Posted on 05/08/2026 6:54:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When the scale of the Medicaid fraud in Minnesota started to emerge, our first thought was that, if it’s that easy to rip off Medicaid, the North Star State can’t be the only place where it’s happening.
Turns out we were right, as the Daily Wire’s exposé of massive fraud schemes in Ohio makes clear. Which means there are almost certainly still more to be uncovered. Which leads to the question of why we are learning about this only now.
Daily Wire is releasing a five-part series that alleges massive fraud in an Ohio Medicaid program – a state that obtained a waiver so it could reimburse “home healthcare.” The idea made sense. Care at home is cheaper than in skilled nursing facilities.
But it threw open the door to fragrant abuse.
As the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak explains, “Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform ‘homemaking’ and ‘chores’ like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these ‘personal services’ tasks don’t even have to be healthcare workers — and in many cases, are actually relatives of the Medicaid recipient.”
Rosiak dug into a treasure trove of Medicaid data released by DOGE and found the same thing being uncovered by independent journalists in Minnesota and in California. Obvious cases of fraud. Storefronts that don’t appear to be doing anything other than billing Medicaid. And, as it turns out, lots of immigrants are running these scams.
In the second part of his series, he reports finding 288 “home health” companies in just seven buildings in Columbus, Ohio, that collectively billed Medicaid $250 million.
So now, independent, muckraking journalists have uncovered massive child care fraud schemes in Minnesota, hospice fraud schemes in California, and a bustling “home health” care racket in Ohio.
And in each case, the governors have dismissed the allegations, claiming that their administration is aggressively rooting out fraud and that this is all just MAGA types causing trouble.
Even Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s initial statement – after the Daily Wire’s first article in the series was published – was dismissive of the report, saying that it “does not seem to allege any fraud in the details provided.”
One big problem with Medicaid is that, because of the way it’s financed, fraud actually pays dividends to the states, which get federal matching dollars for every dollar spent on providing Medicaid benefits. So, if the state doles out hundreds of millions of dollars to phony day care, hospice, or “home health” companies, Washington kicks in hundreds of millions, which the state can then use to pay for legitimate healthcare.
So, how many more Medicaid schemes are out there? How many schemes involve food stamps? Obamacare? Medicare?
If the journalism profession weren’t so hopelessly captured by the Democratic Party, every investigative journalist at every major news outlet in every state would be digging into to see if it’s happening in their hometowns.
But our guess is that zero are, because it would be seen as somehow helping Donald Trump.
Instead, reporters are filing stories about the “devastating,” “draconian,” and “deadly” Medicaid cuts Republicans approved as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Typical is an NPR headline from last week: “It’s Day 1 of Medicaid work requirements in Nebraska. People are worried.” The Bulwark, which is so insanely anti-Trump that it now makes the Huffington Post look sensible, cried that “Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real.”
You’d think Democrats would be as adamant as anyone about rooting out fraud. After all, every dollar that goes to a con artist is a dollar that isn’t being used to help the needy.
But as we’ve said before, for today’s Democrats, fraud isn’t a bug that needs to be stamped out. It’s a feature that enriches their friends and family — and gets them reelected.
Can this go to the RICO stage since it is multi-state?
Can this go to the RICO stage since it is multi-state?
Time to also check into the $250 million the federal government gave Asheville, NC for Hurricane Helene relief. I saw a report only 8 homes have been repaired or reconstructed with this money. Most has been diverted to special projects of local politicians, not relief of citizens who were devastated by the storm. Asheville is the most liberal city in NC and its government is totally controlled by Democrats.
Given there is currently in NC a US Senate race, where the GOP candidate is running behind the Democrat prior governor, one would think the Trump administration would be making this spending of federal funds by a liberal Democrat city an issue. In addition the Dem ex Governor running for the Senate was governor when Helene happened. What is it about the Republicans continuous failure to capitalize on a public relations victory staring them in the face?
Perhaps if there is coordination in the fraud across state lines.
NYS to CA, MN, and OH...
Hold my beer.
They just arrested and charged a woman in Milwaukee, WI with this kind of fraud to the tune of $2.2 Million.
It’s happening. MAGA!
Daily Wire’s intrepid reporter Luke Rosiak explains:
<><>Ohio pays tax dollars for ‘chores’ like cooking and cleaning for Medicaid users.
<><>The ones paid for these “services’ don’t even have to be healthcare workers —
<><>in many cases, they are actually relatives of the Medicaid recipient.
Rosiak dug into a treasure trove of Medicaid data released by DOGE that was uncovered by independent journalists in Minn and in Ca. Obvious cases of fraud:
<><>Storefronts that do nothing more than bill Medicaid.
<><>predictably immigrants are running these scams
<><>ripping off taxpayers for millions.
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Message: True Home Healthcare must be terminated for fraud.
True Home Healthcare was certified as a Medicaid provider in April 2021; between May 2021 and October 2024, it billed taxpayers $936,000. It had 12 customers when it opened its doors, and 12 customers in October 2024, the last month for which data is available, according to the HHS data.
In official govt Medicaid records, the owner is listed as Sierra Leone African immigrant Mamusu Kanu. According to a review of public records, Kanu has had a slew of criminal convictions, including for theft, assault, and DUI, as well as several civil judgments and tax liens. Kanu was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia, and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The company True Home Healthcare LLC received $100,000 tax dollars in December 2023 alone off just 15 patients, according to an analysis of federal spending data.
True Home Healthcare must be terminated.
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Meet The Convicted Fraudster Running A Million Dollar Medicaid Business
True Home Healthcare was certified as a Medicaid provider in April 2021; between May 2021 and October 2024, it billed taxpayers $936,000. It had 12 customers when it opened its doors, and 12 customers in October 2024, the last month for which data is available, according to the HHS data.
In official govt Medicaid records, the owner is listed as Sierra Leone African immigrant Mamusu Kanu. According to a review of public records, Kanu has had a slew of criminal convictions, including for theft, assault, and DUI, as well as several civil judgments and tax liens. Kanu was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia, and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The company True Home Healthcare LLC received $100,000 tax dollars in December 2023 alone off just 15 patients, according to our analysis of federal spending data. In a phone interview, Mamusu Kanu, who goes by “Sue,” denied that she had a criminal record, before declaring: “Even if I do, it doesn’t have anything to do with nobody. They [Medicaid] certify you before you do anything.”
Incorporation documents for True Home Healthcare don’t list Kanu, but rather an African man, Alieu Conteh. The couple are married and have been partners in crime for decades. On December 12, 2004, both Kanu and Conteh were charged with theft in Columbus. They previously lived in Alexandria, Virginia, where they stiffed multiple landlords out of rent. Court records show the couple faced foreclosure in Columbus immediately before opening their Medicaid business.
In Franklin County, where Columbus is located, court records show Conteh had 25 additional convictions including for endangering children. Conteh acknowledged his criminal history, but said it didn’t interfere with his ability to do business with Medicaid. “Yes, I do have a lot of records,” Conteh told The Daily Wire. “I was just too dumb I didn’t even know what is law.”
“We came up to do business. I put in my application with the government, Medicaid, Medicare, they check. They see all my history … and they approved the business to operate,” Conteh said. “Do you want to tell me I don’t have rights to own a business?”
Conteh had a roster of aliases that he would give to the police, such as Osman Kanu and Gbssay Gbla, leading to multiple fraud convictions. “That way I cannot be arrested when I knew I was driving with a suspended license,” he told The Daily Wire.
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Some of the conservative Southern states resisted Medicaid expansion on the basis that the state’s share of the costs would spiral out of control. Yes, there is fraud everywhere, but the massive fraud will be in states with Democrat governments, lots of immigrants, and numerous welfare recipients. Triage investigative resources on those criteria.
I’ve never understood why Medicare and Medicaid fraud could not be stopped quickly by a few algorithms tied to id numbers for the billers and the doctors who authorized the “services”. Billing for over some modest amount should have triggered cut-offs pending thorough review. The programs were intended as scams by design; the House, Senate, and federal bureaucrats had to be complicit.
So, the illegals know all about this fraud system. Who sent out the first email, in various languages, explaining the new rules?
Or an Asian writer lol
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