Saturday, December 14, 2024

Comrades always go free!-----Biden clemency includes Indiana nursing home CEO behind $19M fraud

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of a former Indiana health care executive who led a $19.4 million fraud scheme involving nursing homes owned by Marion County's public health system. 
  • As the top executive of Indiana's largest nursing home operator, Burkhart and several co-conspirators orchestrated a massive fraud and kickback scheme involving a web of shell companies. He then spent the money on private jets, vacation homes, diamond jewelry and gold bars. 
Most of the stolen money came from the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, a public health agency that owns nursing homes and operates Eskenazi hospital...
  • He earned a salary of more than $1 million a year, not including the money he skimmed from sham contracts, and was a significant campaign contributor to both Republicans and Democrats...

No comments: