| Financial services firm in Fidentia probe
Cape Town - Financial services company Momentum has launched an investigation because a company in which it is the majority shareholder has been embroiled in the Fidentia scandal. Questions were raised when it was revealed that Lekana Employee Benefit Solutions, controlled by a 65% Momentum-owned shareholding, had a secret agreement with Living Hands, the umbrella trust company owned by Fidentia. The Cape High Court ruled last week that Fidentia be placed under provisional curatorship after financial investigators discovered that the company could not account for hundreds of millions of rands, invested mostly by the widows and orphans of miners. The agreement was exposed by Personal Finance and showed that Lekana Employee Benefit Solutionswould be paid a 0.35 percent introductory fee by Living Hands for any new business introduced in a year, up to R250 million.
Butz to play "Chicken" for Fox
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz has signed on to star in Fox's comedy pilot "Playing Chicken," in which he'll portray a loudmouthed conservative. "Chicken" revolves around Jake (Butz) and his brother Tim, an intellectual lefty, who are forced to live together after an accident leaves Jake wheelchair-bound. Broadway star Butz won a Tony in 2005 for his role in "Dirty Little Scoundrels." .
Group Calls for Tighter State Rules on Health-Aide Hiring
An organization that represents nursing homes and health-care agencies is calling for stricter state regulations on hiring people with criminal records following a WRAL story about a woman victimized by a health-care home worker.WRAL reported Wednesday about the arrest of Jeanette Wright, 53, on charges she opened credit card accounts using the personal information of Mattie Spruill, a 71-year-old woman for whom she cared while working for Carolina Staffing and Home Health Inc.After Wright's arrest, WRAL was able to find out that she has been convicted of similar crimes and has served jail time. Her criminal record is nearly a dozen pages long and includes charges of financial card fraud, credit card theft, shoplifting, larceny, breaking and entering, forgery and larceny."She should have never been allowed to work in the in-home care industry or any industry like a nursing home or assisted living," said Tim Rogers, chief executive officer of the Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina, an association representing home-care agencies.
Two Injured In Richmond Senior Complex Fire
A two-alarm fire broke out early Tuesday at a Richmond senior citizen's housing complex, completely destroying one apartment and sending two residents to the hospital for smoke inhalation. Richmond Fire Chief Michael Banks said the fire began at 8:03 a.m. in a sixth floor apartment of Hacienda Apartments, located at 1300 Roosevelt Ave. It was contained by about 8:20 a.m. Residents on the first five floors were instructed to shelter-in-place while firefighters got the blaze under control because many of them have trouble walking, Banks said. Of the 150 units in the building, 140 were occupied. The apartment where the fire started suffered heavy fire damage and other apartments on the sixth floor may have suffered smoke damage. At least one resident, a woman who had been living in the apartment where the fire started, has been displaced.
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