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The Justice Department seeks to retry Philip Esformes in a Medicare fraud case that led to his 2019 conviction and a 20-year sentence.
“As your threat to retry Mr. Esformes continues to loom, he remains burdened by your selective, vindictive, and unconstitutional prosecution and I remain concerned about the dangerous precedent your decision sets regarding the President’s Constitutional pardon power,” Mr. Biggs wrote to Mr. Garland.Jessica Jackson, a human rights attorney who often represents Democratic causes, agreed with Mr. Biggs.
Prosecutors in the case had already been criticized by a magistrate judge for misconduct that involved disregarding attorney-client privileges and attempting to obscure evidence.
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