A Florida man accused of facilitating an illegal health care scheme has been spared additional prison time, ending the Justice Department's attempt to reprosecute him after his sentence was commuted by former President Donald Trump.
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Philip Esformes on Thursday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, with the federal government agreeing to dismiss the remaining five counts. It's a quiet end to a controversial prosecution that saw prosecutors resuscitate the criminal case against him not long after he'd spent four and a half years behind bars and was released from prison in December 2020, despite that he had already been sentenced for the same counts on which they sought to retry him.
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