AnneBonny

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago (9 children)

No one is stopping you from giving money to the government.

You can make a gift to reduce public debt here: https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454

You can donate to the U.S. Government here: https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/708094624

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 months ago

I think "smuggling of persons" is the most appropriate charge, but I'm not a lawyer.

Sec. 20.05. SMUGGLING OF PERSONS.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.20.htm

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're moving the goal posts. You said:

The only people impacted were the “defrauded investors.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The only people impacted were the “defrauded investors.

I don't know where you got that idea.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided that Theranos' Newark, California, facility poses "immediate jeopardy to patient safety."

In December 2013, a lab inspector found that the lab didn't meet the required standards for at least 10 different blood tests.

Despite the changes that Theranos implemented after the 2013 inspection, the company's California lab failed even the simplest of tests the next year. The company obtained "unsatisfactory" scores — 70 percent and 40 percent — for two blood typing tests in early 2014,

In April 2015, Theranos was caught once again skipping over a fundamental safety procedure, at a lab in Scottsdale, Arizona. Theranos couldn't produce data showing that its staff has tested the lab's commercial instruments before using them on customer samples,

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/27/10853340/government-says-theranos-lab-poses-immediate-threat-to-public-safety

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not defending Abbott's operation.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Don’t get fooled into “it’s only human trafficking if it’s transporting for sex/profit”. It’s a much broader definition

I'll have to think about this. Thanks for responding.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 months ago

I think it might qualify as human smuggling, but I'm not a lawyer.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

...did you read the article?

In October 2022, Ms Jones Doering was exonerated by a Hearing Officer who ordered her to be reinstated as a social studies teacher at Roosevelt Middle School, situated in an area populated with more than 50 per cent Black or African American residents.

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