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Local January 19, 2021 | 7:54 am

Trump to pardon Dominican who stole US$42M from Medicare

Santo Domingo.- Among those on the list of the 100 pardons by US President Donald Trump, is Dominican ophthalmologist based in Florida, Salomon Melgen, sentenced in 2018 to 17 years in prison for defrauding Medicare out of US$42 million. Friend of the influential Democratic senator Robert (Bob) Menéndez (D-NJ, also accused of corruption, Melgen was arrested in April 2015 in Palm Beach County, ... Read more