melton, how are you doing? never know what you're going to get. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you're like bill cosby. ♪ >> walk out this way. there's a lot of us getting sentenced today! >> i'm ready to get it over with. >> it's been nearly a year since they've seen each other and now it's time for the four men convicted of several heinous crimes that shocked the city of grand rapids to receive their sentences. the charges are home invasion, armed robbery and criminal sexual conduct. the victim of the latter crime is a female college student. >> rederick melton. >> people versus brandon towns. people versus james hodges, jr. people versus dorian jones. >> for the record we have all four defendants with their respective counsel. mr. becker? >> these cases are ready for sentencing at this point in time and i know there is a victim that wishes to address the court. >> i'll hear from the victim first, please. >> you do not theed to state your name. go ahead, please. >> this whole crime has honestly been the hardest struggle i've ever b

lance cooper is the meltons' lawyer. >> the meltons settled their case with g.m., believing g.m.nothing about the ignition switch design change. they now know they were lied to. >> reporter: cooper says it is his belief degiorgio perjured himself so the melton settlement should be thrown out. refiling a case like this is a big risk. do you think it will pay off? >> well, it's a big risk, but to the meltons, there's no financial incentive to do this. it's simply to get at the truth. >> reporter: g.m. issued this response this afternoon: g.m. says it will not reopen the case. scott, at this point, it's up to a judge. >> pelley: jeff glor in our atlanta newsroom, jeff, thank you. a study today in the ""journal of the american medical association" "says that medicare is spending a lot of money on unnecessary procedures. 42% of medicare patients had procedures deemed low value, including prostate cancer screening for men beyond the recommended age. the study says all of this adds up to $8.5 billion wasted each year. a facelift for an obelisk. that story is next avo: waves don't care w

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a new lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the melton family.attorney lanz cooper filed run of the original lawsuits on behalf of the daughter who died in a 2005 chevy cobalt. now they have filed a new lawsuit. the new lawsuit accuses general motors of concealing evidence. the attorney basically said, look, people inside general motors. we want to find out who lied about this, his words, not mine, planning on deposing a number of people at general motors and hoping to include ceo mary barra who said she knew nothing of this recall until it was brought to her attention later this year. that's the latest on the faulty gm ignition switch. back to you >> you do have a special coming up on gm this weekend, is that right? >> and we're going to look at this. failure to recall, investigating gm and at the party of the recall is a decision made by a form former engineer, the decision was brought up at the congressional hearings and according to lance cooper, i want to talk to giorgio again and other executives. that's what the attorney for the melton fam

and it took the meltons's attorney sos, hey, this is what happened.d out what was done and more importantly what was not done by general motors and the federal government. >> enforcement. >> for sure. >> all right. 10:00 on sunday night. >> 10:00 eastern. >> what happens if you're in the middle of the country? >> time zone learned to think an hour behind everybody else. >> or ahead. >> in your view, they are about an hour slower on most issues in the middle -- definitely. up next, a million dollar vacation home. dolly helps you get ready for summer. great properties made for relaxing and entertaining. find out what goes on behind the scenes at "squawk box". only certain things can we really let out. interpreting tepper. was it fricking, frigging or freaking? and my new murse. i have two words, indiana jones. squawk.cnbc.com. >> look at him. >>> cnbc million dollar home competition is back. seven homes. which is the best bang for your buck. since we are just weeks away from the summer season, all the homes are located in popular summer vacation destina

ken and beth melton accuse gm of fraud by concealing crucial evidence at trial and allowing a companyresentative to lie under oath. they claim a lead design engineer on the chevy cobalt repeatedly testified he didn't know about any changes to the switches. that the suit says the disclosures shows assertions to be false. a gm spokesman says the company didn't act improperly in the original lawsuit. >>> rand paul has threatened to slow approval of three of president obama's fed nominees unless lawmakers vote on a gop bill to open monetary policy decisions decisions to congressional audits. all three are certain to be confirmed but with the senate's tight schedule before the memorial day recess, it is possible the fed board could drop from seven to three members when fed governor jeremy stein steps down this month. we'll see what happens. >>> still to come, as the eu expands sanctions against russia, how will the measures impact yaurp's gas supply? >> we speak first to the ceo of austria's omv who recently signed a deal despite sanctions. the latest, after this break. ♪ ♪ drivers want to

the meltons settled for an undisclosed fund.the automaker of fraud. >> facebook says it may consider opening a sales off in mainland china to provide support to local advertisers to reach customers overseas. the company was exploring ways to provide even more support locally but would not say how soon it plans to be in china. they currently have a hong kong sales office with a staff of 30 or 40 that deal with advertisers locally in mainland china. >> all right. i feel bad for that family. if you settle with the company, doesn't the company -- doesn't it settle any and all claims. apparently it doesn't. if they're foggy to fraud. >> the company would have to think defensively about could we uncover any other issues relating to this incident. at the time maybe they thought this was an unfortunate situation. we have identified very in a finite way what our risk is in moving forward. these new documents uncovered, maybe they couldn't anticipate what the risk would be. >> you don't own a car. and i want you to buy a tesla. and then i

melton friedman once said inflation is always in everywhere, and today we see that the united statesfood costs may go up as much as 3.5% this year and that is the highest potential rate in the last, i think three years. in this morning's "wall street journal," allen meltzer, a distinguished federal reserve historian, writes the fed focus is far too much attention on distracting -- on distracting monthly and quarterly data, while ignoring the long-term effects of money growth. beyond the pure inflationary concerns, he says somewhat side effects of the fed policies have ugly consequences. one of worst is the ultralow interest rates for retired persons to take, it forces them to take substantially greater risks than bank cds, and that many of them relied on in the past. he says that -- goes on to say, this ends usually in tears for a lot of people. and we see people have planned on retirement and simply based on historic rates and they're just not there for them anymore, is maintaining an extraordinarily low interest rate for a decade creating market distortions that will have long-term