March 15, 2019
Miami nursing home owner Philip Esformes sent more than $400,000 to the allegedly fraudulent charity run by William "Rick" Singer, the man at the center of the massive college bribery scandal announced earlier this week, according to a government witness in Esformes' health care fraud trial.
March 14, 2019
The trial judge trimmed counts for health care fraud, money laundering and conspiring to make a false statement from the massive health care fraud case against Philip Esformes after the government rested its case Thursday, finding prosecutors did not provide sufficient proof to convict the Miami nursing home mogul on those claims.
March 14, 2019
Miami nursing home owner Philip Esformes communicated with William "Rick" Singer, the man at the center of the massive college bribery scandal announced earlier this week, about his son's test scores and chances at an elite college, according to exhibits introduced in Esformes' health care fraud trial.
March 13, 2019
A forensic accountant testified Wednesday at the health care fraud trial of Philip Esformes how he traced Medicare and Medicaid funds through the Miami businessman's nursing facility network to payments for expensive luxury items, including a $1.6 million Ferrari.
March 12, 2019
Miami nursing home owner Philip Esformes' attorneys tried Tuesday to poke holes in former University of Pennsylvania men's basketball coach Jerome Allen's story that he accepted bribes to get Esformes' son into Penn, saying the two men's relationship was not merely transactional and pointing to Allen's mentoring of Esformes' son.
March 11, 2019
The government on Monday painted a picture of nursing home owner Philip Esformes as a micromanager obsessed with patient counts at his facilities, showing jurors in the blockbuster health care fraud trial the daily predawn text messages he'd sent requesting census numbers and venting his concern when they dipped below capacity.
March 08, 2019
Former University of Pennsylvania men's basketball coach Jerome Allen took the stand Friday in the health care fraud trial of Philip Esformes and described how he received about $300,000 in bribes from the Miami nursing home mogul in bags full of cash and wire transfers to get Esformes' son on the Penn basketball team and into the Wharton School of Business.
March 07, 2019
A medical expert testifying for the government Thursday at the health care fraud trial of Miami-area nursing home owner Philip Esformes said practices described or shown to have taken place in Esformes' facilities appeared to be "inappropriate, unethical and simply wrong."
February 28, 2019
Miami nursing home mogul Philip Esformes entered into "completely unreasonable" contracts to have his alleged co-conspirators in a $1 billion health care fraud operate and eventually buy two of his facilities, an expert witness for the federal government said Thursday at Esformes' trial in Miami.
February 27, 2019
The federal judge overseeing the $1 billion health care fraud trial of Miami nursing home owner Philip Esformes rejected the defense's attempt Wednesday to shut down questioning over substandard conditions at one of his facilities, ruling that the testimony is relevant to charges that he bribed state officials to get advance notice of inspections.