Posted on 08/13/2022 9:23:55 AM PDT by lowbridge
A highly unusual move by the Justice Department to retry Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes on health-care fraud criminal charges after then-President Donald Trump commuted his 20-year prison sentence is headed to an appeals court hearing as defense lawyers suggest prosecutors are motivated by anger at Trump.
"The situation is entirely unique because the actions of the prosecutors here are incredibly outrageous," said Joe Tacopina, a leading New York criminal defense attorney.
"There's no question in my mind that the [Justice Department's] flagrant disregard of President Trump's clemency order is motivated by acrimony towards him," said Tacopina.
Tacopina is not representing Esformes in the case. But he is assisting Esformes' new team from the Reed Smith law firm in preparing for the federal appeals court hearing next month in Miami.
He said prosecutors are engaged in an "obvious vendetta" against the former president for letting Esformes out of prison after a years-long criminal case.
"And if there's any question about that, what the prosecution is doing here against Mr. Esformes is unprecedented," Tacopina said. "He's clearly a political casualty of partisan games."
The Justice Department and a spokeswoman for the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case, did not respond to requests for comment on those claims.
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So, no charges against Mario Komo for stuffing covid infected people into nursing homes? Yeah, I know. Double standards.
Open sedition by the coupsters.
Unbelievable. Or at least, it should be.
Il duce cuomo or Murphy or Whitmer or newsome
Once a politician or bureaucrat is infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome they become obsessed with destroying President Trump
and anyone with even the most remote association with him.
If they can’t prosecute or convict their target legally they harass the person to destroy their lives and send them into bankruptcy fighting
for their innocence in bogus court proceedings.
Look what they did to Flynn and so many others...
They can’t be retrying him if it was a criminal case - that’s double jeopardy and blatantly unconstitutional.
Bringing NEW charges is a new low, however.
Is the guy Cuban? They hate Cubans, too, if they aren’t pro-Castro.
Nevermind...Jewish. And the father’s a Rabbi from the Chicago area, so maybe he failed to pay off the Chicago Mob.
When they throw Bolshekrats in the slammer, then, they can have a shot at Trump.
Cuomo didn’t just send them back.
In March of 2020, Trump got CMS to change its regs allowing residential care facilities the ability to refuse to take back sick CoupFlu patients.
Cuomo ordered them sent back in May.
But the facilities did NOT have to comply thanks to the change in federal regs.
But most NYS facilities complied anyway.
Just why was that?
Wanna bet Albany threatened owners and administrators with inspections and increased scrutiny?
Our legislature was, and still is, just fine with whatever Cuomo ordered done.
The legislature knows right where to look to get to the bottom if it.
But they haven’t and won’t
Cool. So when Trump gets back into office, his DOJ will go after anyone this decrepit tyrant grants clemency to.
Disregard of clemency order… Roger Stone’s clemency order was seized from Mar-A-Lago. I don’t know any details of Esformes, but it seems the DOJ acts as if anything done by Trump is not valid. It as if Trump was never the legitimate President. That also means we are not legitimate citizens and are votes never counted. There is massive projection going on here by the Biden Administration, which only existed because of massive election fraud. They are not legitimate.
“I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.”
DemocRATS are Captain Ahab, and Trump their white whale.
Trump will need to replace the Deep State apparatchiks there first.
Isn’t this double jeopardy? I thought that was unconstitutional.
Why did Trump pardon this guy in the first place? Was there something spurious about the charges against him?
“health care fraud criminal charges”.
The CDC? Fauci? Yes, prosecute them.
Anyone remember that Communist bitch who set off a bomb in the Capitol, and Klinton granted her clemency? She went on to form BLM so she could engage in more Communist domestic terror against the American people. Retry her. Send her back to the f***ing slammer, along with every other Communist sh!tbag any DemoRAT president has given clemency.
“ Isn’t this double jeopardy? I thought that was unconstitutional.”
What? Are you talking about that oppressive document a bunch of silly old white racist slave owning wig wearing men wrote 250 years ago? Phhhtttt!
(Sarcasm post)
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