The Biden administration’s effort to retry former healthcare executive Philip Esformes is “a travesty of justice,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said at a congressional oversight hearing on June 22.
Convicted in a healthcare fraud scheme, Esformes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2019.
In December 2020, then-President Donald Trump commuted to time served the sentence of Esformes who had been behind bars since he was arrested in 2016. Trump did not, however, pardon Esformes for several “hung” counts that were not resolved by the jury, nor did he relieve Esformes of the burden of paying $5 million in restitution and complying with an order of three years of supervised release….