Bond was set at $50 million by a federal judge on Friday for a convicted former skilled nursing facility owner Philip Esformes being retried on unresolved Medicare fraud charges. 

Florida judge Robert N. Scola Jr. also ordered that Esformes surrender all passport and travel documents, and not obtain any of those documents during the case in addition to the personal surety bond, court documents showed. The bond was co-signed by Esformers’ father and three children. Law360 first reported the bond hearing.

Esformes is being retried by federal prosecutors after his 20 year sentence for his role in record healthcare fraud scheme was commuted by President Donald Trump in December 2020. 

The commutation for Esformes left intact other aspects of his sentence, including supervised release and restitution. He previously had been ordered to pay $44 million to the Medicare program, which he is appealing.

Esformes was sentenced in September 2019 to 20 years in prison for a Medicare fraud scheme that he ran through his network of nursing homes. He was accused of bribing doctors to admit patients and then cycled them through his nursing and assisted living facilities, where they often received medically unnecessary services, or no care at all, according to the Department of Justice.  

In April of that year, a jury found him guilty on 20 charges for bribery, money laundering and paying and receiving kickbacks in connection to the $1.3 billion scheme that occurred between 1998 and 2016.