Trump Administration Cuts The Size Of Fines For Health Violations In Nursing Homes

"The decrease in fines is one of the starkest examples of how, in response to industry prodding, the Trump administration is rolling back Obama's aggressive regulation of health care services.

Encouraged by the nursing home industry, the Trump administration switched from fining nursing homes for each day they were out of compliance — as the Obama administration typically did — to issuing a single fine for two-thirds of infractions, the records show.

That reduces the impact of the penalty, critics say, giving nursing homes less incentive to fix faulty and dangerous practices before someone gets hurt."

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Sisters Charged With Murdering Their Father

Sisters charged with murdering their father after one confesses to their shared lover

Authorities said their boyfriend recorded one of the sisters saying they suffocated Anthony Tomaselli, 85, to death because he did not want to go into assisted living.

By Minyvonne Burke

Two sisters in Florida almost got away with the "perfect murder" of their elderly father until one of them confessed to the man they were both romantically involved with, authorities said.

Linda Roberts and Mary-Beth Tomaselli were arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder, four years after their father, Anthony Tomaselli, 85, died in their Palm Harbor home.

Detectives began investigating Anthony Tomaselli's death as a homicide last month after a man dating both sisters called the sheriff's department and said Roberts, 62, had confessed to him that she and Mary-Beth Tomaselli, 63, "euthanized" their father because he was ill and would not go into an assisted living facility.

Sisters Charged

My Brother Borrowed $50,000 From My Dad and Never Paid it Back

My father is elderly and lives in Kansas and has a large revocable trust that he and my mother (now deceased) created in 2003. My older brother is the co-trustee and helps my dad with bills, etc. My brother took out a $50,000 loan in secret from my father a number of years ago. He is a co-trustee of my father’s estate.

My father told me recently that my brother never paid it back and that he told my father that he didn’t feel he needed to pay it back. What is the best way to address this so that this doesn’t happen again? Can anything be done about it? It appears there is no documentation, but my brother is furious that I found out about it.

My brother is also forging checks that he writes from my father’s checkbook. It is unknown if he is buying anything for himself or if he is forging checks only to pay bills. Is it unreasonable to request that he provide a periodic accounting to the two other beneficiaries (every three to six months) and what should a periodic accounting report include?

When my father passes, a bank is designated in the trust to be the entity that will be distributing the estate, not my brother.

Concerned Daughter

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