Florida businessman convicted of orchestrating $1BILLION Medicare fraud scheme spent New Year's Eve as a free man dancing at his daughter's wedding days after Trump commuted his 20-year prison sentence citing his 'declining health'
Daily Mail
January 23, 2021
A Florida businessman convicted of orchestrating a $1billion Medicare fraud scheme, spent New Year's Eve as a free man and dancing at his daughter's wedding, days after he was pardoned by President Trump.
Philip Esformes, 52, was included in Trump's long list of pardons and commutations granted to more than 200 convicts in the final days of his presidency.
The healthcare executive was convicted in 2019
on 20 criminal counts in what prosecutors described as one of the
biggest Medicare fraud cases in US history. Yet, Esformes ultimately
served just four of a 20-year prison sentence after he was granted a
commutation on December 22.
The president at the time claimed the move had been supported by a number of former attorneys general and said Esformes was declining in health.
Esformes had operated a network of nursing homes and assisted living
facilities in South Florida and was found guilty of paying kickbacks and
bribes to doctors and administrators so they would refer patients to
his businesses.
Just days after his release, Esformes
was photographed dancing at his daughter Serena's wedding held
in the backyard of his multimillion-dollar Miami Beach home, the New
York Times reported.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This commutation is rotten to the core. It's worse than Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
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