The charges against Philip Esformes relate to what the Justice Department described as a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.

Key Points

  • Convicted Medicare fraudster Philip Esformes pleaded guilty to a criminal charge as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors.
  • In 2020, then-President Donald Trump commuted Esformes’ 20-year prison sentence on charges related to what the Justice Department described as a massive Medicare fraud scheme.
  • The DOJ wanted to re-try the Florida nursing home owner on six criminal counts that his original jury failed to reach a verdict on.
  • @Everythingispenguins
    19•7 months ago

    Wait so he committed fraud and was convicted on some counts. Then had his sentence commuted. Okay got all that down. Now he has pled guilty to a few more counts that he was never convicted on before. Okay, still tracking. So he is going to have to pay some more fines or go back to jail great.

    …was sentenced to time served, meaning he will spend no additional time in jail,… He will face no further restrictions or fines.

    Wait, what? Am I confused, is the DOJ confused? I am definitely confused.

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    • @dogslayeggs
      1•7 months ago

      It’s a plea deal. He might be informing on other people, or maybe the DOJ didn’t feel like spending the money to retry him.

      • @Everythingispenguins
        1•7 months ago

        So? A plea deal is still a conviction. The previous sentence was commuted not pardoned so he still has a record. Adding one charge to the record does nothing. What did the DOJ get out of the deal? Usually plea deals come with some kind of concession from the defense. The article said nothing about an agreement to testify. If he had that card he would have played it before. Plus he is the big fish, who would this information be on? This all seems very weird and pointless.