Posted on 08/13/2022 9:23:55 AM PDT by lowbridge
“Health care executives who exploit patients through medically unnecessary services and conspire to obstruct justice in order to boost their own profits – as alleged in this case – have no place in our health care system,” said Special Agent in Charge Richmond. “Such actions only strengthen our resolve to protect patients and the U.S. taxpayers.”
Esformes operated a network of over 30 skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities (the Esformes Network), which gave him access to thousands of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Many of these beneficiaries did not qualify for skilled nursing home care or for placement in an assisted living facility; however, Esformes and his co-conspirators nevertheless admitted them to Esformes Network facilities where the beneficiaries received medically unnecessary services that were billed to Medicare and Medicaid.
steered these beneficiaries to other health care providers – including community mental health centers and home health care providers – who also performed medically unnecessary treatments that were billed to Medicare and Medicaid.
From I can gather, he admitted people who did not qualify (translation\/ they didn’t make enough money to qualify, so he figured out a way to get them into a care facility\/ Or he admitted those with money enough for private care, and placed them in a position for taxpayers to subsidize those who were of “Means”.
As someone stuck with a MIL who only receives $1,600 a month after Medicare is taken out, and is not coveted into a facility, it sounds like the kind of guy I want to run a facility in my area. We are poorer by half than her, and we cannot place her to take the load off of us. In short, we are stuck with a 96 year old dementia ridden hag, and the only way out is death. Any relief is a god send for people in my position.
So what are our hundreds of Billions going to? It is surely not for the indigent and aged. We flat out cannot find a place that will take someone who doesn’t have financial backing. I am assuming, there is a minimum amount of money patients must have to strip from the residents, or they are stuck with family. This guy had 30 facilities, what happened to them after he was arrested, then convicted? Were they rich enough to afford private care, and he shoe-horned them in to take spots from the needy? Or did he take all comers?
For those of you thinking of taking care of an elderly parent, DON’T DO IT. If you cannot afford it, and have some left over for you, DON’T DO IT. Seriously. A man who would take this woman out of my home and into one of his places, I say God bless you. If he is part of the problem in nearly every state, which is keeping the needy out, and taking in those who could afford their own care, hang him and send him to hell.
"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.
They can’t be re-trying him? The prohibition against Double Jeopardy comes from an Amendment to the Constitution. President Biden has said repeatedly that no Amendment, or even the Constitution itself, is absolute.
Maybe they are just letting us know what to expect after they finish Trump off.
Yup. Totally unconstitutional. Classic "double jeopardy" situation.
Whither the norms?
What is this constitution of which you speak?
Trump never had a DOJ. He must get his own this time.
“At issue is the Justice Department’s plan to retry Esformes on six criminal counts that jurors at his Florida federal court trial deadlocked on, even as they convicted him of 20 other crimes.”
They can retry the deadlocked charges, but it’s risky, because they could deadlock again or find him not guilty. Obviously these charges where the weakest part of the origial case.
Tough circumstances.
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