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Paul Walczak, a Palm Beach Gardens health care executive, was convicted of tax evasion for siphoning more than $10.9 million in payroll taxes from the paychecks of doctors and nurses.
By Susie Madrak April 30, 2025
Two weeks after a federal judge told the son of a wealthy socialite and business tycoon that his familys money was not a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, El Cheatolini declared otherwise. Via the Palm Beach Post:
President Donald Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, a Palm Beach Gardens health care executive convicted of tax evasion for siphoning more than $10.9 million in payroll taxes from the paychecks of doctors and nurses. Prosecutors said he used the money to finance a lavish lifestyle and luxury goods, including a $2 million yacht.
During his April 11 sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra said that letting Walczak walk free "reinforces the perception that the rich get away with it and the poor go to prison."
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/trump-pardons-donors-son-stealing-doctors
And some people wonder why health care costs go up............maybe him and his family know Rick Scott...............on how his company stole 1.7 billion from Medicare.............and walked free basically

Tadpole Raisin
(1,789 posts)can say the Felon has done, cuz you sure wont hear it on Faux.
BoRaGard
(5,218 posts)totally slimey sleazy sucky - totall GOP "values"
kysrsoze
(6,297 posts)Now it's an almost daily occurrence that the complicit media no longer cares about.
Traildogbob
(11,079 posts)Has the Arsface (Preacher character) lips.
Google it, tell me I am wrong. I have no idea how to post images, that may be a blessing to yall.
Ocelot II
(124,518 posts)Donations to my "campaign," which end up in my pocket, will ensure that you can commit whatever crimes you want and I'll pardon you. He's selling pardons as prosecution insurance. Just be sure your crimes are federal and you'll be fine.
Tadpole Raisin
(1,789 posts)will be keeping all of these cases on their desks ready to go once the Felon leaves office.
As long as the statute hasnt run out theres a chance anyway.
LiberalArkie
(18,057 posts)SergeStorms
(19,601 posts)He's stacked the courts there with cloying sycophants to do his bidding. DeSatan is grifting almost as much as Trump, so he wants toadies in the judicial branch as well.
Few of these crimes are happening in blue states, only within the friendly confines of lawless FloriDUH.
As long as the money keeps pouring into Mar-ma-lardo and Tallahassee, it's "get out of jail free" time in FloriDUH.
Falcon101
(52 posts)Trump cannot touch them.
Tadpole Raisin
(1,789 posts)Is minimal, with more recent chaos and corruption making headline news and dropping the interest in these cases to nothing, the Felon may forget to give (all of) these people pardons and the players may get cocky and believe they are in the clear.
If states tried to prosecute during his administration he would throw up all the roadblocks to delay he could, attack the states with every dirt trick he could think of, and he would remember to add the accused (he hadnt yet pardoned) to his pardon list. Id rather their arrogance traps them, with fewer options available for them to fight on 1/21/29
Id prefer the states keep things quiet and then wait until he is out of office to pounce (or for those not pardoned the DOJ in the new dem administration could choose to take the case) assuming we still have a system of justice left of course.
Historic NY
(38,925 posts)DENVERPOPS
(11,974 posts)his CABAL, his spawn, Jared, and the RepubliCON politicians are the largest Crime Syndicate in the entire world.....
And he continues to appoint countless other criminal elements to every position in Government.......It's as if it is a pre-requisite to be a criminal to even apply for any job in the Trump government........
Passages
(2,710 posts)This is what we lost to....a looter con man.
no_hypocrisy
(51,381 posts)the doctors/nurses had to pay that tax.
Ping Tung
(2,272 posts)Kid Berwyn
(20,206 posts)Like a code, almost, foisting the arts of stealing candy from babies.
Silent Type
(9,154 posts)"Walczak is the son of Betsy Fago, a longtime Republican donor who once hosted a fundraiser at her Jupiter mansion where attendees circulated the stolen diary of Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley."
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/04/28/trump-pardons-wealthy-tax-cheat-paul-walczak-with-ties-to-ashley-biden-diary-scandal-betsy-fago/83323718007/
dchill
(42,213 posts)PROVES THE FACT.
mdbl
(6,363 posts)Those idiots will vote for him.
wolfie001
(4,811 posts)I blame his jackassed voters. Stupid, racist mf'ers.
Attilatheblond
(5,775 posts)Wasn't that medical corporation actually owned by the Frist family, of which former Senator Bill Frist was a member?
John1956PA
(4,014 posts)The $4.4M is the amount of restitution still owed by him on a $11M restitution total previously stipulated by him and the government prosecutors. He was scheduled to report to prison on July 1 to begin his eighteen-month prison sentence.
I do not know if the pardon alleviates his obligation to pay the $4.4M restitution balance.
ananda
(31,613 posts)He could sell pardons and indulgences.
I guess he identifies with other pope monsters
like the Borgias.
And if he thinks the church is a means of oppression
and gaining wealth... well... he really would fit
right in.
DENVERPOPS
(11,974 posts)would want to be Pope, is given their history of child molestors...........
ananda
(31,613 posts)Money and oppression are also very important to Trump.
DENVERPOPS
(11,974 posts)he knows of the immense wealth and land ownership of the Catholic Church........He should also look at gaining control of the Mormon church..........
Martin Eden
(14,225 posts)The bottom is still not in sight.
bronxiteforever
(10,396 posts)American values are bull sh*t. Lest we forget that these decisions are made by evangelicals Christians.
Ford_Prefect
(8,356 posts)Them as got will have, them as not will lose....
Hekate
(97,463 posts)📣
their great and good pal President-for-Life Donald Trump. 📣Step right up ladies and gents, for only $1,000 you can come on in and see this marvel of the 21st century. 📣 In return you will get not one but two Non Fungible trading cards to add to your collection. 📣
🎪 P.T. Barnum was so right.
I feel for that judge. The corruption is enough to gag a goat.
Quanto Magnus
(1,114 posts)people.... Criminals and sexual predators...
Canada Kid
(116 posts)Don't you all get it?? This is called HEALTH CARE!!
BattleRow
(1,563 posts)Traildogbob
(11,079 posts)For Moses Mike, Jesuss BFF. Also Podium Barbie, another Jesus Fan girl. And push for a damn answer, not a word salad of Satan/Biden.
I noticed yesterday Podium Barbie was not wearing her Lord Bling when ranting about Bezos not playing fair. Has that cross been burning sores above her boobyness area as she spews False Witness like a sailer vomiting on a Late weekend leave pass after 5 weeks at sea? Old Destroyer Salt here, a frequent display from some shipmates, so no False witnessing or slanderous accusations.
White color America, Free pass to take every fucking thing we own.
Permanut
(7,064 posts)Was on shore patrol often in Norfolk and in ports in the Med, taking drunks back to the ship. I can testify to the truth of your tale. I have no idea how those guys drank so much.
Gotta say it was a minority, though, and mostly the same ones.
Traildogbob
(11,079 posts)Semmes. I partied a little hard before joining, traveling in a band full time. I learned lessens before my service, so those ports I shored up at on Two, 7 month tours, I knew to stay away from the drink till ya puke crowd.
Best thing about Destroyers, 300 person crew. 1/3 of that stay on the boat for duty section, so ya just need to get away from the percentage of that 200 that have one goal.
Cant imaging a 5,000 crew Carrier, lots of puking through the city.
Also, we could just pull up to the pier.
Cheers to ya sailor.
Beowulf42
(260 posts)Always said, "Never steal anything small." Nothing more accurately describes our present times. Steal a loaf of bread and get ten years. Steal 10 million and get forgiven. SMITF
milestogo
(20,441 posts)
LetMyPeopleVote
(162,443 posts)The presidents latest pardon fuels the perception that the criminal justice system increasingly works in favor of those aligned with the White House.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3lny263dkuk22
Evidently, Trump came to the opposite conclusion and added to his ridiculous list of controversial pardons.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-finds-yet-another-political-ally-reward-presidential-pardon-rcna203374
President Trump has pardoned a Florida health care executive whose mother played a role in trying to expose the contents of Ashley Bidens diary. The pardon of the executive, Paul Walczak, was signed privately on Wednesday and posted on the Justice Departments website on Friday. It came less than two weeks after he was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution, for tax crimes that prosecutors said were used to finance a lavish lifestyle, including the purchase of a yacht.
.......Rather, what we have here is a Republican donor, from a Republican family, who was caught siphoning off tax payments for his employees repeatedly, over the course of a decade in order to finance an extravagant lifestyle.
Though Walczak professed his innocence, he was ultimately convicted and was poised to spend a year and a half behind bars that is, until Trump decided to intervene in his case...
Taken together, Trump appears to have created an entirely new legal/political dynamic, without precedent in the American tradition, in which pardons are available to perceived political allies with whom the president sympathizes.
Traditionally, presidents have issued pardons in order to right a wrong or protect those who have been falsely accused of wrongdoing. In 2025, if Trump sees a convicted criminal as an ally, thats apparently all the president needs to know.
For all the GOP hysterics in the Biden era about a two-tiered system of justice, it seems the White House has gone out of its way to create the very dynamic Republicans claimed to be against.
tanyev
(46,235 posts)BootinUp
(49,734 posts)Grokenstein
(5,975 posts)littlemissmartypants
(27,437 posts)IronLionZion
(48,661 posts)The criminals screwing Americans are these a-holes not some impoverished immigrant "stealing our jobs".
ThoughtCriminal
(14,548 posts)And, as usual, very minimal coverage by MSM (so far, only NYT, MSNBC, and local press)
Jit423
(1,284 posts)Skittles
(163,851 posts)it is RIDICULOUS
Celerity
(49,631 posts)Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Skittles
(163,851 posts)he makes me SICK
LymphocyteLover
(7,902 posts)Hassler
(4,288 posts)Mark.b2
(549 posts)they are so often associated with so much seediness! They shouldnt be allowed for anyone whos given so much as a dime to the pardoner or be of any relation to them.
Grok tells me Trump has already given 1,700 pardons so far in this term alone. Ridiculous! I can only imagine how large that will be by 2028!
pansypoo53219
(22,165 posts)sakabatou
(44,681 posts)neeksgeek
(1,231 posts)"reinforces the perception reality that the rich get away with it and the poor go to prison."
Baitball Blogger
(49,903 posts)I bet he's pissed.