Meet The Convicted Fraudster Running A Million Dollar Medicaid Business

(This is the third part of “Medicaid Millions,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family.)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After the federal government approved a waiver allowing Ohio to expand Medicaid by paying housekeepers to spend time at elderly people’s houses to help with tasks like “homemaking” and “chore services,” taxpayers across the country footed a shocking $2.5 billion worth of bills between 2018 and 2024, according to a trove of Medicaid data released for the first time by the Trump administration.

The demand for free home care was so high in Ohio that taxpayers spent more on that “personal services” category, Medicaid’s term for non-medical in-home help, than any other outpatient service. The program allows for people who aren’t medical professionals to get paid by the government for work done inside private residences, where what was performed, and even whether anything was done, is essentially unverifiable.

The state’s largest outpatient Medicaid category therefore relies on trust. So who’s facilitating payments from the government?

The Daily Wire spent weeks analyzing the Medicaid data released by the Trump administration as part of its effort to weed out wasteful government spending. I went to Ohio, and found clusters of home healthcare providers that bill the government millions of dollars in desolate buildings filled with empty offices.

At 1415 East Dublin Granville Road, one of the Columbus buildings we visited in our investigation, we found True Home Healthcare LLC.

All that appeared on its door was a tattered piece of printer paper that read, “SORRY WE MISSED YOU, OUT FOR A QUICK BREAK.”

I am an Arizona State Senator and on the Health and Human Services Committee. We have uncovered so much fraud in AHCCCS which is our Medicaid system. The problem is bureaucrats just don’t care and fraudsters know. They know how to do it and get away with it. These are not isolated examples... this is happening everywhere. We have a Democrat Governor now but it started under Republican leadership. Government tries to do too much and we are failing our citizens. The taxpayers and the people who truly need these services.

FTA

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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Patriots, Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.

Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
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Send a letter to the White House
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Message: True Home Healthcare must be terminated for fraud.

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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