Arrest made in connection to last week’s Bloomington shooting
Bloomington Police have arrested 26 year-old Dalia Meyers in connection to a shooting in the Crestmont region of Bloomington last week. On January 12th, a 29 year-old woman was found shot in the head, laying in the back seat of a vehicle. The most recent report listed the woman as being in critical condition. Meyers was arrested on charges of criminal recklessness and criminal mischief. There is no information as to whether or not Meyers is believed to be the shooter.
* All criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until, and unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Attorney General Todd Rokita earns a $316,241 recovery for Hoosiers
Attorney General Todd Rokita announced that his office’s Indiana Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has received $316,241 on behalf of the Indiana Medicaid program as part of a $4.9 million resolution of allegations against PharMerica Inc. The company is one of the nation’s largest long-term care pharmacies, providing supplies and services to nursing homes and other facilities.
This recovery is the culmination of 14 years of litigation under the federal False Claims Act and similar state laws in Indiana and 10 other states. In September 2007, whistleblowers James Banigan and Richard Templin filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court against defendants Organon Inc., Omnicare Inc., and PharMerica Inc.
Banigan and Templin alleged that the pharmaceutical company Organon entered into an illegal scheme with PharMerica and Omnicare, another long-term care pharmacy. Under the alleged scheme, Organon would pay kickbacks to PharMerica and Omnicare to incentivize the pharmacies to switch the medications prescribed by patients’ physicians to those sold by Organon, including antidepressants Remeron Tablet and Remeron SolTab.
This resolution announced today brings the case to an end, with Indiana Medicaid having recovered a total of $1,865,813 in this case. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit recovered more than $8 million for the Indiana Medicaid program in 2021. Across all divisions, Attorney General Rokita and his team recovered more than $210 million in 2021 on behalf of Hoosiers.
Nominations sought for 2022 Bloomington Woman of the Year
The City of Bloomington Commission on the Status of Women is seeking nominees for the 2022 Woman of the Year, Toby Strout Lifetime Contribution, Emerging Leader, and Young Woman of the Year awards. Although nominations for these awards are accepted year-around, the deadline for submission of nominations for 2022 is February 11. The awards will be presented during Women’s History Month in March 2022.
The Woman of the Year Award is presented to a woman who has improved the quality of life for other women through inspiration, community service, or professional accomplishments above and/or outside normal job responsibilities. The recipient is someone who serves as a positive role model for girls and women and has made outstanding contributions to the community.
Nomination forms are available online
Send completed nomination forms by email to marissa.parrscott@bloomington.in.gov or by mail to: The Commission on the Status of Women, P.O. Box 100, Bloomington, IN 47402.
This Week in Hoosier History
2014 – Two new busts were unveiled at the Indiana Statehouse. One was in honor of James Hinton, the first African American to serve in the Indiana Legislature. The other was in tribute to Julia Carson, the first African American to represent Indianapolis in the United States Congress.
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