Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump’s firings – STAT

Federal agencies that oversee Medicare, Medicaid and other major healthcare programs face employee layoffs, flag morale, disrupt the message, and hopes for additional disruption undermine the monitoring and management of key programs that fund the care of half of Americans. Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have yet to formally receive a […]
Friar ‘Tummy Tuck’ stripped of his ‘priestly’ functions

The world is not his refuge. The Archdiocese of New York has stripped Father Paul Biercki of his “priestly licenses” after he was accused of misconduct, officials said. Federal investigators say the conman, who goes by the nickname “Father Paul” and also goes by the nickname “Friar Tummy Tuck,” used at least $650,000 in fake […]