(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz in November, erasing his federal prison sentence just three months into a three year term for orchestrating a $39 million payroll tax scheme. The pardon left grieving families unable to collect multimillion dollar judgments awarded after their loved ones died in Schwartz’s facilities, ProPublica reported.
Schwartz had pleaded guilty last April to failure to pay IRS taxes withheld from employees and failing to file a financial report for his employees’ benefit plan. Federal prosecutors said they believed Schwartz still controlled more than $50 million in assets, though not a single asset appeared in his name.
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