This is part two of “Medicaid Millionaires,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The front doors are open, but inside, the seven massive complexes appear to be largely abandoned. Smoke detectors chirp for new batteries. No one is there to change them. Some office doors have signs suggesting the owner is out to lunch, but the piles of mail outside tell a different story. Stray cats have taken up residence in the parking lots.
The government is under the impression that all of the office buildings hold thriving health care businesses.
The seven buildings along East Dublin Granville Road in Columbus, Ohio, are filled with hundreds of office suites, all owned by a company named Cordoba Real Estate. A large majority of the tenants in the buildings bill Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded medical program for the impoverished, as a “home health care” business that provides low-skilled, usually non-medical care to elderly or disabled people.
The Daily Wire has spent weeks analyzing Medicaid data released by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency in an effort to weed out wasteful government spending. The buildings owned by Cordoba stuck out, each housing dozens of businesses that bill Medicaid.
In all, the Cordoba-owned buildings in Columbus housed 288 businesses registered with Medicaid, The Daily Wire investigation found. Together, they charged taxpayers more than a quarter of a billion dollars between 2018 and 2024. That’s in a city where only 6,273 people 75 or older are on Medicaid.
The Medicaid program has exploded in Ohio thanks to a waiver that expanded the medical program to include wide-ranging at-home services such as “homemaking,” allowing taxpayer money to be spent for tasks such as making the bed or working on a hairdo.
Ohio has 3,700 companies with “Home Health” in their name, according to a review of Ohio business records. In particular, it’s blown up in Columbus, which is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States. The program has little oversight, with most of the so-called care happening inside individual homes, making it susceptible to fraud and abuse.
2700 East Dublin Granville, where 80 Medicaid companies billed $73 million.
There’s no evidence to indicate that Cordoba has any role in the Medicaid companies housed in its buildings. It sold two of the seven buildings this January.
Yet the home health businesses have been established as if by a machine, with some sharing nearly identical signs that suggest coordination rather than rivalry.
One sign for National Home Health Care Services LLC explained that the home Medicaid businesses often don’t provide healthcare at all; they provide services like “companionship & conversation” and “light housekeeping.” Next to it hung a sign proclaiming “we are on break right now.”
Another sign for Guidance Home Health Care LLC was graphically identical, even with the same slogan: “Your Peace of Mind in Home Health Care.” Only the phone number was different.
At one Cordoba building, I finally located a rare home health business with someone in it: GC Home Healthcare LLC. Asked how he recruits employees, Abid, the owner’s son, said employees and patients come as a package: in 70% of cases, the employees are being paid to spend time with their own family members, he explained.
“Usually the patient, they have someone in their family that has the qualifications to be an aide — CPR and everything — so they just come to us,” after getting a note from a doctor vouching for the elder’s need for personal services, he explained.
The family member of an elderly person isn’t set up to bill Medicaid, so a company stands in the middle. “We’re taking a small cut because [Medicaid] pay us and we pay them their hours,” Abid explained.
He said the number of hours depends on the doctor’s recommendation, but it is often an hour a day. “You expect them to take time off work to take care of their relatives, there has to be some sort of benefit,” he added.
Asked why people wouldn’t simply help their aging parents without billing Medicaid, he said, “Well if the government will pay you to do it … it’s an incentive. I think most people nowadays, they don’t really care as much.”
Getting rich off taxpayer money while failing to pay taxes
Each animated graphic shows a Cordoba property along with the owners or managers of every company located inside that is billing Medicaid, as well as the names of any other businesses in the building that received money from the state of Ohio. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, so some of the state total may be included in the Medicaid figure. The data comes from federal Medicaid and Ohio spending records.
Inside this Cordoba property at 5900 Roche Drive, many of the businesses have signs saying the employees are on break — but there are indications that might be a ruse.
It’s clear that no one has been entering JLL Home Healthcare LLC, where the door doesn’t even have a doorknob. It’s adorned with a “Sorry We’re Closed” sign and features the bizarre slogan, “Steaming To Assist.”
It was incorporated by Kofi Adoma, who also owns a trucking business called JLL Transportation & Logistics, records show.
Down the hall at 1st Choice Home Health Care LLC, when we visited there was an envelope sitting by the door, postmarked five months prior, from the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Vetting such a business would be almost impossible: In Medicaid records, its CEO is a person named Ahmed Ahmed, with no middle name.
Another company, Medina Home Healthcare, led by Nirmala Adhikari, received $410,000 from the state of Ohio and $22 million from Medicaid. Its billing topped out at nearly a million dollars in one month in December 2023.
Its website is a dead link, and it hasn’t posted to its Facebook page since September 2024. Its last post says the author was transitioning to helping people write essays to get into college in the United States. His LinkedIn says he lives in India but majored in feminism and social justice at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
With so many companies, all virtually indistinguishable from one another, lacking websites or advertising, and charging the same Medicaid rates, the question arises: How do they recruit patients? Billing patterns show rapid and unusual growth.
ZNC Health Care (owner Isaac Amoako, $11 million) had 93 claims in September 2018, then suddenly 1,065 the next month, according to the data. An audit found that 56% of ZNC’s Medicaid payments didn’t match up with its staff’s electronic records; the auditor did not recommend any repayments after ZNC said its “employees are confused.”
Moonlight Home Health Care, run by Sasi Kaza, took $9 million. Moonlight’s office was not just closed when The Daily Wire visited, but there was nothing inside. It billed around $20,000 a month until skyrocketing to more than $500,000 a month in December 2023, the records show.
Like a shocking number of the home health care firms, it appears to have failed to pay its own taxes — taking millions in taxpayer money but refusing to return to Uncle Sam even his share of corporate profits. Tax records reviewed by The Daily Wire show Moonlight has seven state tax liens against it, totaling $70,000, from 2022 through December 2025.
That’s despite the fact that Kaza was, in fact, moonlighting: He was simultaneously running Comprehensive Behavioral Health Associates in Youngstown, Ohio, which billed $32 million for “community psychiatric supportive treatment.” The latter company has its own $600,000 federal tax lien against it, and a website that contains only stock art and doesn’t contain the name of a single doctor or employee or their qualifications.
With those companies seemingly in trouble, Kaza has leaned into the industry. In January 2025, he established Lifeline Home Support, registered to the same exact Roche Drive address as Moonlight.
Somali politician finds “the true American dream” in Medicaid millions
At 2700 East Dublin, there are 80 companies that collectively billed at least $73 million to Medicaid and received $23 million from the state of Ohio. Eleven billed more than $1 million.
Two claim Suite A alone: Continental Home Health Care, Inc., led by Dequa Mohamed, which, according to government records, billed $15 million, and Dynamic Home Health Care, owned by Said Ahmed, who the government paid $10 million. Bernard Konadu’s Buckeye Health Agency charged $15 million, according to the records. An audit found that it billed the government for visiting people at home when that was highly unlikely, because the same people were simultaneously in the hospital.
Down the hall is Omega Home Health Care Services, which charged taxpayers $11 million between December 2017 and October 2024, the time period for which data is publicly available.
A picture of a flyer posted by the company says it provides services like “hair care” and “home making,” which entails “cleaning” and “bed making.”
Omega was incorporated in 2011 by Mohamud A. Jama, a Democratic politician. Jama founded a newspaper called the Somali Post and a Somali coffee house, and has been affiliated with the Somali Education Resource Center, which also received $6 million in federal dollars in 2023, all on top of raising nine children and working as an engineer.
When he ran for state senate as the Democrat nominee in 2024, the multimillion-dollar home health business didn’t even get a mention in his biography.
“Jama came to the United States as a refugee seeking a better life. Now, just 25 years later he is part of the true American dream where freedom, opportunity and hard work can give any American a chance to achieve,” his campaign website said. Jama lost to a Republican. In April, he boasted on social media that he met with Mahad Salad, the head of Somalia’s intelligence agency.
He previously ran in the Democrat primaries for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2020 and 2022. His campaigns were boosted by the home healthcare industry, with at least 44 donations coming from home healthcare companies or their owners. Unlike most political campaigns, he ended up spending less than he raised, ending the latest campaign with $31,000 left in his campaign account.
Jama started the Medicaid business on the side when he was in college, he told The Daily Wire.
“Anyone can have a business and can have another job so long [as] he has good team,” he said. He said he sold the business years ago; incorporation paperwork suggests the sale was in October 2019. Omega was making up to $90,000 each month before the sale, according to the federal Medicaid data.
In August 2025, Omega underwent a routine audit of a sample of its records by Franklin County’s independent auditor, which found some impossible claims. In some cases, on the same day that Omega said it went to people’s houses to take care of them, hospitals also billed Medicaid because they were inpatients there. “Omega declined to submit an official response,” the auditor noted.
Instead of concrete repercussions, the auditor simply recommended that Omega refund $1,000 to cover the cases where Medicaid’s own data proved the impossibility of home visits. As for the millions of dollars in other claims, the program would simply take Omega’s word for it.
On Facebook, Jama said he works as an engineer at Whirlpool, and that he was fired from a previous job where he was “underpaid because of [his] skin color,” but that he did not complain about the financial impact because “what they do not know is that you built a side business … with close to 100 people on your team.”
Millions for part-time work?
At 1425 East Dublin, One Community Mental Health LLC, run by Roberta Acheampong, billed 70,000 claims totaling $8 million, according to the data reviewed. The Daily Wire roamed the building but saw no physical presence.
The home health industry is not her first business tied to taxpayer funds. In 2019, Acheampong created Royals African International Food Market Inc., but soon a lien was placed against it by the Economic & Community Development Institute, which gives federally-funded loans for “social and economic change.”
She incorporated Nahsek Interpreting Services LLC, which three months later changed its name to Royals Cleaning Services LLC. In September 2020, the cleaning service changed its name to One Community Mental Health LLC. This time, she struck gold.
In its first month of billing Medicaid, it had $96,000 worth of instant clients without so much as a website. By January 2023, it was charging taxpayers $654,000 a month for “therapeutic behavioral services,” “psychosocial rehabilitation services,” and “community psychiatric supportive treatment,” the billing records reviewed by The Daily Wire show.
With government money flowing in, Acheampong, whose business was cleaning houses a few months earlier, bought a $1.1 million home in a gated community in Powell, Ohio, records indicate. The Daily Wire visited the home to speak to Acheampong, but it was empty and listed for sale.
In February 2021, she created the nonprofit 1st Access Community Resources, for “Providing Community Base [sic] Case Management Services.” The filing paperwork was also sent to the food market. The nonprofit was quickly abandoned. In December 2022, Acheampong incorporated Little Stars of America Learning Center LLC. Its address was listed as the address of the aforementioned African market.
Soon, she had another for-profit company, One Community Developmental Support Services LLC, listed under the category of residential treatment facilities. Spending data for that category isn’t public.
‘I don’t know anything about it’
Merciful Healthcare Services, registered to Mohammed Ahmed at 1395 East Dublin, was paid $9.7 million from Medicaid. It received about $75,000 a month for most of 2023, rising to $500,000 in January 2024, according to the data.
An audit, like many others in the industry, found some cases where it billed for home visits that couldn’t have happened because the patient was actually in the hospital. The Daily Wire knocked on the door and asked a simple question: “What goes into a home healthcare business?”
“I’m not an employee and I don’t know anything about what you are talking about,” a man replied.
“You’re not an employee, but you’re in the office?”
“I’m an employee, but I don’t know anything about it,” he said.
“What did you do for the $10 million?”
“I don’t know,” he said as he slammed the door.
Unreal client growth — from a closet
Legitimate businesses typically take time to ramp up as they fight for clients, especially in an oversaturated market. Yet somehow, Columbus home health care companies managed to have seemingly hundreds of clients the moment they opened their doors.
At 2999 East Dublin, Atlas Home Health (Maymuna Ahmed, $6.5 million) first appeared in Medicaid data in August 2019, bringing in $57,000 in its first month.
Firms often exhibited drastic swings in revenue. For example, Horizon Healthcare Services (Joana Quainoo, $5.8 million) billed $155,000 in October 2022, $75,000 a month for most of 2023, and $180,000 a month for most of 2024.
When The Daily Wire showed up on the scene, Horizon turned out to be based out of what appeared to be a closet — a door with no window inside of another room. It was dark inside, and no one answered a knock.
‘I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist’
There are indications that seemingly separate companies may actually be connected. At 1495 Morse, The Daily Wire knocked on the door of one company — North Star Home Healthcare LLC, which received $265,000 — and said it was doing a story on the home health care industry.
The woman went through a rear passageway that connected it to another office — a trucking company — to which she redirected questions.
The man from Ultra Logistics LLC was immediately irate and said, “The owner is not right here … Why are you guys looking special for only Somalians? Why do you knock on only Somalian doors?”
Told the reporters were knocking on all doors with taxpayer payments in home health, he sneered, “Journalist? Who cares, journalist …You guys don’t pay our bills.”
“Blah blah blah blah, we don’t need you guys. We know people to talk to,” he said. “I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist people.”
From bankruptcy to $84,000 a month
At 1415 East Dublin, Ohio, state taxpayers have sent $10 million to F & R Healthcare Services LLC at Suite 211, and $7 million to B & F Healthcare Services LLC in Suite 212, according to the data released by the government. Neither company, however, shows up in Medicaid or Ohio corporation records.
Never exceeding 17 patients according to data released by the federal government, New Life Home Care LLC made $1.5 million between August 2020 and November 2024.
It is owned by Godwin Kwasi Owusu, a licensed practical nurse who filed for bankruptcy in 2012, saying he owned no property and had just $400 to his name. Things changed the next year: All he had to do was incorporate an LLC in Ohio.
In May 2024, the company had 16 patients and received $84,000 from Medicaid that month, according to the federal Medicaid database. (The Daily Wire asked the Ohio Department of Medicaid if the data was accurate, and it did not dispute it.)
Who’s behind Cordoba?
Of the five buildings in Columbus with the most Medicaid companies, three are owned by Cordoba Real Estate Group LLC, which is managed by New Jersey men Israel Steinberg and Isaac Nasar, according to business records.
Nasar told The Daily Wire that he doesn’t have visibility into what the businesses are doing inside his buildings.
“I am just a landlord,” Nasar, who lives in a multimillion-dollar house and owns multiple airplanes, said. “I don’t have the slightest clue what tenants are billing out. It’s not really my purview.” Steinberg did not return a request for comment.
There has been controversy surrounding the company’s other properties in Ohio.
In 2008, the same pair were part of the ownership group for an apartment complex in Columbus that suffered an electrical fire that killed five. In 2014, a four-year-old was killed after falling into an open oven that the tenant had resorted to using to heat the home — police said it was the only available source of heat, according to the Columbus Dispatch, which characterized the apartment complex as a “slum” and a “very bad place to live.” Steinberg and Nasar were credited by the apartment complex for working to fix the “troubled” property they inherited, the report says.
In 2009, Steinberg was also working for a company at the center of a mortgage and real estate scam that culminated in a suspect committing suicide in a cemetery. At the center was a developer called Stillwater, which received loans from a firm called I.L. Kesef to fix up run-down houses.
“The fix-up money disappeared and the houses remained boarded up and broken down,” according to a report, also from the Columbus Dispatch.
Kesef’s Larry Kushner was arrested for unrelated real estate fraud charges in New Jersey at the same time that problems became apparent in Columbus; Stillwater then hired Kushner’s colleague, Steinberg, to “clean up the mess,” the Dispatch reported. “Steinberg was paid more than $300,000 in fees from Parkview in 2004 and received a $4.5 million Stillwater loan in 2005, but he never was implicated,” it said. Steinberg was not implicated in any of the firm’s wrongdoing, according to the report.
Now, Steinberg is the unlikely figure at the center, tying together hundreds of companies billing Medicaid.
Parker Thayer, an investigator for the Capital Research Center, contributed reporting.
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