President Biden won’t cough up major federal assistance to help New York City address the migrant crisis until after the 2024 presidential election, a prominent lawyer with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams’ camp claimed Wednesday.
Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala, appearing on the 770 WABC’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning” radio show, said a City Hall official relayed to him that the White House told Adams to suck it up until Biden is re-elected.
“I don’t think I’m betraying any confidences… They were on their hands and knees behind closed doors begging,” said Aidala, who is particularly close to Adams’ confidante and former chief of staff Frank Carone.
“And basically the word they got back was, `Hang on for a year. If Biden gets re-elected, he will cut you a check for a lot of money. But we’re not doing it until after the presidential election,,'” said Aidala.
“They’re going to Albany asking for help. They’re going to DC asking for help. They get bupkus.”
President Biden won’t cough up major federal assistance to help New York City address the migrant crisis until after the 2024 presidential election, according to a prominent attorney with ties to Mayor Eric Adams.AP
Adams on Wednesday said the city’s costs to aid the migrants could swell to $12 billion over three years
The city has opened 194 sites, including 13 humanitarian relief centers — which are operated by the public hospital system — to accommodate the asylum-seekers.
Nearly 100,000 migrants, including 57,300 currently in the shelter system, have been processed in the Big Apple.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature this year delivered $1 billion in emergency assistance to the city to shelter migrants.
The governor also offered the use of state facilities as encampments to house migrants — including Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala, appearing on the 770 WABC’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning” radio show, said a City Hall official relayed to him that the White House told Adams to suck it up until Biden is re-elected.Robert Miller
But Hochul has also been accused of having a slow-footed response to the crisis, which she disputes.
The governor said this week the state will likely kick in another $1 billion in funds next year to handle the unrelenting flow of migrants coming from the Mexican border.
Meanwhile, Aidala said a high ranking City Hall official told him the city is struggling to even find enough contractors to run the growing number of emergency migrant facilities.
“I was with a very high ranking official yesterday from City Hall, who spoke genuinely to me and said, `We’re at wit’s end. The issue is not just finding places for these people. But when we find places for people we can’t find anyone to run the thing,'” Aidala said.
The city has opened 194 sites, including 13 humanitarian relief centers — which are operated by the public hospital system — to accommodate the asylum-seekers.Robert Miller He said he was told the migrant crisis “has almost broken the [Adams] administration because it is part of every conversation of everything they’re doing.”
The mayor and White House had no immediate comment.
A Massachusetts couple suing the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) say they were “shocked” when they were first informed of the reason their foster application was denied.
Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke, both devout Catholics, filed a federal lawsuit this week with the help of religious liberty group Becket Law, claiming that the state restricted them from fostering children due to their adherence to Catholic teachings on gender, sexuality and marriage.
The couple said the state listed only one reason for denying their foster application, which was that they “would not be affirming to a child who identified as LGBTQIA.”
Discussing their lawsuit on “The Story” Wednesday, the Burkes said they are taking the issue to court because it represents a larger problem surrounding the state’s allowance to decline to issue foster licenses to religious applicants.
“We believe the reason we were rejected is because we were very vocal in the fact that we are practicing Catholics, very traditional Catholics, and we stand firm in the church’s beliefs on traditional marriage and sexuality. And that was pretty clear in their reasoning,” Kitty told Martha MacCallum.
Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that the state restricted them from fostering children due to their adherence to Catholic teachings on gender, sexuality and marriage.FOX News
“We were absolutely shocked when we got the decision,” she added. “The real issue at stake here is whether or not religious families should be allowed to foster and adopt here in the state of Massachusetts… Massachusetts’ own law says all people of faith are allowed to participate in society.”
Kitty’s husband Mike said he was told that they would not be permitted to foster a child because they “didn’t follow the ‘LGBTQ+ policies of the state.’”
“If you look into it further, you can see they match it up with our Catholic faith,” he said.
Lori Windham, lawyer and senior counsel at religious liberty group Becket Law, is representing the couple for the lawsuit,FOX News
Mike said he informed the department that if he had a child who wanted to identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, he would “love that child no matter [what]” regardless of his religious beliefs.
“One of the things of our Catholic faith is we love one another as God has loved us. I love every person, do I agree with it? No. It’s [a matter of] hate the sin not the sinner. I would love that child no matter [what]. Just like my mother loved me whenever I did something wrong,” he said.
In a statement released earlier this week, the couple described their experience with the lengthy and arduous foster process, which involved “months of interviews and training.”
They were finally “on the verge of finally becoming parents” and welcoming a child into their home following years of “heartbreak” with infetility struggles when they were informed their application had been denied.
“We were absolutely devastated to learn that Massachusetts would rather children sleep in the hallways of hospitals than let us welcome children in need into our home,” they said.
The lawsuit states that as faithful Catholics, “the Burkes believe that all children should be loved and supported, and they would never reject a child placed in their home. They also believe that children should not undergo procedures that attempt to change their God-given sex, and they uphold Catholic beliefs about marriage and sexuality.”
Fox News reached out to the Massachusets Health and Human Services and Massachusetts Department of Children & Families for comment, but neither immediately responded.
The couple’s attorney Lori Windham, who joined them in the Fox News interview, said the state can’t afford to exclude religious families from the foster system when they are already grappling with a serious shortage of available foster homes as a result of the pandemic.
“Massachusetts has a shortage of loving homes to welcome, foster and adopted children,” Windham said. “They have hundreds of children who are waiting for homes today. What’s so disturbing about this is they [if] are excluding faithful Catholics like Mike and Kitty. They would also be by the same standard excluding people from other faiths who have beliefs about marriage and sexuality and gender. They can’t afford to do that when they have so many children who are in need of homes right now. What they have said to Mike and Kitty is we won’t allow any child to be placed in your home.”
Kitty’s husband Mike said he was told that they would not be permitted to foster a child because they “didn’t follow the ‘LGBTQ+ policies of the state.’”FOX News
The lawsuit includes a copy of the letter the Burkes received notifying them that their application had been denied.
The letter states that in order to be licensed as a foster or adoptive parent, the applicant must “promote the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of a child placed in his or her care, including supporting and respecting a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The lawsuit seeks to prohibit Massachusetts from using LGBTQ accommodations to decline to issue foster licenses to religious applicants.
It further seeks that the Burkes’ application be granted and that they receive “nominal and compensatory damages” from the defendants.
The suit names Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families Linda Spears, and others as defendants.
Presented initial camonsertib-PARPi combination Phase 1/2 clinical data at AACR 2023 demonstrating durable clinical benefit across tumor types, genomic alterations, PARPi choice or platinum resistance
Roche has included a camonsertib-based arm in its Phase 2 TAPISTRY study and its Phase 1/2 Morpheus Lung study of multiple combinations in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Reported clinical proof of concept for lunresertib (RP-6306) in June 2023 including achievement of monotherapy safety and tolerability primary endpoints and identification of two proposed dose/schedules
Presented early lunresertib combination response data in June 2023, and expects to present further Phase 1 MYTHIC Module 2 data at a medical conference in the fourth quarter of this year
Granted FDA Fast Track designation for lunresertib in combination with camonsertib for the treatment of adult patients with CCNE1 amplified, or FBXW7 or PPP2R1A mutated endometrial cancer in August
Initiated IND-enabling studies for newly designated Polθ inhibitor RP-3467
Biotech firm Amyris Inc on Wednesday said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a U.S. court and is planning to sell its consumer brands to improve the company's liquidity position.
Amyris said it has secured a $190 million financing commitment to support day-to-day operations, adding that its entities outside the U.S. are not included in the bankruptcy proceedings.
In a filing with the Delaware bankruptcy court, the company listed estimated assets in the range of $500 million to $1 billion and liabilities in the range of $1 billon to $10 billion.
"Restructuring is intended to improve the Company's cost structure, capital structure, and liquidity position while streamlining Amyris' business portfolio to focus on its core competencies in R&D...," the company said.
In June, Amyris said it was cutting jobs to reduce costs and appointed Han Kieftenbeld as new interim CEO, following the resignation of John Melo.
Amyris had also initiated a "strategic transformation program" in June and secured a term loan facility of up to $50 million.
Revenue grew 18% year-over-year to a record $35.9 million; telehealth net revenues increased 11% versus the first quarter of 2023.
Achieved positive free cash flow, ahead of guidance.
Adjusted EBITDA increased to $1.7 million in the second quarter 2023 from an adjusted EBITDA loss of $6.9 million in the year-ago period.
Launched a comprehensive Weight Management program offering and onboarded over 5,000 new patient subscribers to date; the Weight Management program is expected to be substantially accretive beginning in 2024.
Raised 2023 revenue guidance to $146 million to $152 million, reflecting early success with the Weight Management program.
Conference call begins at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time today
Financial Guidance
For the third quarter of 2023, the Company expects:
Revenue to be between $37.5 million and $38.5 million.
Adjusted EBITDA to be between $2.5 million and $3.5 million.
For the full year 2023, the Company expects:
Revenue to be between $146 million and $152 million.
Adjusted EBITDA to be between $10 and $13 million.
Excluding the launch of the Weight Management program, revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for 2023 would be within the previously stated guidance ranges of $140 million to $150 million for revenue and $12 million to $18 million for adjusted EBITDA. The company’s preliminary estimates suggest its new Weight Management business could be substantially accretive to 2024 and beyond results.
Conference Call
LifeMD’s management will host a conference call today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to discuss the Company’s financial results and outlook, and answer questions. Details for the call are as follows:
Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Citius" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CTXR), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of first-in-class critical care products, today announced that it has reached an important milestone in its clinical trial for Mino-Lok®, an antibiotic lock solution to salvage catheters in patients with catheter-related bloodstream infections. Pending confirmation from an adjudication committee of independent reviewers, the Company believes all 92 events required to complete the trial have been achieved. Several patients remain in active treatment, which may result in additional events.
"This is a significant milestone for Citius as we approach completion of the Phase 3 Mino-Lok trial. As we complete therapy for patients in active treatment, we will continue to enroll patients in the pipeline and initiate shutdown activities," stated Leonard Mazur, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citius.
