Medicare fraudster Philip Esformes pleaded guilty on Thursday to health care fraud, laying to rest a longstanding effort to prosecute him after his 20-year sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump. Esformes, previously convicted of one of the biggest Medicare frauds in 2019 for his involvement in a billion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme, pleaded guilty […]
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Nursing home operator Philip Esformes – convicted of one of the biggest Medicare frauds in history and whose 20-year sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump – was denied an appeal hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to throw out his conviction altogether. While Trump commuted Esformes’ prison sentence in December 2020, he […]
A rising tide of civil lawsuits related to deaths from Covid-19 are being filed in New York against not only top state officials, but also nursing homes, as family members seek legal recourse. According to a report in the Times-Union newspaper, these cases have proceeded slowly as pre-trial arguments have focused, in part, on whether state […]
A Republican senator is calling on the Justice Department to open an investigation into the “egregious and flagrant conditions” at the Woodland Behavioral and Nursing Center, a nursing home that has made national headlines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, urging […]
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