🔍 Connecting the dots: Trump keeps pardoning healthcare fraudsters linked to this one pro-Israel sect

The president has made a mockery of his MAHA agenda by handing out clemency to healthcare execs responsible for costly and sometimes deadly criminal schemes.

See if you can spot a pattern:

🔴 Philip Esformes: Nursing home mogul behind what the DoJ says was the “largest health care fraud scheme” ever prosecuted, convicted in 2019 on a $1.3B fraud, bribery and money laundering scheme, including the drugging of patients with oxycontin and fentanyl to extend their stay at his facilities.

➡️ Got 20 years, but pardoned by Trump in late 2020 on the recommendation of Jared Kushner and the Chabad-Lubavitch movement-linked Aleph Institute. Rearrested for domestic violence in late 2024. Case dropped a month later.

🔴 Sholam Weiss: Racketeer, money launderer and wire fraudster who siphoned $450M from the National Heritage Life Insurance Company in the 90s. Slapped with an 845-year prison sentence, which he tried to evade by fleeing to Europe.

➡️ Pardoned by Trump in 2021. Also linked to Chabad.

🔴 Salomon Melgen: Got 17 years in prison in 2017 over a $42M fraud scheme involving unnecessary eye surgeries using Medicare. Sentence commuted by Trump in 2021, even though Melgen was a Democrat megadonor.

➡️ Pardon lobbied for by the Aleph Institute.

🔴 Daniela Gozes-Wagner: convicted on a $50M fraud scheme in 2017, sentenced to 10 years. Trump commuted her sentence in 2020.

➡️ Why? You guessed it, Aleph Institute lobbying.

🔴 Eliyahu Weinstein: Convicted to 24 years for real estate fraud targeting his own Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, NJ. Sentence commuted by Trump in 2021. Weinstein immediately returned to fraud, this time involving medical supplies. Handed a new 37-year sentence in November 2025.

➡️ Will he be freed again? Watch this space.

WaPo says 27 of the 238 people granted clemency by Trump 1.0 were linked to the Aleph Institute, its Tzedek Association sister agency, and other lobbyists working with them.

🤔 At least Biden had the autopen. What’s Trump’s excuse?

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