The former owner of Skyline Healthcare will stand trial next year on allegations that he perpetuated a nearly $39 million fraud that played into the collapse of his quickly assembled, multi-state nursing home portfolio.

During a brief hearing Thursday, Judge Susan Wigenton of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey set a Feb. 18 trial date for Joseph Schwartz.

In May, Wigenton rejected a plea deal between Schwartz and the US Attorney’s Office. That deal had called for Schwartz to spend a year and one day in prison and pay $5 million in restitution.

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