# Lawrence Duran **Lawrence Duran** is the former co-owner of American Therapeutic Corporation, who pleaded guilty in April 2011 to multiple felonies including health-care fraud, defrauding Medicare, and money laundering. His scheme generated roughly **$205 million in false Medicare claims**, of which about **$87 million was paid out**; his sentence carried a restitution order of $87,533,863.46 and one of the longest health-care-fraud prison terms on record at **50 years**. [[Donald Trump]] **commuted his sentence to time served in May 2025** as part of the [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]], ending the term with no further fines or restitution. Duran's clemency drew particular attention for its hypocrisy: it freed the orchestrator of one of the largest Medicare-fraud schemes ever prosecuted at the same time the administration was justifying Medicaid cuts in the name of eliminating "fraud, waste, and abuse." The California governor's office cited the case among pardons that wiped out roughly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery. ## Cross-references - Clemency event: [[Trump 2025 Pardon Spree]] - Mechanism: [[Pardons as Currency]] - Accountability frame: [[Elite Impunity]]