Philip Esformes, whose 20-year jail sentence for an enormous, $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme was commuted in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, was arrested over the weekend in Florida on domestic-violence associated fees.

Esformes is at the least the seventh one that acquired govt clemency from Trump, and has since been charged with new crimes, based on The New York Times, which first reported this newest arrest.

In August, a convicted New York drug supplier and predatory lender named Jonathan Braun, whose 10-year jail time period Trump commuted in 2021, was charged with assaulting his father-in-law and his spouse in separate incidents.

Courtroom data present that Esformes was arrested Saturday after which charged with tampering with a sufferer or witness, and with prison mischief involving property harm.

He was booked into the Miami-Dade County jail on Sunday, his 56th birthday.

Esformes was launched on Monday after posting two separate bonds totaling $1,650, based on a jail spokeswoman.

A lawyer for Esformes had no speedy touch upon the arrest.

CNBC has requested remark from Trump’s presidential marketing campaign spokesman.

CNBC additionally has requested remark from a lawyer for Esformes’ ex-wife, Sherri Beth Esformes, whose divorce from him was finalized in July 2020.

Sherri Beth Esformes filed a petition in her ex-husband’s federal well being care fraud case in August, asserting a 50% property curiosity in a slew of firms and properties that had been deemed forfeitable by Philip Esformes to settle a $38.7 million forfeiture judgment in that case.

A lawyer for Sherri Beth wrote that he authorized proper to the properties is superior to the curiosity of the U.S. authorities within the property, and that it renders the forfeiture order invalid.

The submitting says that by not together with Sherri Beth because the file proprietor of the properties, her ex-husband “obtained these properties by a breach of belief of Ms. Esformes’ confidence and thru fraudulent or illegal means.”

On Tuesday, a choose in Miami federal court docket set a deadline of Nov. 4 for Philip Esformes to reply to his ex-wife’s submitting.

Philip Esformes, who had owned Florida nursing properties, was convicted at trial in 2019 of 20 prison counts associated to what the Division of Justice on the time stated was the most important health-care fraud scheme ever prosecuted by the division.

The DOJ stated that Esformes and co-conspirators for greater than twenty years cycled 1000’s of Medicare and Medicaid sufferers via a community of nursing and assisted residing services regardless of the very fact they didn’t qualify for such care.

Trump commuted Esformes’ jail sentence in late 2020, which led to his speedy launch from custody.

The White Home, in announcing the commutation, on the time stated, “This commutation is supported by former Attorneys Common Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, in addition to former Deputy Lawyer Common Larry Thompson.”

“As well as, former Attorneys Common Edwin Meese, John Ashcroft, and Alberto Gonzalez, in addition to different notable authorized figures resembling Ken Starr, have filed in assist of his attraction difficult his conviction on the idea of prosecutorial misconduct associated to violating attorney-client privilege.”

“Whereas in jail, Mr. Esformes, who’s 52, has been dedicated to prayer and repentance and is in declining well being,” the White Home added.

However the DOJ then moved to retry Esforms on six prison fees that jurors at his first trial had deadlocked on.

Esformes fought these efforts for a number of years, however this previous February agreed to plead responsible to at least one rely of conspiracy to commit well being care fraud. He was sentenced to time served.

The New York Occasions in September detailed how six other criminal convicts, together with Braun, had been arrested after receiving govt clemency from Trump. Government clemency is usually a pardon, which voids an individual’s federal prison conviction, or commutation, which terminates any jail or jail sentence.

The clemency recipients detailed within the article included former White Home advisor Steve Bannon, the rapper Kodak Black, funding fraudster Eliyahu Weinstein, the robber Jamie Davidson, and counterfeit power drink scammer Adriana Camberos.