Ayanna Pressley: “Trump has prioritized pardoning people who collectively…”

“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 of 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.” (04:10–04:18)

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