Trump Pardons a Handful of Physicians on His Way Out
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WellCare executives among Donald Trump pardons - State of Reform
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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.