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An impostor nurse who duped health care companies into hiring her for high-paying executive jobs by lying about her education has been sentenced to 65 months in prison for defrauding employers out of $2.2million and evading nearly $700,000 in taxes. Sonja Emery's fraud spanned seven years and multiple states, according to the Justice Department’s Tax Division and US Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan.   According to documents and information provided to the court, Emery, 55, used several aliases including 'Sonja Lee Robinson,' 'Sonjalee Emery-Robinson,' and 'Sonjalee Emery,' and lived in Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and California.  Emery falsely claimed to be a Registered Nurse licensed in New York, Georgia, Connecticut, and California (file image) From 2011 through 2018, Emery misrepresented her professional status, educational background, and work experience to secure lucrative consulting positions in the health-care industr

Medical campaigners have demanded vaccine manufacturers in the UK and France reveal how much it costs to make any Covid-19 jab that is proven to work to ensure they do not profit from it. Doctors Without Borders – officially known as Medecins Sans Frontieres – has made the call to French company Sanofi and the UK's GlaxoSmithKline. The firms yesterday revealed that they will supply 200million doses of their jab to a global facility backed by the World Health Organization. But campaigners fear the firms will try to profit from the vaccine and said they must be totally up-front about how much it costs to make, and sell it 'at-cost', meaning the price of each dose covers only the amount spent making it and no more. MSF warned that pharmaceutical companies could not be trusted to do the right thing behind closed doors and that financial information about vaccines should be made public.  Pharmaceutical companies all over the world are racing to try and develop a vaccine that co

A Florida mother who has been accused of drowning her nine-year-old autistic son in a canal and then concocting a bogus kidnapping story now faces the death penalty after being indicted for first-degree murder. A Miami-Dade grand jury this week returned an indictment against Patricia Ripley, 45, stemming from the drowning death of her special-needs son, Alejandro, in May. During a Thursday morning court hearing, prosecutors announced that they would seek the death penalty against the mother. Scroll down for video  A Miami-Dade grand jury has indicted Patricia Ripley, 45 , for first-degree murder in the May 21 drowning of her son, Alejandro Ripley . The child was autistic and non-verbal  The nine-year-old's body was removed from a canal at the Miccosukee Golf and Country Club in Miami after Ripley claimed that two black men had abducted her son  Under Florida law, only someone who is indicted by a grand jury can receive the death penalty.  Ripley faces charges of first-degree murder

Peter Dutton is still not ruling out accepting New Zealand's longstanding offer to resettle refugees held on Manus Island and Nauru. The home affairs minister said he was working day and night to remove asylum seekers from offshore processing centres. Mr Dutton said between 850 and 900 people had been resettled in the United States in 2016. Peter Dutton is still not ruling out accepting New Zealand's longstanding offer to resettle refugees held on Manus Island and Nauru. Refugees are seen on Manus Island in 2014 He said the number of refugees left on Nauru was down to 134. About the same number are believed to be in Papua New Guinea. New Zealand has offered to take 150 refugees per year off Australia's hands since 2013. The coalition government is yet to take up the offer. 'We have not ruled out an arrangement with New Zealand,' Mr Dutton told parliament on Thursday. 'I have said that and I've been very clear that we will work with New Zealand as we do on ma

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to make passing the LGBTQ rights legislation known as the Equality Act a top priority, hoping to sign what would be a landmark civil rights law within 100 days should he win Tuesday's election. Biden, a leading voice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights as vice president under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017, also pledged in an interview with the Philadelphia Gay News to expand queer rights internationally by making equality a centerpiece of U.S. diplomacy should he win the election and assume office in January. Promise: Joe Biden, who was campaigning in Coconut Creek, Florida, Thursday, says he would pass the proposed Equality Act within his first 100 days The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in 2019, but the legislation stalled in the Republican-controlled Senate. Biden would need the Democrats to hold the House and take control of the Senate to ensure passage. Biden ha

A Brussels district has suspended a teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed while discussing the murder of a French teacher who had used the same image, its spokesman said Friday. The Belgian teacher, who works in the Brussels district of Molenbeek, showed one of the cartoons previously published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo while explaining Samuel Paty's death. 'Our decision is uniquely based on the fact that these are obscene images. If it had not been of the Prophet we would have done the same thing,' said a spokesman for Molenbeek's mayor. A school teacher in Brussels has been suspended after they showed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to children while discussing murder of French teacher Samuel Paty (file photo)  The teacher was using cartoons first shown in Charlie Hebdo while holding a discussion about the brutal murder of school teacher Samuel Paty in France The teacher, who has not been identified, was working in a school in the Brussels

A son shot his own mother dead before turning the gun on himself - because he was worried about caring for his animals during lockdown. Farmer John Bound, 59, and mother Gwendoline Christine Bound, 80, were found dead at their home in the village of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, Wales, in March. An inquest heard Mrs Bound - known as Christine - had been shot in the chest and Mr Bound was killed by head injuries. The pair were found dead just eight days after lockdown started in March. Farmer John Bound, 59, shot his own mother dead before turning the gun on himself - because he was worried about caring for his animals during lockdown Bound and mother Gwendoline Christine Bound, 80, were found dead at their home in the village of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, in Wales Their inquest heard sheep farmer Mr Bound had told relatives he was worried about lockdown restrictions. He had said he was concerned restrictions on leaving home would affect his ability to check on the welfare of his animals

Police have closed down a shisha cafe after storming inside to find around 150 people crammed together just days after the venue was hit with a £10,000 fine for Covid breaches. Kasablanca in Birmingham was filled with patrons at around 1am on Saturday despite being hit with the hefty penalty for breaking restrictions earlier this month, said West Midlands Police.   A dramatic video shows the moment police had to break open the venue's doors with tools after being refused entry. Screaming and shouting can be heard as the police enter the venue. A dramatic video shows the moment police had to break open the doors of a Birmingham shisha lounge after being refused entry Once inside, police said they found crowds inside with no social distancing measures in place.     Footage shows patrons milling past officers on their way out of the shisha lounge.  Some can be heard giggling and telling police 'We are social distancing' despite apparent evidence to the contrary.  Earlier thi

President Donald Trump railed against Fox News Channel and made fun of Fox host Laura Ingraham for wearing a mask at his Waterford Township, Michigan rally Friday.   'The crowds are much bigger, there's more enthusiasm, but Fox is the big difference,' Trump said comparing his 2016 run to this one. 'Somewhere along the line we lost Fox, but that's OK.'  The president had prefaced his statement with, 'We still have a few great ones at Fox.' The network carried Trump's full Michigan rally live, despite Democrat Joe Biden holding an event in Iowa that started shortly after.  President Donald Trump addressed a crowd at Oakland County International Airport, in Waterford Township, Michigan on Friday, where he complained about Fox News Channel and made fun of Fox News' Laura Ingraham for wearing a mask President Donald Trump railed against Fox News Channel at the Oakland County International Airport in Waterford Township, Michigan on Friday. He also made

Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds will praise NHS medics for delivering their son Wilfred and for saving the Prime Minister's life as he fought coronavirus. In their first joint television appearance, a recording for the Pride of Britain awards, they will thank frontline workers for their 'courage and dedication' during the pandemic in a broadcast on Sunday. The couple nominated nurses Jenny McGee and Luis Pitarma, two nurses who cared for Mr Johnson at St Thomas' Hospital in April, and the maternity team who delivered Wilfred later the same month.  Ms Symonds says in the video: 'You continue to provide care for all of us in the very toughest of times and it's because of you that not only is Boris still here, but that we are proud parents to our sweet baby boy. In their first joint television appearance on Sunday, Boris Johnson and his fiancée Carrie Symonds will praise NHS medics for saving the Prime Minister's life as he fought coronavirus and

Steve Cohen's $2.4 billion bid to buy the New York Mets has been approved by Major League Baseball's owners as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio, who reportedly could have vetoed the deal because of a clause contained inside the team's lease at CitiField in Queens. 'The New York City Law Department has completed its legal review of the proposed sale of the @Mets,' de Blasio tweeted Friday. 'New York City has no objections and the Mets can now proceed with the transaction.' As reported by USA Today and other outlets, a clause in the team's 2006 CitiField lease allows the New York City Mayor to deny the sale of the team to a 'prohibited person' defined as 'any person that has been convicted in a criminal proceeding for a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude.' Steve Cohen's $2.4 billion bid to buy the New York Mets has been approved by Major League Baseball's owners as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio, who reportedly could have vetoe

The route that the Nice terror attacker  took to enter Europe has been revealed - as Italian officials came under pressure to explain how and why he was released from their custody despite having no legal right to enter Europe. Brahim Aoussaoui, 21, left his family's impoverished village of Bou Hajla in Tunisia on or around September 15, according to the country's judiciary spokesman, having paid smugglers to take him to Europe. Five days later he landed with 28 other migrants on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where records show he was placed into a coronavirus quarantine centre.  On September 25, he was transferred from the centre to a quarantine ship, the Rhapsody, which set sail for the port city of Bari, on Italy's eastern coast. The ship moored offshore while the migrants waited out the quarantine, with disembarkation beginning on October 8. Aoussaoui was among those disembarked, with his fingerprints, name, and date of birth noted. Border officials also took h