Alanna Durkin Richer

Associated Press

Michelle Janavs leaves federal court, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Boston, after being sentenced to five months in prison for trying to cheat and bribe her daughters' way into college as part of a nationwide college cheating scam.

Hot Pockets Heir Gets Prison for College Scam

She apologized for abandoning her moral compass.

In this Sept. 13, 2018 file image from video provided by WCVB in Boston, flames consume the roof of a home following an explosion in Lawrence, Mass.

Utility to Plead Guilty to Federal Charges

The company said in an emailed statement that it takes full responsibility for the disaster.

Harvard University professor Charles Lieber is surrounded by reporters as he leaves the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Leiber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology, with lying to officials about his involvement with a Chinese government-run recruitment program through which he received tens of thousands of dollars.

Professor with Hidden Links

He received $50,000 per month and about $150,000 in living expenses.

In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, the statue of John Harvard sits in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, charged Harvard University professor Charles Leiber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology, with lying to officials about his involvement with a Chinese government-run recruitment program through which he received tens of thousands of dollars.

Harvard Professor Hid China Ties, Payments

He is tied to a program designed to lure people with knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China.

In this Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston. On Thursday, May 2, 2019, Kapoor was found guilty in a scheme to bribe doctors to boost sales of a highly addictive fentanyl spray meant for cancer patients with severe pain.

Exec Guilty of Bribing Docs

Some of the sensational evidence included a video of employees rapping around an executive dressed as a giant bottle of the powerful spray Subsys.

This still image from a 2015 video presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in federal court in Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, shows a scene from a rap video made to motivate Insys Therapeutics sales representatives to get doctors to prescribe higher doses of the company's highly addictive fentanyl spray. Company founder John Kapoor and four other former executives are charged with scheming to pay bribes and kickbacks to physicians to induce them to prescribe higher doses. Kapoor and the other executives have denied all wrongdoing.

Opioid Maker Raps to Push Fentanyl

The video was shown during a national sales meeting in 2015 to encourage employees to talk doctors into prescribing higher doses, prosecutors said.

Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

Drug Founder Accused of Bribing Doctors

He and others are accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to boost sales for a drug for cancer patients.

Norfolk Southern employees wait down the road to be let into work, as the company placed a hold on entering the railyard, after the shooting at FreightCar America Tuesday morning, Oct. 25, 2016. Police say a man fatally shot someone and wounded several others inside FreightCar America, a rail car manufacturing company, before apparently killing himself.

2 Dead After Plant Shooting

Officers received a call of shots fired at 6:02 a.m. Tuesday and arrived two minutes later. But by that time, the perpetrator had fired 10 rounds.