Detroit, Michigan - A health care CEO pleaded guilty Monday to a superseding indictment as part of an investigation into a $300 million health care fraud scheme that involved the distribution of over 6.6 million dosage units of controlled substances and the administration of medically unnecessary injections that resulted in patient harm. 

Long Island, New York - An individual who defied court orders by operating a multimillion mass-mailing fraud scheme pleaded guilty on Friday, in federal court on Long Island before a magistrate judge, the Department of Justice announced.

San Francisco, California - Announced by California and France at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, the Global Soil Health Challenge calls on national and sub-national governments (like Baja California) to include ambitious programs of action on soil health in their Nationally Determined Contributions submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2020, and in sub-national climate initiatives as part of broader climate action plans.

New York - A former agent of Colombia’s now disbanded intelligence agency, the Administrative Security Department or Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS), was arrested on immigration violations October 5 by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations New York office.

Washington, DC - On October 13, Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan met in Manama with representatives from various Bahraini civil and religious organizations for a discussion on tolerance and religious freedom.

Washington, DC - In the interest of keeping things light on a Friday, let’s turn our attention to a fascinating story that was first reported on by ZDNet’s Catalin Cimpanu: a Russian-speaking grey-hat hacker has been breaking into people’s MikroTik routers and patching them so they won’t be exploited by crypto-miners and other kind of digital ne’er-do-wells.