Biden grants clemency to ex-doc sentenced to 20 years for diluting cancer patients' chemotherapy drugs

Source: https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-grants-clemency-to-ex-doc-sentenced-to-20-years-for-diluting-cancer-patients-chemotherapy-drugs
Published: Dec 15, 2024
Author: Horse
Post Date: 2024-12-15 07:44:58 by Horse
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President Joe Biden granted clemency to nearly 1,500 Americans this week, including to a former doctor convicted of Medicare fraud for providing diluted chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients.

The commutations, which the White House is lauded as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history,” has drawn significant criticism as some of those on the list have been reported on. According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, several recipients were involved in serious offenses.

Meera Sachdeva, a Mississippi doctor, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for defrauding Medicare and was required to reimburse $8.2 million to her former cancer facility. Sachdeva provided cancer patients with diluted chemotherapy drugs. She also provided them with old needles, which resulted in one patient claiming to have gotten HIV from a needle used by her clinic.

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#1: Pinguinite    To: Horse (#0)

Sounds like the doc had a personal connection to Biden. Friend of a friend type thing, and has nothing to do with any perceived miscarriage of justice.

Pinguinite posted on 2024-12-15 08:36:54   Reply   Private Reply


#2: BTP Holdings    To: Horse (#0)

In the doctor office there is a container on the wall for them to deposit used needles. It is marked "SHARPS". HIV is just as bad as Hep C and either one can kill. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2024-12-15 20:58:29   Reply   Private Reply