A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the criminal conviction of a wealthy businessman who ran a network of nursing homes and assisted living facilities in South Florida for orchestrating a $1.3 billion healthcare fraud.
Although Philip Esformes' 10-year prison sentence was commuted in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, the ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means that he will still be liable for monetary penalties totaling $44 million.Esformes' argument that the case against him should have been dismissed because prosecutors improperly reviewed materials covered by attorney-client privilege.
A lawyer for Esformes and a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Prosecutors said that from 1998 to 2016, Esformes ran an extensive healthcare fraud scheme through a network of nursing homes and assisted living facilities he owned, bribing doctors with cash to refer patients. Those patients were then cycled through facilities, which often failed to provide them appropriate medical services or provided unnecessary services, prosecutors said.
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