Miami Beach Exec With Role in College Admissions Scandal Gets 20 Years in $1B Medicare Fraud
The operator of a network of South Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities was convicted of using kickbacks and bribes to gain business. A basketball coach testified Philip Esformes also paid $300,000 in bribes to get his son into the University of Pennsylvania.
September 12, 2019 at 03:37 PM
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A Miami Beach health care executive was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what federal prosecutors described as a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
U.S. District Judge Robert Scola in Miami imposed the sentence on Philip Esformes, 50, in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history.
Scola called the case one of a violation of trust of "epic proportions" and said Esformes was "somewhat of an enigma" because of his obvious success combined with such a large criminal operation.
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