Sadly, we are not kidding. President Trump has shown his true colors, and his true loyalty to the almighty dollar, with yet another pardon of one of the bad boys of senior care. But this bad boy is the worst of the group.
We are referring to the just announced pardon of criminal Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of Skyline Health. Several months ago, after his last senior care pardon, we ended a story with, who’s next, Joseph Schwartz? We were kidding, but not laughing now. Not only did he commit a nearly $40 million fraud against us, the taxpayers, but he also put the well-being of several thousand patients in his nursing homes in jeopardy as he sucked as much cash out of them as he could and did not pay his bills.
He should have rotted in prison for the rest of his life, where at least he had access to food and medicine. We wish we could say the same for his former nursing home patients when he walked away with empty cabinets and handed over the keys. And by the way, where is the financial restitution? He just gets to keep all the money he stole?
So now we have pardons for Jon Harder, Philip Esformes, Paul Walczak and Schwartz by Trump. Too bad character no longer seems to matter.
Is there anyone who thinks this is good for the senior care industry? Is there anyone who wonders why we sometimes get a bad rap? Is there anyone writing the White House and asking it to stop this insanity, please? This just makes me sick.
And, why do I not hear others publicly saying what I am saying? What are you afraid of?
