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This truly confuses me…President Trump Pardoned Nursing Home Owner Joseph Schwartz who was Tied to COVID Bodies Stacked in Makeshift Freezers – Today, Families are Still Owed Millions in Wrongful Death Judgments.Why would Trump pardon this POS?President Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Joseph Schwartz, the former owner of the Skyline Healthcare nursing home chain, wiping out his federal conviction and any remaining restitution obligations.Schwartz pleaded guilty to a 38–39 million federal employment tax fraud scheme. He withheld payroll taxes from employees at his nursing homes across 11 states but never paid them over to the IRS (2017–2018); he also failed to file required 401(k) reports. He was sentenced to three years in prison in April 2025 and served only about three months before the pardon.In April 2020 at Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center II in New Jersey (a facility previously operated under Skyline and to the Schwartz family via his son Louis). During a COVID-19 outbreak that killed at least 70–83 residents, authorities discovered 17 bodies crammed into a tiny makeshift morgue designed to hold only 4–5. The bodies were in bags, stacked and overflowing; the facility was later fined over 200,000. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death lawsuits against Schwartz/Skyline facilities for neglect-related patient deaths, but they have collected nothing due to the chain’s bankruptcy and asset shielding.He also had a separate Arkansas state conviction for Medicaid fraud/tax evasion tied to inflating rates at his facilities. A judge sentenced him to three years in federal prison in April 2025; he began serving it and had served only about three months when pardoned.