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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.
Everybody President Trump pardoned on his last day in office:
Todd Boulanger â President Trump granted a full pardon to Todd Boulanger. In 2008, Mr Boulanger pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
Abel HoltzÂ
â President Trump granted a full pardon to Abel Holtz. Mr. Holtz is currently 86 years old. In 1995, he pled guilty to one count of impeding a grand jury investigation and was sentenced to 45 days in prison.
RepresentativeÂ
Rick Renzi â President Trump granted a full pardon to Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona. In 2013, Mr. Renzi was convicted of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.
19 Jan 2021
President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night that he had pardoned and commuted the sentences of 143 people in the final hours of his presidency.
The president issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations.
The list included pop culture figures including rapper Lil Wayne, who was pardoned, and Kodak Black, whose sentence was commuted.
The president also pardoned several Republicans, including former Deputy National Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee Elliott Broidy, former Rep. Duke Cunningham of California, and former Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona.
He also issued a pardon for his former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who was charged with fraud for his work on the “We Build the Wall” crowdfunding campaign fueled by Trump supporters to build a wall on the Southern border.