Five Indian-origin individuals feature in President Biden’s clemency list

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President Joe Biden granted clemency to over 1,500 individuals, including five Indian-origin people, on December 12.

This consisted of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations.

Among the Indian-origin individuals to receive clemency were Shelinder Aggarwal, Meera Sachdeva, Babubhai Patel, Krishna Mote, and Vikram Datta.

As per reports, Aggarwal was sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegally prescribing controlled substances and conducting health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine tests. The verdict was read out on February 7, 2017.

Sachdeva, received her sentence on December 6, 2012. Sachdeva, who owned and operated Rose Cancer Center in Summit, pled guilty in July, 2012, to submitting claims for chemotherapy services that were supposedly rendered when she was out of the country. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.

She was also ordered to pay a $250,000 fine and restitution in the amount of $8,168,524.72. The forfeiture of approximately $6 million and four parcels of property was also ordered.

Patel, a Detroit-based pharmacist, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 2012. He was guilty of committing a $57 million healthcare fraud scheme. Patel was also ordered to pay $18.8 million in restitution.

Mote was convicted after a three-day jury trial in December 2012 of conspiracy to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine and more than 500 grams of cocaine, and distribution of crack cocaine as an aider and abettor. He was sentenced on May 15, 2013, to serve life in prison by Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley.

Datta, the owner of multiple retail perfume stores located on the United States-Mexico border, was found guilty on September 27, 2011 of money laundering crimes related to the use of his perfume distribution business to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican narcotics organization. Datta was arrested on January 15, 2011, after a meeting in Manhattan with an undercover agent. He was convicted after a two-week jury trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in January 2012.

(Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

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