At the end of President Donald Trump's presidency in January of 2021, I reported how Trump not only did not keep his promise to "drain the swamp" when he became president in 2016, but that he proved that he was part of that very swamp based on who he pardoned in his last days in office. On his last day in office, Trump pardoned Israeli colonel Aviem Sella, the convicted handler of US-born Jewish-American intelligence analyst and traitor Jonathan Pollard, who stole US military secrets and sold them to Israel. Many of Trump's supporters were hoping that he was going to pardon two whistleblowers who have risked their lives to reveal the workings of the deep state, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. In addition to not pardoning Edward Snowden and Julian Assange nor those arrested in the January 6th entrance to the U.S. Capitol, Trump pardoned several Big Pharma executives who had been convicted of medical fraud. And now we have reports that President Trump and his perso
From the Guardian blurb on YouTube.com:
Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president ‘asked us to do’ and that she had been ‘displaying my patriotism’ in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. ‘I’m facing a prison sentence,’ she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. ‘I do not deserve that’
Ed. comment: you should have practiced fraud
On his way out of office, former President Donald Trump issued pardons to at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who were convicted in huge Medicare swindles that prosecutors said often harmed or endangered elderly and infirm patients while fleecing taxpayers.
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At the last minute, former President Donald Trump granted pardons to several individuals convicted in huge Medicare swindles that prosecutors said often harmed or endangered elderly and infirm patients while fleecing taxpayers.
“These aren’t just technical financial crimes. These were major, major crimes,” said Louis Saccoccio, chief executive officer of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, an advocacy group.
Trump’s pardons included health care executives
By Fred Schulte
Kaiser Health News/TNS
At the last minute, President Donald Trump granted pardons to several individuals convicted in huge Medicare swindles that prosecutors alleged often harmed or endangered elderly and infirm patients while fleecing taxpayers.
“These aren’t just technical financial crimes. These were major, major crimes,” said Louis Saccoccio, chief executive officer of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, an advocacy group.
The list of some 200 Trump pardons or commutations, most issued as he vacated the White House this week, included at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who ran discredited health care enterprises, from nursing homes to pain clinics. One is a former doctor and California hospital owner embroiled in a massive workers’ compensation kickback scheme that prosecutors alleged prompted more than 14,000 dubious spinal surgeries. Another was in prison after prosecuto