Trump pardonee defrauded MILLIONS from Medicare that was intended to be used for senior citizens

[Dennis Donovan]

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This person Trump released from prison this week deserves more press coverage- she had defrauded MILLIONS of $ from Medicare that was intended to be used for our senior citizens: Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-gets-35-year-prison-sentence-in-200-million-medicare-fraud/1887688/
Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud
Owner of Miami mental health care company sentenced in scheme.

8:15 AM - Feb 20, 2020

Woman Gets 35-Year Prison Sentence in $200 Million Medicare Fraud

The owner of a Miami-area mental health care company will be spending the next 35 years behind bars after she was sentenced in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday.

Judith Negron, 40, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King, who also ordered her to pay over $87 million in restitution.

Negron, along with two other owners and executives with American Therapeutic Corporation, was arrested in October 2010 in the scheme that prosecutors said billed Medicare for mental health treatments that patients didn't need.

Prosecutors said dating back to 2002, Negron and fellow owners Lawrence S. Duran and Marianella Valera paid bribes and kickbacks to owners and operators of assisted living facilities and halfway houses and to patient brokers in exchange for delivering ineligible patients to their facilities.

Negron was found guilty of 24 felony counts in August, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering and structuring to avoid reporting requirements.

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The Presidential Pardon will have to be reformed after this. Or the power removed.

[gratuitous]

1. Trump doesn't think fraud is a crime

Seems rather obvious.

[bluedigger]

2. Does anyone know if she ever paid restitution, or does she just keep the loot?

[BSdetect]

3. If you thieve and steal GO BIGLY

[Midnight Writer]

8. Exactly. Steal a little, you are a thief. Steal a lot, you are a shrewd business person.

[onethatcares]

4. she'll probably get a job

in pRickscotts office as an ethics manager.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. trumPutin may put her in charge of Medicare

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Mr. Sparkle]

7. K&R!