Medicare fraudster ‘devoted to prayer’ and given another chance by Trump arrested on eve of birthday, allegedly threatened wife in front of family members

Donald Trump, Philip Esformes

Left: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks along the southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File). Right: In this Aug. 7, 2015 file photo, Philip Esformes arrives at the 15th Annual Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Gala. The Florida health care executive was convicted on 20 criminal charges in what prosecutors described as a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme before Trump commuted his sentence (Photo by Rob Latour/Invision/AP, File).

Another Donald Trump clemency recipient with a new lease on life, this one a health care executive turned convicted Medicare fraudster, was arrested on his birthday weekend in Miami, Florida, and faces two felony charges stemming from an alleged domestic violence incident.

The tampering with a witness and criminal mischief case against Philip Esformes, who was booked into the Miami-Dade County jail Sunday, the day he turned 56, made Esformes the seventh Trump clemency recipient to face new charges, the New York Times reported.

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