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USA v. Esformes et al
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1:16-cr-20549
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Firms
- Akerman LLP
- AXS Law Group
- Black Srebnick
- Carlton Fields
- Coffey Burlington
- Colson Hicks
- David M. Garvin PA
- Devine Goodman
- Holland & Knight
- Kelley Fulton
- Meyer Blohm
- Moscowitz & Moscowitz
- Reed Smith
- Rivero Mestre
- Stumphauzer Kolaya
- Tache Bronis
- The Bernstein Law Firm
Government Agencies
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April 09, 2019
Feds Get Mixed Results In Esformes Forfeiture Bid
A federal jury found Tuesday that nursing home mogul Philip Esformes should forfeit his interests in the operating companies for seven Miami-area facilities after his conviction for money laundering, but didn't give the government most of the assets it sought.
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April 08, 2019
Esformes Fights Forfeiture On Money Laundering Convictions
Miami area nursing home mogul Philip Esformes pushed back Monday against the government's bid to strip him of millions of dollars in assets as it presented its forfeiture request to jurors who convicted him on 20 counts in a health care fraud case last week.
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April 08, 2019
Gov't Esformes Victory Still Misses Tricky Fraud Target
The guilty verdict for Miami nursing home mogul Philip Esformes lacked any substantive health care fraud charges, even after the government consistently billed the case as the largest health care fraud case in history, a stinging example of how difficult it can be to secure such a conviction.
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April 05, 2019
Miami Nursing Home Owner Philip Esformes Found Guilty
A federal jury on Friday found nursing home mogul Philip Esformes guilty on various counts of paying and receiving kickbacks, money laundering, bribery and obstruction of justice after a two-month trial in Miami, in what the government called the largest health care fraud case it has ever brought.
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April 03, 2019
Trump's Opposition To ACA Can't Kill Esformes Trial
The Florida federal judge presiding over Philip Esformes' health care fraud trial rejected the nursing home mogul's bid to short-circuit the case based on the Trump administration's new position that the entire Affordable Care Act is invalid, finding Wednesday it does not affect the charges against him.
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April 03, 2019
Ex-Hospital Director Gets 15 Months In Esformes Case
A former hospital director charged in the federal government's health care fraud case against Miami nursing home mogul Philip Esformes was sentenced Wednesday in Miami to 15 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and paying and receiving health care kickbacks.
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April 01, 2019
Prosecutor Bitten For Vampire Comment At Esformes Trial
Miami federal court jurors ended their first day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict in the health care fraud trial of nursing home mogul Philip Esformes, getting the case after lengthy closing arguments Friday that ended with the judge admonishing a prosecutor's description of the defendant as a "vampire."
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March 28, 2019
If ACA's Invalid, So Are Health Fraud Charges, Esformes Says
Nursing home mogul Philip Esformes is seizing on the U.S. Department of Justice's new position that the entire Affordable Care Act is invalid, arguing that it dooms a health care fraud case that is premised on legal obligations created by the ACA.
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March 22, 2019
Fla. Judge Takes Stand In Esformes Trial To Clear His Name
A current Miami-Dade circuit court judge took the stand Friday in the health care fraud trial of Miami nursing home owner Philip Esformes to deny accusations made by government witnesses earlier in the trial that he had helped set up fraudulent paperwork to hide cash transactions.
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March 15, 2019
Ex-Health Inspector Denies Problems At Esformes Facilities
Philip Esformes put a former Florida state nursing home inspector on the stand Friday to defend the condition of his facilities as the Miami nursing home owner opened his defense in the blockbuster health care fraud trial.