A former nursing home executive from Rockland County was spared most of a three-year prison sentence in November after President Trump pardoned him for a $39 million tax fraud conviction.

But Joseph Schwartz had another punishment waiting when he was released from Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in New York shortly after his Nov. 14 pardon . He still faced a one-year jail term in Arkansas after pleading guilty there to Medicaid fraud and tax evasion in a separate case earlier this year — state-level charges that are beyond the reach of a presidential pardon.

In announcing that plea on May 1, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin had listed a host of alleged misdeeds by Schwartz at multiple nursing homes he operated in that state, including inflated Medicaid billing and faili

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