Pfizer and Allergan drop $160 billion merger plan
Pfizer and Allergan end their record deal after U S Treasury rules curb tax inversions. Pfizer will pay $150 million in expenses and both firms vow to pursue independent paths. Allergan braces for Teva sale and uses cash to fund acquisitions and debt reduction.
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Allergan
Treasury Department
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Allergan PLC
Ireland
Brent Saunders
Associated Press
Treasury
Saunders
Israel
Teva Pharmaceticals Industries Ltd
The
Dublin
Parsippany
New Jersey
New York Stock Exchange
Ex-coal CEO gets one year in prison for deadly mine blast
Former Massey Energy chief Don Blankenship drew the maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $250000 fine for a misdemeanor conspiracy linked to the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that killed 29 men. He told families he was sorrowful but proclaimed innocence as he left the Charleston courthouse amid protests from miners’ relatives.
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Charleston
W.va
Don Blankenship
U.S
Upper Big Branch
Irene Berger
Massey Energy
Blankenship
Robert Atkins
Jason
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Virginia AG seeks vacating life term for man in 1982 murder
DNA testing undermines Keith Harward's 1982 rape and murder conviction and points to Jerry Crotty, a former sailor who died in 2006, as the responsible offender. Harward's petition for actual innocence proceeds as Virginia investigates a possible pardon and contemplates bail hearings.
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Richmond
Virginia
Attorney General
State Supreme Court
Keith Allen Harward
Harward
Jesse Perron
Harvard
Mark Herring
Herring
Jerry L. Crotty
Crotty
Ohio Department of Corrections
Commonwealth
Lottery insider and brother charged in jackpot scandal
Iowa investigators say Eddie Tipton the former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association and his brother Tommy Tipton conspired to fix drawings and secure jackpots totaling 1.2 million across Oklahoma and Colorado. Court filings reveal a hidden random number generator with unauthorized code and a multisystem scheme tied to past Megabucks and Hot Lotto wins.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Oklahoma
Colorado
Tommy Tipton
Justice of the Peace and Reserve
Texas
Eddie Tipton
Lottery Association
Wisconsin
Tipton
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
Don Smith
Polk County
Des Moines
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