The Epoch Times By Matthew Vadum
The conviction of Philip Esformes of Florida in a record-breaking Medicare fraud will be allowed to stand.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Medicare fraud appeal of former healthcare executive Philip Esformes, whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.
The prosecution involved what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) described as the âlargest health care fraud scheme ever chargedâ by the agency.
The Supreme Court rejected the petition for certiorari, or review, in Esformes v. United States in an unsigned order on Dec. 11. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision. At least four of the nine justices have to vote for a petition for it to advance to the oral argument stage.
The case received media attention earlier this year because the Biden administration announced it would retry Mr. Esformes on several hung counts on which the jury deadlocked. The re-prosecution was criticized by legal experts.
Convicted in a healthcare fraud scheme, Mr. Esformes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019.
In December 2020, President Trump commuted to time served the sentence of Mr. Esformes who had been behind bars since he was arrested in 2016. Trump did not, however, pardon him for the hung counts, nor did he relieve him of the burden of paying millions of dollars in restitution and complying with an order of three years of supervised release…
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