Center for COVID Control office searched by FBI

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Center for COVID Control office searched by FBI

CHICAGO – The FBI on Saturday searched the headquarters of a nationwide string of coronavirus testing sites known as the Center for COVID Control.

The company and its main lab, which has been reimbursed more than $124 million from the federal government for coronavirus testing, are under investigation by state and federal officials. The company and lab are registered at the same address in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

“The FBI was conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity in Rolling Meadows yesterday,” Siobhan Johnson, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Chicago office, told USA TODAY Sunday.

A Center for COVID Control spokesperson did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Asked about the law enforcement activity, Annie Thompson, a spokesperson for the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, said the attorney general “is absolutely committed to protecting residents from those who attempt to profit off of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.”

“We are working with the

Holiday Scam Warning from the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office

Nashville- The Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is urging consumers to beware of scammers looking to steal money and personal information over the holidays.

These are the most common scams reported to the Attorney General’s Office this fall:

Online Purchase Scams – Websites, social media advertisements, and marketplace postings entice purchasers with popular products at bargain prices. However, the products are either never received or are inferior to what was advertised.

Remodeling Contractor Scams – Payment is collected but the work is never done, and the “contractor” disappears.

Online Pet Purchase Scam – The “seller” sends pictures of animals copied from legitimate breeder sites. After collecting payment, the “seller” makes excuses about delays and charges extra fees.

Counterfeit Check Scam – A transaction in which a payment by check turns out to be more than the price of the item. The seller is asked

Macy’s CEO, office retail outlet veteran, fights the Amazon potential

The entrances at Macy’s are decorated with Christmas decorations on December 04, 2020 in New York Metropolis.

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As Macy’s prepares to launch its third quarter earnings on Nov. 18 in advance of retail’s most important season, the most pressing in the litany of investor thoughts will be: Has Macy’s capacity to construct a dot-com organization inside of a legacy brick-and-mortar basis achieved its limit?

Macy’s, which has said its digital profits will hit $10 billion in 2023, up from $7.6 billion in 2020, will probable say no. But provided that Macy’s dotcom profits have been outpacing same-keep revenues for several years — and that the company operates 788 outlets across its portfolio — begs yet another dilemma: Is Macy’s present-day administration group, led by the “quintessential department store executive,” as one retail trader a short while ago characterized Macy’s CEO Jeff

I Went Into an Office for the First Time in 15 Months

I worked in a WeWork for a day, my first in-office experience since March 2020.
I’m convinced that working in an office periodically could break up the monotony of pandemic-era work life.
Many have voiced support for the hybrid work approach, or dividing time between the home and the office.

I remember the last eerie day I was in Business Insider’s San Francisco WeWork office on March 11, 2020.

When the shelter-in-place order went into effect 6 days later, I thought it would be weeks before I saw the inside of an office again. Instead, it’s been 15 months, a blurringly long period of isolation, hyper-introspection, anxiety, and monotony.

As Melissa Fay Greene wrote in The Atlantic recently, working from home has left many “dazed by the sameness of their days.”

The Delta variant is spreading, but a grand return to the office is still underway

Washington Football Team trademark request refused by US patent office

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The Washington Soccer Staff’s ask for to trademark its title was refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office environment on Friday, in accordance to reports.

The business office said trademarks presented for the “Washington Soccer Club” to a gentleman named Philip McCauley in 2015 could cause confusion between buyers, in accordance to Athletics Illustrated. In addition, the business claimed the name is problematically generic.

“Customers would be puzzled, mistaken, or deceived as to the professional source of the goods and/or expert services of the events,” the patent business said Friday of its refusal, SI documented.

The NFL staff 1st applied for the trademark in July 2020 immediately after determining to clear away “Redskins” from its identify, which many considered offensive. The team’s company sponsors were being stated to be making