Florida businessman convicted of $1BILLION Medicare fraud spent NYE dancing at his daughter s wedding days after Trump commuted his 20-year prison sentence citing his declining health
Philip Esformes was among the slew of convicts pardoned by President Trump in the final days of his presidency
Esformes, 51, was convicted on 20 criminal counts in a $1billion Medicare fraud scheme in 2019
The healthcare executive was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only served 4
White House claimed the move had been supported by a number of former attorneys general and said Esformes is in declining health
Just days after his release, Esformes spent New Year s Eve dancing at his daughter Serena s wedding held in his backyard
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Trump s Final Pardons Erase High-Profile Health Convictions
Law360 (January 20, 2021, 10:18 PM EST) Now-former President Donald Trump s last-minute clemency actions included several pardons in health care criminal cases, including a former InterMune Inc. CEO and former executives of WellCare HealthCare Plans Inc. Here, Law360 breaks down the pardons.
Former InterMune Inc. CEO Scott Harkonen
Trump spent his final hours in office granting a wave of clemency, including Scott Harkonen, the former CEO of biotechnology company InterMune who was convicted of wire fraud.
Harkonen was convicted in September 2009 after allegedly making false statements about the effectiveness of the San Francisco Bay Area-based company s lung disease drug Actimmune. Harkonen was sentenced to six months of.
Albert Pirro had been among those expected to be on the list issued in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But when he was not, his ex-wife lobbied Trump directly.
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Among the more than 140 people receiving pardons or having their sentences commuted by President Trump on his last day in office were several with healthcare ties, including practitioners.
Paul Behrens, Thaddeus Bereday,
Peter Clay,
Todd Farha, William Kale
Trump pardoned the five former executives of WellCare Health Plans, who were found guilty of defrauding Florida s Medicaid program. The defendants in this case falsely and fraudulently schemed to submit inflated expenditure information in the company s annual reports . in order to reduce the WellCare HMOs contractual payback obligations for behavioral health care services, the Justice Department said.
The White House labeled their case a case study in overcriminalization.. Notably, there was no evidence that any of the individuals were motivated by greed.