of types of prescription drugs. Medicaid relied upon First DataBank’s price lists to calculate the reimbursement amounts Medicaid paid pharmacies, physicians and clinics for prescription drugs it covered.

Under state and federal laws, Medicaid can pay no more for prescription drugs than the acquisition cost. The lawsuits alleged that McKesson and First DataBank colluded to artificially inflate the drug prices, thus causing Medicaid to overpay pharmacies and providers for thousands of different types of covered prescription drugs. Lawsuits brought by the federal government and states sought to recover the tens of millions of dollars Medicaid was overcharged between 2001 and 2009 when the scheme took place.

The joint settlement announced today resolves lawsuits against McKesson, which does not admit wrongdoing. First DataBank is not part of the settlement and litigation against it is ongoing. The $175 million multi-state settlement follows up on McKesson’s earlier settlement in April with the U.S. Department of Justice where it agreed to pay the federal government $190 million to resolve similar overcharging allegations. Medicaid is a state and federal program that funds health care for low-income people.

The overpricing scheme first was exposed when a private plaintiff filed a whistleblower lawsuit – called a qui tam lawsuit – in New Jersey that the federal government and states later joined. Under the state and federal versions of the False Claims Act, a whistleblower plaintiff is entitled to receive a percentage of any settlement in a qui tam lawsuit. The whistleblower in this case is expected to receive approximately $570,000 in McKesson’s settlement with the state, on top of the $3.3 million Indiana Medicaid will receive.

Under a public awareness campaign called “Blow the Whistle on Fraud,” Zoeller and deputy attorneys general from the AG’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) have made a number of presentations to groups of health care workers, to educate them about their legal rights as whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.

Since January 2009, the AG’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has participated in 17 settlements of whistleblower lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies over allegations of illegal off-label marketing. Through those settlements, Indiana Medicaid has recouped approximately $35 million in recovery for drug-reimbursements wrongly paid out due to fraud against the program.

To learn more about how whistleblowers can file suit under the False Claims Act, visit this link:

http://www.in.gov/attorneygeneral/2807.htm

Members of the public can report fraud against the Medicaid program or Medicaid patient abuse and neglect by contacting the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at (800) 382-1039.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY

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This feature is sponsored by Chris Walsh For Vanderburgh County Clerk. Chris Walsh is a veteran county administrator that strongly supports our local law enforcement professionals . Chris is a candidate that possess a non-partisan attitude with a consumer friendly demeanor. Chris also stands against unification of city and county governments.

This ad paid for by the committiee to elect Walsh Clerk, Kelly Walsh, Treasurer

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

Evansville, IN – Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, July 26, 2012.

Fabian Bennett Receiving Stolen Property – Class D Felony
Criminal Mischief – Class A Misdemeanor
Adam Schnabel Failure to Register as a Sex or Violent Offender – Class D Felony (Three Counts)