Updated: Philip Esformes reaches plea deal with federal prosecutors on remaining charges in landmark...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 02, 2024
Philip Esformes, the assisted living community and nursing home owner charged in 2016 in a $1.3 billion healthcare fraud case that the federal government at the time called “the largest healthcare fraud...
Kim Kardashian shines spotlight on Philip Esformes case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 17, 2023
Reality TV personality Kim Kardashian recently shined the spotlight on the case of assisted living community and nursing home owner Philip Esformes in a series of tweets.
Big senior living stories of 2021
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2021
2021 began with the hope that the new COVID-19 vaccine being rolled out to assisted living communities and nursing homes would help control a pandemic that had caused so much illness, death, loneliness,...
Philip Esformes has 20-year sentence in fraud case commuted by President Trump
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 23, 2020
In one of two cases with assisted living connections, President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Philip Esformes, the former assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner who was sentenced...
Operators, workers should be protected from COVID-19 lawsuits, association says
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Lois A. Bowers
Apr 13, 2020
Assisted living communities and skilled nursing facilities, and the people who work for them, should be “protected from liability” for treating anyone with COVID-19 during the current pandemic, the...
Big senior living stories of 2019
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 23, 2019
Here’s a look at some of the news that occupied many minds in senior living over the past year.
Philip Esformes sentenced to 20 years in prison in healthcare fraud case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 12, 2019
Former Florida assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner Philip Esformes has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a case that the federal government continues to describe as “the...
Esformes must forfeit interest in long-term care operating companies, judge rules
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 10, 2019
Philip Esformes, the Florida assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner found guilty in April of more than 20 charges in a case that the federal government described as “the largest single criminal...
Esformes will appeal convictions on 20 charges in $1.3 billion healthcare fraud case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 08, 2019
Former assisted living facility and nursing home owner Philip Esformes plans to appeal a jury’s finding, announced Friday, that he is guilty of 20 charges in a case that the federal government is calling...
Philip Esformes found guilty on more than 20 charges in healthcare fraud case
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 05, 2019
Philip Esformes, the owner of multiple Miami-area assisted living and skilled nursing facilities accused in 2016 of orchestrating a $1 billion healthcare fraud scheme, has been found guilty on more than...