Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Donald Trump Freed a Convicted Medicare Fraudster. The Justice Department Wants Him Back. – Mother Jones

In any case, Trump commuted Esformes' sentence and ordered his release in December 2020—though the conviction remained intact, as did a $44.2 million restitution and forfeiture order… 

The clemency decision was "a kick in the teeth," Paul Pelletier, a former federal prosecutor who supervised the early stages of the Esformes investigation, told the Times. "It sends the wrong message to crooks," Pelletier, now in private practice, told me. "You make enough money, you can fucking buy your way out of jail. I find it appalling."…

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