In December 2012, Dr Meera Sachdeva was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to repay nearly USD 8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi cancer centre she ran

Biden commuted the prison sentence of Meera Sachdeva, a cancer doctor who gave diluted chemo drugs to patients as part of an $8 million Medicare fraud.

Also re-used old needles, leading to a lawsuit by a patient who claimed he contracted HIV.

  • @BMTea@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What in the fuck!? How about closing Gitmo before freeing these degenerate white collor murderers?

    • @jeffw@lemmy.world
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      You mean like Obama did? And then how he got blocked immediately?

      Yeah, why didn’t we do the thing that was already done and hope for a different outcome!

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        Ah, yes, the “helpless executive” bullshit excuse for cowardice. Obama did not need to throw it to Congress by trying to relocate detainees to the US, they shouldn’t be detained in the first place and the gov has nothing on them except Bush administration gibberish that they know can’t hold up in a court of law. As commander-in-chief both he and Biden always had the power to order them released and repatriated and order their State Department to work on their repatriation with their nations of origin. That does not require any input whatsoever from Congress and not even the judiciary could stop it, it falls under broad commander-in-chief authority.

  • @BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    155 months ago

    To be clear, as happened with a bunch of these. They were not individual pardons. They were a batch of 1500 offenders who had non violent crimes, and were already outside of prisons on home release from covid situations. He didn’t pick and choose, it was just everyone who was in that situation.