Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Healthcare Executive Given Clemency by Trump

The Supreme Court has rejected the Medicare fraud appeal of former healthcare executive Philip Esformes, whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.

The prosecution involved what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) described as the “largest health care fraud scheme ever charged” by the agency.

The Supreme Court rejected the petition for certiorari, or review, in Esformes v. United States in an unsigned order on Dec. 11. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its decision. At least four of the nine justices have to vote for a petition for it to advance to the oral argument stage.

The case received media attention earlier this year because the Biden administration announced it would retry Mr. Esformes on several hung counts on which the jury deadlocked. The re-prosecution was criticized by legal experts.

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