(CNN Español) – The ophthalmologist of the original origin Salomon Melgen, sentenced in 2018 to 17 years of imprisonment for fraud in medical insurance for major adults (Medicare), was benefited by a clemency mediated by Donald Trump in the last hours of his presidency, informs the Secretarial of the press of the White House.
Melgen, a medical practitioner from Palm Beach, Florida, was one of more than 100 people to whom Trump apologized for committing the crime.
«El Dr. Melgen was found guilty of fraud in medical attention and false statements. “Numerous patients and friends and testimony of his generosity in treating all patients”, said the communicator.
According to information distributed to the media, including the indictment of Salomon Melgen, the figure of the New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menéndez. In 2015, Melgen also accused him of being a co-conspirator in a case of corruption charges against this senator. Without embargo, in 2018 the Department of Justice will rule on the charges against Menendez that the court could not grant a verdict on the verdict.