The Justice Department’s novel attempt to retry a Florida man whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump has ended in a plea deal.
A judge overseeing the case in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida announced the deal in the medical fraud case of Philip Esformes Thursday, saying that a plea and sentencing hearing will be set in the future.
Esformes was convicted in 2019 for his role in a billion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Trump commuted his sentence in 2020 but didn’t give him a full pardon. In ...
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