An Ohio grand jury this week indicted an African couple living in Ohio on charges of Medicaid fraud, money laundering, and identity fraud — two months after The Daily Wire exposed the pair as part of its Medicaid Millions series.
But it was too late: the couple had already returned to their native Africa, highlighting the vulnerabilities of paying millions of dollars to foreign-born providers of dubious Medicaid services.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson announced on Wednesday that Roberta Acheampong, 39, and her husband, Godfred Owusu-Sekyere, 46, face &#8220;12 felony charges for allegedly defrauding Ohio’s Medicaid program of $9.3 million.&#8221; He said investigators believe the couple is now living in Kenya or Ghana.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/c/7/c79480c8-8424-4bd6-ad5b-fa1245c997a4/778A933D6B0FE2859B0CA5D5142925B70AF508FDF2F813729C692B4C2B8F9B5B.rosiak-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> to the U.S. Senate specifically on Acheampong, describing the fraudster as &#8220;a janitor who changed the name of her janitorial LLC to One Community Mental Health, then billed the government $100,000 in the first month. It later billed up to $650,000 a month. Meanwhile she started a daycare and an addiction treatment center. Then she left the country.&#8221;
Wilson, in his statement on the felony charges, said they were the result of &#8220;a complex, years-long investigation&#8221; that &#8220;revealed widespread fraudulent billing tied to One Community Mental Health, a &#8216;behavioral-health clinic&#8217; that the couple owned and operated in Ohio.
&#8220;The two allegedly exploited refugees seeking resettlement services, billing Medicaid multiple times a week for entire households, without their knowledge, for unnecessary mental health and therapeutic behavioral services that were never provided,&#8221; the attorney general said. &#8220;They are also accused of forging documents and stealing the identities of translation and transportation staff members to submit fraudulent Medicaid claims under their names.&#8221;
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His office also said that banking records show Acheampong used the &#8220;stolen&#8221; funds to &#8220;finance a lavish lifestyle, including purchases of real estate and a Porsche.&#8221;
The charges come just a few months after the Daily Wire&#8217;s May 5 story, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million</a>, in which the business was identified as one of the most eyebrow-raising businesses in a pocket of Ohio where Medicaid fraud runs rampant.
<blockquote>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 <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201910902672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Royals African International Food Market Inc.</a>, but soon a lien was placed against it by the Economic &amp; Community Development Institute, which gives federally-funded loans for “social and economic change.”
She <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201928703278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incorporated</a> Nahsek Interpreting Services LLC, which three months later <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202001304324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed its name</a> to Royals Cleaning Services LLC. In September 2020, the cleaning service changed its name to <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202024704316" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Community Mental Health LLC</a>. 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 <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202236304092" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incorporated</a> 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.</blockquote>
Since her companies didn&#8217;t seem to exist at their offices, The Daily Wire visited Acheampong&#8217;s home, on a luxury private lane, and found it empty and for sale.
A neighbor told us that the realtor selling Acheampong&#8217;s house said she had left the country and was liquidating all of her assets in the United States. Hours after The Daily Wire story published mentioning Acheampong, the home was taken off the market.
&#8220;Who buys a million-plus dollar home and never opens the blinds and never has a light on?&#8221; the neighbor said.
This reporter also raised the Acheampong example to the <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-119hhrg63891/pdf/CHRG-119hhrg63891.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. House of Representatives</a>:
<blockquote>Chairman COMER. You also reported companies with rapid and unusual growth. Should state oversight authorities have been alarmed by these trends?
Mr. ROSIAK. Yes. I mean, for example, there was a janitor who renamed her LLC to be Mental Health and started billing Medicaid $100,000 in the first month, later up to $650,000 in one month, and then she left the country. And so, if you were to start a roofing business, it takes time to build clients. How do you get $100,000 in business the first month? That is something people could ask.
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Mr. GILL. What are some of these names that you come across? Do you hear the same names, or are they different names?
Mr. ROSIAK. Yes, it is funny because this started off, I was investigating a guy named Robert Acheampong. And then I found a different scammer named Roberta Acheampong. And I thought they were related, but they were not. It is just that is how common it is to scam Medicaid when your name is Acheampong.</blockquote>
Investigators may still have more to look into: The indicted husband&#8217;s name is Godfred Owusu-Sekyere.
Someone with the same last name has billed Medicaid more than $12 million for home health care in Virginia. Abena Owusu-Sekyere runs 1st Option Home Health in Woodbridge, Virginia, which has billed nearly $300,000 a month for &#8220;personal care services,&#8221; the Medicaid code which means that people who are not nurses act as servants to people in their homes, doing tasks like cooking and cleaning. Abena also runs a second home-health company, Gracestar Health Services.
The Daily Wire has found that the people getting paid for &#8220;personal services&#8221; are often refugees and migrants who live in multi-generational households and claim the older generation is disabled, resulting in payments to themselves for simply conducting normal family tasks in their own home.
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Roberta Acheampong’s House

African Medicaid Scammers Exposed By Daily Wire Indicted For Fraud, Flee To Africa

Fraud

Luke Rosiak

Medicaid Millionaires

Ohio

A crackdown on fraud in Ohio&#8217;s home-health program is poised to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine after the bill passed the state&#8217;s House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. The legislation addresses Medicaid abuse unearthed by a Daily Wire investigation.
Democrat Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney told <a href="https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-06-10/lawmakers-easily-approve-ohio-medicaid-changes-after-earlier-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statehouse News Bureau</a> that “Going through this process, I can say I was generally bewildered by some of the shortcomings and gaps within Medicaid.”
State Rep. Jennifer Gross (R), chair of the House Medicaid Committee, told The Daily Wire that the House and Senate sent a unified bill to the governor on June 24 for his signature. The governor has 10 days to sign bills, so he must sign it this week, she said.
After The Daily Wire&#8217;s series &#8220;Medicaid Millions&#8221; ran in May, as the Ohio legislature was wrapping up its session, the Senate added Medicaid reforms to an in-progress <a href="https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/sb315/05_EN/pdf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> targeting food stamp fraud.
Gross said the move is &#8220;a major step forward,&#8221; saying it delivers in-person provider inspections, strong electronic visit verification, tougher penalties for fraud, and oversight tools that &#8220;will protect taxpayer dollars and safeguard services for those who truly need them, we know this is only the beginning.&#8221;
The law requires the state to &#8220;deny, refuse to revalidate, suspend, or terminate a provider agreement&#8221; if the company is &#8220;located at the same address as more than six other active home and community-based services Medicaid providers.&#8221; That&#8217;s a response to The Daily Wire&#8217;s finding that a single building housed 94 Medicaid companies, while seven other buildings, once owned by the same landlord, housed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">288 companies</a>.
It also requires an in-person review of a company before it is authorized, as well as every three years.
To address issues with shell ownership or silent partners, providers must &#8220;disclose to the department the identity of each person with at least a five per cent direct or indirect ownership interest.&#8221;
The state must check those ownership disclosures against lists of people who have been convicted of fraud or sanctioned by the government in the past, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-convicted-fraudster-running-a-million-dollar-medicaid-business">Alieu Conteh</a>, who started a $1 million home health care company after being convicted of fraud multiple times. Conteh told The Daily Wire, &#8220;I was just too dumb I didn’t even know what is law.”
Providers shall also be denied if they previously owned another company that defrauded the government, or reside with someone who did, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-convicted-for-defrauding-the-government-now-medicaid-pays-his-wife-millions">Esther Acheampong</a>, whom The Daily Wire revealed was paid more than $5 million by Ohio Medicaid after her husband was convicted of related fraud and she opened up a business in her name.
Medicaid fraud is now elevated to a high-level felony instead of a low-level felony or misdemeanor.
The bill requires the Ohio Department of Medicaid to use GPS to track whether providers actually visit elderly clients and publish public reports about how many payments were blocked due to the data not supporting them.
The Daily Wire revealed that although Congress required states to implement Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) by 2020, Ohio had spent hundreds of millions of dollars setting up a system, but continued paying claims even when it wasn&#8217;t used. About half of the providers turned off their GPS tracking.
The bill also orders the Medicaid department to investigate any time the number of payments doubles in a month. The Daily Wire found numerous companies whose billing skyrocketed in ways that were inconsistent with organically building a business.
The legislation requires &#8220;prior authorization&#8221; of home health care spending, limits it to the minimum time necessary for documented ailments, and says the Department of Medicaid &#8220;shall develop and implement automated fraud-detection tools&#8230; capable of flagging irregular patterns.&#8221;
Top House lawmakers offered an aggressive several-hundred-page bill to overhaul the home-health program, including barring family members from being paid to care for their own relatives — a top reason for the increase in people claiming to need care. A bill offered by Rep. Josh Williams that required GPS tracking became the vehicle for those major reforms.
But the final bill was more modest, focusing primarily on requiring GPS tracking to ensure that purported caregivers were actually near their patients. The watered-down version came after dozens of disability activists and companies testified to lawmakers, and as a compromise with the more moderate Senate.
Family members are still exempt from GPS, and non-relatives only need to check in and check out using GPS rather than be tracked in real time during their shift, which is what Williams&#8217; House bill originally proposed.
Williams called the new law &#8220;a step in the right direction toward restoring accountability and integrity to Ohio&#8217;s Medicaid system. Requiring prior authorization for personal services waivers, limited to only the minimum amount of time necessary, helps ensure that services are truly needed and appropriately tailored to each recipient. Likewise, strengthening electronic visit verification and GPS requirements provides greater assurance that caregivers are actually making contact with Medicaid recipients and delivering the services taxpayers are funding.&#8221;
The final bill creates a &#8220;high-risk&#8221; designation under which companies with repeated suspicious patterns or violations would have to use &#8220;fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, vocal recognition, a secure personal identification number, or other approved verification method as a condition of receiving payment.&#8221; That addresses concerns that even GPS technology is easily thwarted.
The legislation also encourages employees to come forward with evidence of fraud, saying that if they are fired as a result, they can seek damages. And it requires the insurance companies that administer Medicaid in Ohio to report all instances of possible fraud to the attorney general.
Gov. DeWine is not permitted to amend the bill, only to veto it, Gross said. DeWine, a moderate Republican, made headlines this week when he vetoed Republicans&#8217; voter ID law and lambasted the Trump administration for terminating a temporary program for Haitians.
DeWine is unlikely to veto the bill because the compromise version is already watered down, and the GPS requirements codify a pledge from DeWine&#8217;s own administration to begin requiring them.
Other reforms that were <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=28390" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stripped out</a> of the House&#8217;s original overhaul include:
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<li class="md-list-item">Giving 10% of the recovery to tipsters who disclose fraud</li>
<li class="md-list-item">Creating a Medicaid Program Integrity Fund that uses recovered fraud proceeds to fund more fraud detection</li>
<li class="md-list-item">Giving the inspector general more police powers</li>
<li class="md-list-item">Permitting a court to require a convicted Medicaid fraudster to pay more restitution</li>
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The reform does not focus on doctors and nurses who write paperwork claiming someone is severely ill when they are not. The law still allows nurse practitioners to conduct the examinations used to authorize home health care, instead of requiring physicians or specialists. Doctors were originally required, but nurses were added during COVID and never removed.
Following The Daily Wire&#8217;s Medicaid Millions series, this reporter testified to the Ohio House and the U.S. House and Senate. Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, traveled to Columbus to rail against the 288 companies on one road and the refugee Medicaid company owner whom The Daily Wire found drinking champagne on a private jet.
Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s anti-fraud task force implemented a six-month moratorium on new home health companies, and the Ohio Department of Medicaid suspended 50 firms, half of them from the addresses mentioned in The Daily Wire&#8217;s series.
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Former President Trump Holds Rally In Support Of Ohio Senate Candidate JD Vance

Ohio Legislature Passes Medicaid Fraud Crackdown After Daily Wire Exposé

As America heads into the Fourth of July weekend marking America&#8217;s 250th birthday, the city hall of Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating differently.
Columbus is hoisting the flag of Somalia, a foreign government, on Wednesday and celebrating its independence, according to a government department&#8217;s social media feed.
&#8220;Happy Somali Independence Day! 💙 As we celebrate the unification of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of Somaliland into the Somali Republic in 1960, City Hall will be raising the flag of Somalia,&#8221; the city&#8217;s Parks and Rec department said on social media.
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The department deleted the post moments after The Daily Wire asked Parks and Rec and City Hall about it. Neither department immediately replied to questions.
Columbus <a href="https://x.com/ColumbusGov">City Hall&#8217;s X account</a> has celebrated Juneteenth and Pride Month, but said nothing about America&#8217;s 250th. In June 2023, the council passed a <a href="https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6268758&amp;GUID=54FB2E4D-5DB2-4CFC-8C92-5584B9A928DB">resolution</a> to fly Somalia&#8217;s flag. In June 2025, it <a href="https://columbus.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7449262&amp;GUID=3EFEE861-BDBD-443B-B5BC-EDBB64237C38&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=Somalia">passed</a> a resolution &#8220;To Recognize and Celebrate July 1st as Somali Independence Day in the City of Columbus.&#8221;
Columbus is home to the second-largest concentration of Somalis in the United States after Minnesota. The Daily Wire spent time in Columbus after Medicaid records showed some of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">flagrant red flags in the country</a>. Those home-health firms turned out to be run largely by Somalis, to the point where one man said it was racist to ask about Medicaid spending because it was so closely intertwined with Somali identity.
Ohio&#8217;s Medicaid spending has doubled over the last decade, leading to a financial crisis.
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Ohio is facing a budget crisis due to Medicaid. Here&#8217;s one man&#8217;s thoughts, told to <a href="https://x.com/ParkerThayer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ParkerThayer</a> and I:
&#8220;Blah blah blah&#8230; Journalists, who cares, journalists? Do you pay my bills? &#8230; (ominously) We know people to talk to&#8230;. I&#8217;m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/h5is7FnT5x">pic.twitter.com/h5is7FnT5x</a>
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) <a href="https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/2062272663532290126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Other recipients of government grants in Columbus painted a grim picture of Somalis, saying many claimed to be disabled and were illiterate or drug addicts, to the point where some foreigners were being paid by the government to help other foreigners fill out disability and welfare forms.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, traveled to Columbus to address the rampant fraud, calling the city &#8220;a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-massive-anti-fraud-strike-force-lands-in-ohio">Mecca for Somalian populations</a>. &#8230; We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn’t follow them here.&#8221;
The unanswered questions posed to Columbus officials included:
<ul>
<li>Is it inappropriate for a government building to fly the flag of a foreign country?</li>
<li>Where did the idea to promote a Somali holiday originate from?</li>
<li>Is there a conflict between Somalis being brought to Columbus as refugees because their home is uninhabitable, and celebrating that nation’s independence day?</li>
<li>Do you think it&#8217;s odd to celebrate a foreign country heading into America&#8217;s 250th birthday? What days will or is the Somali flag flying? What is city hall doing for America&#8217;s independence?</li>
</ul>

Somali flag

On America’s 250th, Red State’s Capital City Celebrates… Somalia

America 250

Somalia

Somalis

A massive show of federal force descended on Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday following a Daily Wire investigation into Medicaid, with top Trump administration officials including Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and the head of Medicaid Dr. Mehmet Oz on the ground to announce major anti-fraud initiatives.
At a joint press conference in Columbus, the administration officials announced several steps that are being taken to eliminate fraud in the state.
Forty-nine home health care firms have been suspended (most of them <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-suspends-dozens-of-medicaid-home-health-firms-highlighted-in-daily-wire-investigation">in the buildings</a> highlighted in our stories), and one was raided Thursday morning, Dr. Oz said. He specifically mentioned The Daily Wire&#8217;s findings, saying &#8220;there&#8217;s a road here very close to where we are [with] <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">288 facilities</a> in one block,&#8221; and &#8220;no more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/refugees-from-bhutan-billed-medicaid-millions-now-they-drink-champagne-in-private-jets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">champagne on private jets</a>.&#8221;
The press conference came a day after the House Oversight Committee spotlighted the Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting, in which task force chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-witness-almost-brought-to-tears-after-luke-rosiaks-medicaid-fraud-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Gill</a> drilled down into the abuse&#8217;s connection to refugee communities.
Oz highlighted that connection.
&#8220;This is a Mecca for Somalian populations, it&#8217;s a hub for the Bhutanese and Nepalese. We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn&#8217;t follow them here,&#8221; he said.
The assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, Colin McDonald, said that Ohio&#8217;s attorney general will announce an $11 million action from the state&#8217;s Medicaid fraud control unit, that Ohio&#8217;s secretary of state has signed a data-sharing agreement giving investigators access to corporate ownership records, and that State Auditor Keith Faber has applied to have federal fraud investigators detailed to the state.
&#8220;To the people of Ohio, if someone offers you a medical perk that sounds too good to be true, it is,&#8221; McDonald said. &#8220;We are resolved to till every field and turn over every rock to bring [fraudsters] to justice.&#8221;
There were numerous announcements of fraud in various fields in the state. Dominick Gerace, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, announced a $30 million Medicaid fraud prosecution involving non-existent autism care. He said a home health care company in Columbus was raided Thursday morning, but that he would not be sharing details.
&#8220;This task force is going to operate similar to how we operate in the violent crime space, we&#8217;re going to inject a sense of urgency,&#8221; he said.
Dave Toepfer, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said five individuals from Ghana have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, involving swindling the elderly.
&#8220;They devised a romance scheme to establish trust and then tell stories of vast inheritances and convince the elderly to pay them, using it to buy a mansion in Ghana, a Lamborghini,&#8221; he said. Luxury cars that had been seized were on display at the press conference.
Andrew Ferguson, who co-chairs the anti-fraud task force alongside Vice President J.D. Vance, announced that major actions were being taken outside of the state to combat fraud as well. In Hawaii, he announced during the press briefing that the state&#8217;s Medicaid fraud control unit was decertified.
He said the federally-funded unit astoundingly &#8220;didn&#8217;t produce a single indictment of a fraudster from 2021 through 2026,&#8221; a near-certain sign that nobody was even looking.
Ferguson pledged a &#8220;two-pronged attack on fraudsters: DOJ will put fraudsters in jail, and the agencies will make sure we install safeguards to the money never reaches the fraudsters in the first place.&#8221;
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche&#8217;s message was clear.
&#8220;This is a good day for Ohio,&#8221; Blanche said.

Dr. Oz and Todd Blanche in Columbus

Trump’s Massive Anti-Fraud Strike Force Lands In Ohio

The state of Ohio, working in conjunction with top federal officials, is suspending 50 home health care firms in Columbus that have been billing Medicaid for millions, following a Daily Wire investigation into the fraud sector.
The Daily Wire obtained a list of the businesses that were suspended from the program. Most of the suspended firms were visited by The Daily Wire and showcased in our Medicaid Millions series. The now-suspended firms flagged in our stories collectively billed taxpayers more than $322 million since 2019.
Some of the largest billers came from our story on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/refugees-from-bhutan-billed-medicaid-millions-now-they-drink-champagne-in-private-jets">Bhutanese refugees with the name Adhikari</a>. Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, made reference to our findings about Roshan Adhikari&#8217;s life of luxury, saying there will no longer be people drinking &#8220;champagne on private jets&#8221; with the money they made off Medicaid fraud.
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Among the suspended businesses are three firms — Americare ($128 million), Serenity Home Health ($74 million), and Medina Home Healthcare ($22 million) — all owned by Dilli Adhikari, who was found to be involved with charities that appear to be funneling money overseas.
Others came from our story examining seven properties owned by one landlord, containing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">288 Medicaid companies between them that billed $250 million</a>.
Another firm that was suspended was Merciful Home Health, which was owned by Mohammed Ahmed and billed $10 million to Medicaid. When The Daily Wire visited Merciful, the man who opened the door for us falsely claimed he was not an employee and said he did not know what the company did for its money. That moment was featured in The Daily Wire&#8217;s documentary on Medicaid in Ohio.
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The story contained graphics showing the owners of the companies billing Medicaid in each of the buildings, which were identified through data analysis as hotspots for home health companies.
Another suspended firm, ZNC Home Health, was owned by Isaac Omoako and billed $11 million to Medicaid. ZNC 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 <a href="https://ohioauditor.gov/auditsearch/detail.aspx?ReportID=1257f0a7-9d19-4a4a-9283-d4878f50fe79" target="_blank" rel="noopener">didn’t match up</a> with its staff’s electronic records; the auditor did not recommend any repayments after ZNC said its “employees are confused.”
Horizon Home Health, owned by Joana Quainoo and paid $5.8 million in Medicaid payouts, was highlighted by The Daily Wire for wildly inconsistent billing. It 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 at the business, 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.
Then there was 6555 Busch Boulevard, the &#8220;black box&#8221; highlighted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-convicted-for-defrauding-the-government-now-medicaid-pays-his-wife-millions">&#8220;He Was Convicted For Defrauding The Government. Now Medicaid Pays His Wife Millions.&#8221;</a> The story noted that Omega Home Health was created by a wife after her husband had already been convicted of billing the government for fake elder services.
Both Omega Home Health, which billed Medicaid $5.7 million, and Confidential Home Health, which billed $3.1 million, were suspended by Ohio.
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SUSPENDED:
<ul>
<li>Advanced Home Health (Devendran Sriramanane) &#8211; $6 million</li>
<li>Royal Home Health (Tony Diran)</li>
<li>Great Home Health (Khadra Jama) &#8211; $4.6 million</li>
<li>Horizon Home Health (Joana Quainoo) &#8211; $5.8 million</li>
<li>Pacific Home Health (Duran Guled) &#8211; $8.1 million</li>
<li>Remedial Home Health (Hilda Agbor) &#8211; $7.1 million</li>
<li>Dynamic Home Health (Said Ahmed) &#8211; $10 million</li>
<li>Right Choice (Jodi Kail) &#8211; $1.2 million</li>
<li>Midwest Home Health ($8.2 million)</li>
<li>Nimoo Home Health ($506,000)</li>
<li>New Generations Home Health ($1.2 million)</li>
<li>LA Home Health ($8.2 million)</li>
<li>Customized HH ($660,000)</li>
<li>Progressive Home Health ($97,000)</li>
<li>FullCare Home Health ($6 million)</li>
<li>Global Home Health</li>
<li>Progressive Home Health ($97,000)</li>
<li>Zenith Home Health</li>
<li>ProCare ($565,000)</li>
</ul>
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Ohio Suspends Dozens Of Medicaid ‘Home Health’ Firms Highlighted In Daily Wire Investigation

This is part five of “Medicaid Millions,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “home health” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own relatives.
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A 29-year old former refugee in Ohio named Roshan Adhikari has become a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roshan.in.motion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media sensation</a> in Bhutan and Nepal, where many Bhutanese refugees lived, by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/roshan.adhikari.77" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documenting</a> his life of garish luxury. In January, he advertised a vanity film starring himself, and showed himself gifting a &#8220;small birthday surprise for Dad&#8221;: a new Cadillac Escalade, plus a Mercedes for mom.
Another post showed him drinking champagne in a private jet, with the caption: &#8220;Welcome Aboard AIR ROSHAN. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that a kid born in Nepal would one day reach the skies like this.&#8221;
How did Roshan make his dreams come true? He is chief operating officer of <a href="https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201712500396">Centerlight Home Care LLC</a> in Cleveland, a home health company that bills Medicaid. His father, Khadananda Adhikari, owns the company, which lacks so much as a website, but has been paid nearly <a href="https://checkbook.ohio.gov/State/Resources/PayeeSearch.aspx?search=CENTERLIGHT%20HOME%20CARE%20LLC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$17 million</a> by the state of Ohio in recent years, according to data analyzed by The Daily Wire.
His 25-year old brother, Dickson Adhikari, has his own Medicaid company, Changing Lives Home Care LLC, which was paid <a href="https://checkbook.ohio.gov/State/Resources/PayeeSearch.aspx?search=CHANGING%20LIVES%20HOME%20CARE%20LLC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$10 million</a> by Ohio. Roshan also owns Smile Transport LLC, the kind of company that drives the elderly to the doctor.
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There is little indication from Roshan’s social media that he spends much time working on these businesses in Ohio. Most of his posts are made from Nepal or from resorts in places like Miami.
Eighty-one percent of immigrants from the nation of Bhutan are <a href="https://x.com/america/status/2007871247519289637/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on welfare</a>, according to a graphic posted by President Donald Trump, the highest of any immigrant population in the country. Ohio, and specifically its capital city of Columbus, has the largest Bhutanese population in the world outside of Bhutan. It appears that some members of the 19% who are not on welfare may be drafting financially off the many who are taking government money.
In Ohio alone, people with the last name Adhikari, a Bhutanese name, have been paid more than $350 million by the government for operating home health and adult daycare businesses, a Daily Wire analysis of Medicaid and Ohio spending records found.
The money from just that one clan, in just one state, amounts to about 10% of the annual <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/bhutan-gdp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GDP</a> of the south Asian nation.
The Facebook page of Roshan Adhikari&#8217;s father, who did not return a request for comment, says he is employed as a translator for Catholic Charities. Business records show he also owns a run-down convenience store which has failed to pay state taxes every year since 2022. He separately has tax liens against him personally for failing to pay Cuyahoga County taxes.
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Yet taxpayers have certainly been paying him. So handsomely that in 2023, Roshan and his father incorporated Lux Charters LLC.
Reached by The Daily Wire, Roshan said he could not talk because he was getting on an international flight. When we called back a few days later, he hung up as soon as I introduced myself.
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<h3>Refugee Idol</h3>
Some of the Medicaid millions are leaving the country. Individual home health care companies have affiliate charities which can funnel money abroad, all while providing tax benefits.
One home health company, the Himalayan Care Center, has been paid <a href="https://checkbook.ohio.gov/State/Resources/PayeeSearch.aspx?search=AMERICARE%20HEALTHCARE%20SERVICES" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$346,000</a> by Ohio. It shares an address with its “partner” group, the <a href="https://www.ourkalyanfoundation.org/news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kalyan Foundation</a>, which on its website shows food being delivered to Nepal out of a warehouse with its banner on it.
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In another example, former refugee Dilli Ram Adhikari owns three home health care companies that have collectively been paid a quarter billion dollars by Medicaid in recent years: Americare Healthcare Services in Blacklick, Ohio; Intra-National Home Care in Etna, Ohio; and Serenity Home Health Agency in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. (In January 2025, Americare was ordered to pay <a href="https://nepyork.com/2025/02/17/former-bhutanese-refugee-dilli-adhikaris-ohio-based-company-to-pay-15-million-in-unpaid-wages-and-damages-confirms-dol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$15 million</a> after the Department of Labor said it underpaid workers.)
Dilli also owns millions of dollars worth of real estate, such as a building in St. Paul, Minnesota, that houses <a href="https://licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us/Details.aspx?l=1099211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity Adult Day Care</a> and the Bhutanese Community <a href="https://www.bhutanesemn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Organization</a> of Minnesota.
No one answered the phone or replied to voicemails at several companies connected to Dilli.
Dilli’s businesses share an office with the Association of Nepali Origin, which says it <a href="https://anorigin.org/about/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provides</a> “humanitarian assistance and relief efforts.”
Dilli also created a <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/832926128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nonprofit</a> called the Intra National Welfare and Support Foundation, which hosts two American Idol-like television shows that involve the president of Nepal.
The winners receive 10 million rupees, equivalent to $65,000 – about what a single Bhutanese person in Ohio can get paid by Medicaid for working in home health and providing services like “companionship &amp; conversation.”
A <a href="https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/prez-paudel-welcomes-contestants-of-my-voice-universe-and-my-dance-universe-49-63.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nepalese news outlet</a> wrote that &#8220;these reality shows are giving a tangible form to the dream of the Foundation&#8217;s Chairman, Dilli Adhikari, of uniting Nepali communities worldwide.&#8221;
Although that article is from last May, there is no record of annual tax filings from the foundation <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/832926128" target="_blank" rel="noopener">since 2020</a>, when it reported nearly half a million dollars in revenue and said it didn&#8217;t send any abroad.
Remarkably, Intra National Welfare is not the only &#8220;charity&#8221; linked to Ohio Medicaid that reported sending money overseas to fund a singing-competition reality show. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/p/Nakshatra-Foundation-100068930538338/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nakshatra Foundation</a> – connected to Bravo Health Care LLC, which Ohio paid $589,000 – did the same, and also says it is funding a school system in Nepal.
An entire infrastructure propping up the third-world nation of Bhutan is now directly tied to Bhutanese refugees in the United States claiming to be disabled, triggering payments to their family members.
The Global Bhutanese Hindu Organization, which reports <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/822341423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$2.5 million in assets</a>, is based in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Its <a href="https://gbho.org/member/Board%20Of%20Directors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chairman</a> is Narad Adhikari and its president is Kamal Dhimal, who founded a company called <a href="https://sosnc.gov/online_services/search/profile_filings/12987348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melody Care</a> that billed Medicaid $9 million.
When the Global Bhutanese Hindu Organization held a massive event last July, so many of its attendees owned Medicaid companies that they &#8220;offered their company vans and buses as shuttles.&#8221;
<a href="https://thenewamericansmag.com/galion-ohio-hosts-unprecedented-hindu-gathering-a-historic-celebration-of-faith-healing-and-memory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All of the donors</a> mentioned in an article about the event made their money from Medicaid or adult day care. Those include &#8220;Tika Adhikari, a Kentucky-based donor and owner of Freedom Daycare LLC and Freedom Home Health.” Tika Adhikari is listed on the incorporation <a href="https://web.sos.ky.gov/corpscans/41/0869641-06-99999-20200918-ARA-8123571-PU.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paperwork</a> for Freedom Senior Share LLC in that state, which billed Medicaid $143 million.
The Bhutanese foundation&#8217;s donors also included Netra Acharya, &#8220;a Pennsylvania-based entrepreneur, who publicly announced that he would cover the full cost of food for Sunday’s gathering in memory of his ancestors. This meant providing three meals to more than 15,000 people.&#8221; Acharya runs <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570269633250" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brightwood</a> Adult Day Care, which caters <a href="https://brightwoodadc.com/services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">specifically</a> to Bhutanese elderly, its website says.
Another Adhikari in Ohio, Nirmali Adhikari, owns Medina Home Healthcare, which was paid $22 million by 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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MedinaHomeHealthcareLlc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> page since September 2024. Its last post says the person posting on behalf of the company lives in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/narayan-rao-re-essayeditinginyanga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India</a>.
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<h3>Can&#8217;t go home again</h3>
The businesses appear to earn money from the astronomical portions of fellow Bhutanese in Ohio who are on Medicaid, the federal-state medical program for the poor, and then claim to need the government to pay a person of their choice to be their personal aide.
The government knows that the ethnic group doesn’t just have a monopoly on providing Medicaid services; they are often providing them exclusively to fellow members of their ethnic group. An official Ohio website lists seven adult day cares in Franklin County, and two have asterisks letting non-Nepalese elderly know <a href="https://adultdayohio.org/franklin-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that it is not for them</a>.
The Nepalese-speaking Hindu minority in Bhutan was expelled by the Buddhist-majority country’s leaders in the 1990s, and lived in refugee camps in Nepal until being resettled, almost entirely to North America, beginning in 2008.
Only a couple thousand were sent to Ohio. Yet now, &#8220;up to 30,000 Bhutanese-Nepali individuals have settled here in the Greater Columbus area,&#8221; <a href="https://bccoh.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio (BCCO).
&#8220;Although in the beginning people were resettled in different states and cities, through internal migration (secondary and tertiary), Columbus now has the highest Bhutanese population anywhere outside Bhutan,&#8221; BCCO said.
Many of the home health businesses are based in Reynoldsburg, where BCCO&#8217;s former president now serves on the city council. (BCCO has received $1.2 million in <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=f02706cd71e32fc449213f35bc8ac5e1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal grants</a>, used for activities such as paying one Kamal Adhikhari to teach refugees to &#8220;grow culturally relevant greens.&#8221;)
The welfare dependency has put enormous strain on the government’s budget, but it has been good for one political party.
A <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/11/09/democrats-continue-to-win-more-columbus-area-suburbs/87110149007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local paper</a> reported last November: &#8220;On Election Day in November 2015, Republicans swept all of the races in Reynoldsburg and Hilliard. Soon, Democrats will hold all elected offices in the two Columbus-area suburbs.&#8221;
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Parker Thayer, an investigator for the Capital Research Center, contributed reporting.
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Roshan Adhikari

Refugees From Bhutan Billed Medicaid Millions. Now They Drink Champagne In Private Jets.

Just weeks after the Daily Wire’s investigation into Medicaid fraud in Ohio, the Trump administration arrived at the epicenter of the scandal in Columbus to start shutting the fraudsters down.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the administration&#8217;s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, personally traveled to Columbus, and rattled off findings from our investigation into abuse of the &#8220;home health care&#8221; program, which accounts for billions of dollars in Medicaid spending.
From outside of a company that was caught defrauding the government through home health, Dr. Oz said his team confirmed the Daily Wire report about a cluster of hundreds of home health companies in seven office buildings on one street in Columbus.
&#8220;We also identify 288 Medicaid registered home health aid companies operating out of just seven office buildings along one nearby road,&#8221; Dr. Oz said. &#8220;Some of these buildings are nearly vacant. Home health care and personal care services have become the subject of nearly all of the recent fraud prosecutions in Ohio.&#8221;
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Fraudsters have been treating Medicaid like a piggy bank, but it ends now.
Ohio is showing what happens when data meets accountability. We followed the money and caught the crooks.
And we’re not done yet. See you again soon, Ohio. <a href="https://t.co/Z1FMxI3gQl">pic.twitter.com/Z1FMxI3gQl</a>
— DrOzCMS (@DrOzCMS) <a href="https://x.com/DrOzCMS/status/2060712047432568944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The seven buildings containing 288 companies that billed a quarter-billion dollars worth of Medicaid payments were identified by The Daily Wire after Dr. Oz&#8217;s agency released data on Medicaid expenditures.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million">Inside Ohio’s Home Health Empire: 7 Buildings, 288 Medicaid Companies, $250 Million</a>
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Those buildings are all owned by a New Jersey-based landlord, Cordoba, and illustrate just how much of the economy in Columbus has been replaced with Medicaid businesses.
Even Cordoba expressed concern with the findings.
&#8220;The questions you’re raising about how Ohio’s Medicaid dollars are being used and abused are certainly legitimate ones,&#8221; a spokesman for the real estate company said. &#8220;After your reporting surfaced, Cordoba proactively contacted the Ohio Auditor of State and offered its full cooperation with any investigation.&#8221;
As was noted by Dr. Oz, the suspicious Medicaid businesses are clustered in a neighborhood that is home to one of the country&#8217;s largest Somali immigrant communities.
&#8220;I&#8217;m in Columbus, Ohio, it&#8217;s home to the second largest Somali population in the entire United States, after Minneapolis,&#8221; Dr. Oz said. &#8220;Franklin County, where we are now, by itself accounts more than a third of the billion and a half dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. That is three times more than what would be expected.&#8221;
&#8220;Now process that statistic: the corruption is so widespread here that over a third of the entire state&#8217;s home health care budget goes to this county, which is three times more than you expect,&#8221; Dr. Oz said.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s series, Medicaid Millions, is still in progress, yet numerous top government officials have already taken action. Part 5 of the series is set to drop next week.
Dr. Oz pledged that this is just the beginning of the crackdown on fraud.
&#8220;If we do this the right way, people will stop using Medicaid as a piggy bank,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Vice President [JD] Vance, who&#8217;s from Ohio, wants the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force coming after fraudsters everywhere with everything we have.&#8221;
On Wednesday, a new congressional task force created by the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Ohio home health care fraud, where I will testify on what I found in Ohio.
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Dr. Oz

Dr. Oz Drops Into Ohio To Crack Down On Medicaid Fraud Identified By Daily Wire

Ohio officials are moving to overhaul the state’s anti-fraud infrastructure after The Daily Wire’s reporting exposed massive abuse inside Ohio’s Medicaid system, with top fiscal watchdogs now aligning themselves directly with Vice President JD Vance’s national anti-fraud push.
In a major development first shared with The Daily Wire, Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber has joined the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF), a growing coalition of state auditors, treasurers, and comptrollers focused on combating government waste, fraud, and abuse.
The move comes after Daily Wire investigations uncovered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=DW+Investigation+Reveals+One+Of+The+Biggest+Government+Waste+Scandals+Hiding+In+Plain+Sight">widespread fraud</a> in Ohio’s Medicaid home healthcare programs, including cases in which convicted fraudsters were permitted to operate taxpayer-funded healthcare businesses while billing the government millions of dollars.
“We couldn&#8217;t be more excited to welcome Ohio Auditor Keith Faber as our 42nd state financial officer,” OJ Oleka, the CEO of SFOF, told The Daily Wire. “As outrageous Medicaid fraud in Ohio continues to be exposed, Auditor Faber is precisely the kind of leader needed to root it out entirely and take bold action to make the state&#8217;s programs safer for taxpayers and beneficiaries than ever before,” Oleka added.
According to Oleka, Faber’s office has already identified nearly $9 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse across state government programs. 
Faber framed the effort as part of a broader national mission among conservative fiscal watchdogs aligned with the Trump administration’s renewed crackdown on government corruption. 
“We look forward to working with other conservative fiscal officers to protect taxpayers from waste, fraud, and abuse,” Faber told The Daily Wire. “Transparency and accountability with taxpayer money is a team sport.”
At the same time, Ohio State Treasurer Robert Sprague is pushing major reforms to Ohio’s government transparency system, known as Ohio Checkbook, which allows taxpayers to track public spending data.
Sprague’s office recently backed legislation that the Ohio House overwhelmingly passed and would dramatically expand the transparency database and increase public access to government expenditure information. 
“More than ever, taxpayers must have confidence that their hard-earned money is being used efficiently and honestly,” Sprague told The Daily Wire exclusively. “Our office stands with Vice President Vance and financial officers nationwide in our mission to not only expose waste, fraud, and abuse, but prevent it.” 
The reforms reflect a growing national movement among Republican state financial officers who increasingly view themselves as on the front lines of the Trump administration’s “war on fraud.”
Auditors across the country have begun deploying aggressive new tactics ranging from AI-assisted audits to citizenship verification systems aimed at preventing taxpayer-funded benefits from flowing to ineligible recipients.
North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek said fiscal watchdogs should prioritize taxpayers over protecting government bureaucracy.
“It’s not my job to protect government,” Boliek told The Daily Wire. “It’s my job to protect the taxpayer, and they need an advocate.”
Utah State Auditor Tina Cannon warned that political resistance often comes from those who benefit financially from bloated government systems. 
“The thing that bothers me the most is when people call the federal money coming into the state free money,” Cannon said. “No, that&#8217;s somebody&#8217;s federal tax return that is going to this program.”
The intensified focus on fraud comes as the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, spearheaded by Vance, increasingly coordinates with conservative state financial officers to uncover abuse embedded throughout federal and state programs.
For Ohio Republicans, The Daily Wire’s reporting appears to have accelerated that effort.

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Ohio’s Fraud Crackdown Is Getting Real — And The Watchdogs Are Coming Out Swinging

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Trump administration would not rest until “justice is served” to those defrauding the American taxpayer through government welfare programs. 
Vance’s comments came shortly after the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minnesotas-latest-fraud-bust-may-be-the-most-disturbing-yet?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Minnesota%E2%80%99s+Latest+Fraud+Bust+May+Be+The+Most+Disturbing+Yet">charged</a> 15 people across Minnesota with stealing $90 million through various fraud schemes targeting Medicaid and social service programs. Fraud in Minnesota has received widespread attention after independent journalist Nick Shirley took a camera to questionable entities raking in taxpayer dollars and asked about their operations. 
“Our message is simple: if you were committing fraud, our task force will find you. We&#8217;ll come after you, and we will not rest until justice is served,” Vance said in a video message. “Don&#8217;t defraud the American taxpayer. Don&#8217;t get rich by trying to steal from them, or we are going to come after you until justice is served. That&#8217;s our promise, and we&#8217;re going to stick to it.”
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Vance, heading up the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force, said that the charges announced Thursday included two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota history and the largest autism fraud case ever brought by the federal government. 
“With this action, we&#8217;re bringing justice to some of America&#8217;s most vulnerable citizens and justice to the American taxpayer,” he said. 
Medicaid fraud has come under heavy scrutiny from Republican officials in recent weeks after Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medicaid-millionaires">published a series</a> documenting how Ohio spent a billion dollars on home healthcare in 2024. The home healthcare services included activities such as “homemaking” and “chores” for family members. 
The report found that just seven buildings in Columbus housed 288 home healthcare businesses that billed taxpayers more than $250 million. State officials appear to do little vetting for the so-called home healthcare companies. Vance has warned that states that do not combat fraud could lose their Medicaid funding. 
The vice president noted that one of the cases brought Thursday involved a defendant accused of billing Medicaid for around-the-clock care for a disabled man who was later found dead after receiving no actual services.
“To get rich off taxpayers, even at the cost of others&#8217; lives, just as that fraudster had for many months before. This kind of behavior is sickening,” Vance said. 
Aimee Bock, the founder of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison on Thursday over a $250 million fraud case involving meals supposedly given to children during the COVID pandemic.

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After uncovering a billion-dollar fraud scheme in Ohio, Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak testified on Capitol Hill this week, expecting bipartisan concern, but Democrats didn’t offer it. 
Rosiak testified before the Senate Small Business Committee on Wednesday during a hearing dominated by Republican lawmakers. The only Democrat in attendance was Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), whose presence was required as the minority ranking member. 
Rosiak later quipped, “The hearing room may as well have been a learing center with the number of Democrats who showed up today,” referencing a misspelled sign outside a suspected fraudulent daycare in Minnesota. 
In his opening statement, Markey argued that the Trump administration’s recent anti-fraud initiatives have disproportionately targeted blue states, completely ignoring the fact that Rosiak just uncovered $1 billion in alleged Medicaid fraud in a red state. Markey declined to question Rosiak or any of the Republican witnesses, instead focusing his remarks on criticizing President Donald Trump.
“I agree we should be doing more to prevent fraud,” said Markey. “But we should also be focusing on the Trump-sized hole in the American people’s pockets. We should address rising gas prices, electricity costs, healthcare premiums, food prices, but instead the instances of fraud that congressional Republicans and this administration choose to focus on are solely to secure political points demonizing communities of color and attacking blue states.” 
Markey also chose not to comment on testimony from Faye Bernstein, a compliance specialist for the Minnesota Department of Human Services and a self-described lifelong Democrat. Bernstein testified that she began questioning members of her own party after raising fraud concerns and being “labeled a racist.” 
On Thursday, Rosiak <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-daily-wire-investigator-called-to-testify-on-findings-in-ohio?row=1&amp;elementPosition=9&amp;rowType=Web+Search">participated</a> in an anti-fraud roundtable hosted by the Republican Study Committee. 
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) kicked off the meeting praising Rosiak “for doing absolutely phenomenal work, uncovering a massive fraud scheme.” He added that the most amazing part was that Rosiak did it all through publicly available data. The committee discussed increasing data transparency to allow greater public access. 
Asked by The Daily Wire where the responsibility for fraud oversight should fall between Congress and investigative journalists, Gill said lawmakers should focus on using “the power of the purse” to ensure taxpayer dollars are not improperly distributed in the first place.
Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) echoed that criticism, arguing that Congress is a system with warped incentives. 
“We measure effectiveness too often by how much money goes out the door, as opposed to, is it going to where it was intended and is it accomplishing what it was supposed to accomplish.”
Rosiak&#8217;s investigation focused in part on Ohio&#8217;s rapidly expanding home healthcare industry.
Rosiak found that Ohio spent roughly $1 billion on home healthcare services in 2024 alone, much of it through loosely monitored Medicaid programs that allow relatives to receive taxpayer funding for providing in-home “personal services” such as cooking, cleaning, and companionship.
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His investigation uncovered entire office buildings filled with Medicaid-billing home health companies, many run by individuals with little or no healthcare background, and in some cases histories of fraud, unpaid debts, or criminal convictions.
Rosiak partly blames weak certification standards for the problem, as the program requires a licensed professional to certify that a patient needs assistance around the house.
&#8220;It only takes one doctor who will say yes to churn out enough forms to bankrupt a state,&#8221; Rosiak said.
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Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak is set to testify before a Senate panel this week after his scoop on Ohio&#8217;s Medicaid payment system triggered renewed scrutiny from Republican lawmakers over government waste and fraud.
Rosiak, whose recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">“Medicaid Millionaires”</a> series uncovered what he described as billions in questionable taxpayer-funded home health payments using newly released federal billing data, is scheduled to appear before a panel convened by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the longtime Republican watchdog who has made rooting out federal waste, fraud, and abuse a signature issue. 
The hearing is expected to feature testimony not only on Ohio’s Medicaid system, but on broader failures in state-administered welfare programs that rely heavily on federal dollars.
Rosiak&#8217;s reporting generated national attention after detailing how hundreds of little-known home health companies clustered in the Columbus area, many receiving millions in taxpayer reimbursements for loosely defined “personal services” such as homemaking, companionship, and conversation. The series also highlighted that providers appeared to operate out of near-empty office buildings while billing Medicaid enormous sums.
Joining Rosiak on the Republican witness list are two Minnesota whistleblowers who raised alarms about fraud inside that state’s Department of Human Services. 
Faye Bernstein, a longtime DHS contract specialist and compliance officer, is expected to testify that she faced retaliation after flagging contracting practices she believed created serious risks for fraud. Bernstein has said DHS officials removed her from her workplace and barred her from department property after she challenged leadership over compliance failures.
Also scheduled to testify is Jay Swanson, a retired investigator who spent years probing Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program. Swanson has claimed that beginning in 2014, he uncovered an extensive fraud scheme involving childcare reimbursements that may have exceeded $100 million annually. According to Swanson, the scheme involved a network of daycare operations run by Somali immigrants.
Swanson has further alleged that his warnings were met not with enforcement action but institutional resistance, including efforts to suppress his findings and restructure his office to limit investigations.
Democrats will call Donald Sherman, the head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, as their witness, setting up a partisan clash over how best to tackle fraud in public programs while preserving social safety nets.
The hearing marks a major escalation for Rosiak’s Ohio investigation, which has already prompted public reactions from Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-medicaid-investigation-triggers-a-1-4-billion-spending-freeze?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Daily+Wire+Medicaid+Investigation+Triggers+A+%241.4+BILLION+Spending+Freeze">JD Vance</a> and Ohio GOP gubernatorial nominee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-reckoning-vivek-is-vowing-after-dw-exposed-the-medicaid-money-trail">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>. Both Republicans said they would look into potential abuse following The Daily Wire series, which found that Ohio’s Medicaid waiver system created a vast, lightly monitored industry built around billing taxpayers for in-home services that are difficult to verify.
For Republicans, the hearing offers a chance to frame state welfare fraud as emblematic of a broader federal spending crisis. Democrats will likely attempt to make the hearing a battleground over whether investigators are unfairly targeting immigrant communities while seeking cuts to entitlement programs.
A hearing date has been set for Wednesday, with testimony expected to center on whether federal and state agencies failed to detect — or ignored warnings about — fraud schemes that whistleblowers say operated in plain sight for years.
Rosiak will also testify in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday before state lawmakers about his investigative findings. While in Ohio, he&#8217;ll appear at an anti-fraud event alongside Ramaswamy.
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EXCLUSIVE: Daily Wire Investigator Called To Testify On Findings In Ohio

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Ohio says it is immediately implementing anti-fraud measures in the home health sector, days after claiming it already had such measures, and after a Daily Wire report showed how the administration of Gov. Mike DeWine actually turned off previously-existing fraud protections.
The about-face comes after Vice President JD Vance, who also hails from Ohio, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-threatens-to-cut-funds-to-states-that-ignore-medicaid-fraud-after-daily-wire-investigation">announced</a> on Wednesday that the federal government would be suspending the enrollment of any new home-health companies in the Medicaid program for six months.
DeWine <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/2054632396666921193">announced</a> in response that he was implementing &#8220;several new fraud prevention initiatives&#8221; that had been &#8220;long in development&#8221; to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid.
The announcement comes amid a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/medicaid-millionaires">Daily Wire investigative series</a> into home health care waste, fraud, and abuse. It comes just a week after the DeWine administration attempted to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6394775650112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismiss</a> The Daily Wire&#8217;s series, telling other media outlets that &#8220;Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place,&#8221; including a safeguard called &#8220;Electronic Visit Verification,&#8221; or EVV.
Ohio spends $1 billion a year on &#8220;home health,&#8221; most often to people who aren&#8217;t medical professionals, to provide services like &#8220;chores,&#8221; &#8220;companionship,&#8221; and &#8220;conversation.&#8221; The people getting paid by Medicaid are frequently the patients&#8217; own family members.
The DeWine administration initially attempted to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6394775650112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismiss</a> The Daily Wire&#8217;s series, telling other media outlets that &#8220;Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place,&#8221; including a safeguard called &#8220;Electronic Visit Verification,&#8221; or EVV.
It garnered sympathetic coverage in local outlets like the Columbus Dispatch, who played down the scandal after the Ohio Department of Medicaid told media May 5 that, &#8220;To confirm that billed services are actually rendered, ODM relies on an extensive set of safeguards, including&#8230; Mandatory electronic visit verification capturing date, time, and service location.&#8221;
But it turns out that wasn&#8217;t entirely true. On Monday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-says-safeguards-exist-to-stop-medicaid-fraud-but-admits-massive-loophole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> Ohio wasn&#8217;t actually requiring meaningful EVV. For years, Ohio had been paying people even if there was no verification, according to public testimony by Auditor Keith Faber. Furthermore, the state neutered EVV by making GPS optional, citing privacy concerns for patients.
Dave Yost, the outgoing attorney general of Ohio, had complained to the legislature that making GPS optional had made detecting fraud impossible.
“Until about a year ago [GPS] was required, now it’s optional,” Yost told legislators in March. “I do not know for the life of me why it went away, but I respectfully ask you to put in statute where no vendor, no bureaucrat can object to legitimate monitoring.”
Ohio Department of Medicaid spokeswoman Stephanie O&#8217;Grady told The Daily Wire five days ago that the change was necessary because of patient &#8220;privacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Effective July 1, 2024, GPS functionality within any EVV application or device may only be activated with the signed consent of the individual receiving services—valid for one year and revocable at any time. The approach allows the person receiving care to make an informed decision related to privacy protections for individuals receiving home and community-based services,&#8221; she said in an email.
DeWine&#8217;s administration says it has been taking steps to reimplement the requirement since late last year.
&#8220;In December, DeWine authorized Ohio Medicaid to begin the information technology investments needed to make GPS mandatory for EVV. Ohio Medicaid [is] now ready to make this rule change to implement the requirement,&#8221; it said.
But Ohio&#8217;s implementation of EVV is still easily gamed: Even though it paid $146 million to work with a large provider of tracking software, it allows home health aides to use other software instead, and those systems simply transmit the coordinates as plain text, potentially making it possible to submit fake coordinates.
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s series continues to document the people who own home health companies – such as a husband-and-wife team with repeated convictions for fraud, theft, and assault – the DeWine administration began to backtrack from its initial posture. O&#8217;Grady said Monday that &#8220;improvements were already underway, and The Daily Wire series provides a great reminder as to why we have been pursuing these stronger safeguards for future implementation.&#8221;
DeWine <a href="https://x.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/2054632396666921193" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media Wednesday, &#8220;Today I announced several new fraud prevention initiatives to strengthen and build upon long-standing efforts to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the Ohio Medicaid System. We are ready to begin these initiatives long in development that will enhance Ohio&#8217;s nation-leading work.&#8221;
State lawmaker Mike Dovilla, a Republican who has been critical of the governor, <a href="https://x.com/mikedovilla/status/2054652361008988222?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a>: &#8220;The only thing that has been &#8216;long in development&#8217; is persistently ignoring and denying these and similar instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.&#8221;
As recently as May 4, the DeWine administration cut the latest check to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-convicted-for-defrauding-the-government-now-medicaid-pays-his-wife-millions?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=He+Was+Convicted+For+Defrauding+The+Government.+Now+Medicaid+Pays+His+Wife+Millions.">Omega Healthcare Services</a>, which has received nearly $6 million through Medicaid, and is run by a woman who previously had a daycare shut down for not being able to prove the kids were real. Her husband and office-mate was convicted of billing the government for nonexistent elder services, and the company listed the teenage son of a convicted money launderer on corporate documents.
U.S. Rep. <a href="https://x.com/repbrandongill/status/2054668388740313130?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Gill</a> (R-TX), who on Wednesday was named the chair of a new congressional subcommittee on fraud, said investigating Ohio is at the top of his list, and expressed shock at the lack of oversight of the multi-billion dollar program.
&#8220;Our first action: a formal investigation into a massive Medicaid fraud scandal in Ohio — where hundreds of shell companies operating out of empty office buildings billed taxpayers over $250 million for services that could not be verified,&#8221; Gill said. &#8220;And we believe the full scope of this scandal reaches into the billions.&#8221;
&#8220;A @realDailyWire reporter found this in two months. The agency responsible for stopping it had years,&#8221; he wrote.
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