But Donald Trump, with the support of Republicans in Congress, is using his authority to reward fraudsters, and he is doing so at the expense of victims of fraud. I published a report called Trump's Clemency Gap. It reveals how Trump has prioritized pardoning people who collectively defrauded the federal government over $2 billion in taxpayer money. For example, in 2011, Florida resident Lawrence Duran, owner of American Therapeutic Corporation, was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims from mental health services. (04:02–04:14)
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