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However, as of last month, he has been granted parole.
But while he essentially gets to walk free, the families, the victims, receive nothing.
received nothing, the taxpayers not being refunded the tens of millions of dollars that he overbilled and defrauded Medicaid.
And it's not that he just doesn't have money, that he's some broke individual now because he and his people actually spent almost $1 million on lobbyists to help him get out of prison.
$1 million to lobby the DOJ, the Trump administration, to get him out of prison.
And that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the fortune that this man allegedly still has hiding somewhere because guess what?
The government never seized his assets.
They never even made him pay a fraction of what he stole.
This was in that ProPublica article.
The investigation never determined where the money went.
Prosecutors said that they were not able to establish that Schwartz had used the money on a lavish lifestyle, but they said they never completed a forensic accounting of his finances, which moved money through more than 200 bank accounts.
They said they believe Schwartz still controlled more than $50 million in assets.
It's out there somewhere.
They didn't really check.
But they think he still got $50 million.