Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 10
th, 2026 at 9:27am:
P resident Donald Trump has quietly commuted the sentence of a Florida health care executive convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme to pilfer $205 million from the program through false means — even as the GOP claims that their massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs are aimed at weeding out “waste, fraud and abuse.”
Last Wednesday, Trump granted clemency to two dozen people, including Lawrence Duran, who was 2011 convicted in (https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/owner-miami-area-mental-health-company-sentenced-50-years-prison-orchestrating-205-million) for defrauding Medicare and money laundering, among other charges.
Duran, who owned a mental health care company with across Florida seven locations (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article307566596.html), and his girlfriend received $87 million from the scheme.
As the Miami Herald (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article3208683.html) points out, this was, at the time, the largest therapy-related Medicare fraud scheme in history, with hundreds of thousands of false claims.
Duran was sentenced to 50 years in prison, and he and other collaborators were ordered to pay $87 million in restitution.
That's okay, Sprint. DL's pardon wipes out his friend's financial restitution.
Look, it's only $87 mil. DOGE, if you recall, saved the taxpayers
$200 mil.
DL's been cutting costs from day one. As a businessman, he got all his projects done on time and under budget. Remember, he got erected on a program to cut waste and mismanagement, eradicate incompetence and corruption.
No one has a better record on this than DL. After forgiving his friend's debt, that leaves $113 mil to spend on stuff the taxpayers want.
Imagine, they could fund all sorts of things. Endless wars, compensation for the Jan 6 patriots, funding for Eric and Don Jnr's foreign mining deals, fabulous new presidential ballrooms, restitution for all the big fella's pain and suffering, anything. The sky's the limit, Sprint.
We will make America great again, no?