Former Wellcare executives pardoned by Trump
The companyâs Tampa headquarters were raided by FBI agents in 2007 as part of an investigation that included using an undercover informant.
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Todd Farha, shown in 2006 when he was chairman and CEO of Tampa s WellCare Health Plans.
By News Service of Florida
Published Jan. 20
TALLAHASSEE â As part of a flurry of last-minute pardons and commutations, President Donald Trump granted pardons to five former executives of WellCare Health Plans who were convicted in a case involving allegations of defrauding Floridaâs Medicaid program.
Trump pardoned former WellCare CEO and President Todd Farha, former General Counsel Thaddeus Bereday, former Chief Financial Officer Paul Behrens, former Vice President William Kale and former Vice President Peter Clay.
Trump Commutes 835-Year White-Collar Sentence for Sholam Weiss
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January 20, 2021
(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump included in his last-minute wave of clemency grants a commutation of former New York businessman Sholam Weiss’s 835-year sentence, believed to be the longest ever imposed on a white-collar criminal.
Weiss, 66, was sentenced in 2000 in federal court in Orlando, Florida, following his conviction on charges stemming from his role in a series of complex financial frauds that resulted in the collapse of the National Heritage Life Insurance Co. In commuting Weiss’s prison term, which was previously reduced from the original 845 years, Trump noted that Weiss suffers from “chronic health conditions.”
Marshall Project this week has a timely three-part series in which leading conservatives working on and advocating for criminal justice reform are setting out the conservative case for reforms. The first commentary was authored by Pat Nolan and carried the subheadline Focus on intent, tailor the punishment to the crime, prepare prisoners for life after incarceration.
The second in the series here is authored by Vikrant Reddy and carries the subheadline End overcriminalization, reward success, pay attention to the heroin crisis. Here are excerpts:
Criminal justice reform advocates are pessimistic about the prospects for federal sentencing reform under the new presidential administration. Federal sentencing, however, is only one component of America’s vast criminal justice system. There are several other areas where the administration and reformers could find common cause. Here are just three reforms widely supported by advocates which are also consistent with a “Trumpian
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