Joseph Swartz, the New York City-area former owner of several nursing homes throughout Northeast Arkansas, may have been pardoned by the president, but that doesn’t absolve him of his convictions in state court, a spokesman for Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said Monday.

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