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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 arent 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 last 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 prosecutors accused him of ripping off more than $1 billion from Medicare and Medicaid through nursing homes and other senior care facilities, among the largest frauds in U.S. history.
All of us are shaking our heads with these insurance fraud criminals just walking free, said Matthew Smith, executive director of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. The White House argued all deserved a second chance. One man was said to have devoted himself to prayer, while another planned to resume charity work or other community service. Others won clemency at the request of prominent Republican ex-attorneys general or others who argued their crimes were victimless or said critical errors by prosecutors had led to improper convictions.
Read more: https://ctmirror.org/2021/01/23/trumps-pardons-included-health-care-execs-behind-massive-fraud/
Duppers
(28,120 posts)Unbelievable!! $1 Billion in fraudulent claims!! & All those bogus operations.
The pardons cannot apply to *future crimes,* correct?
Sorry, I'm not up-to-date on these rulings.
TexasTowelie
(112,151 posts)I believe that I posted one or two threads about it in the Florida Group.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)And that they'll more than likely commit more crimes, as most criminals do.
And wonder how much tRump was paid to let them off, because we know he was.
Thanks, TT.
malaise
(268,968 posts)Healthcare Fraud - and so was he.
Go figure.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)na
secondwind
(16,903 posts)and give him kickbacks.