‘Home Care’ Fraud Scheme Stealing BILLIONS in Ohio

Ken Blackwell
May 5, 2026

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A blockbuster investigation by investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has finally pulled the curtain back on one of the most brazen federal fraud schemes of our lifetime, and it is happening in Columbus, Ohio, the number two epicenter of Somali immigration in the United States after Minneapolis. Medicaid schemes, in Rosiak’s own words, have displaced the entire economy of northeast Columbus.

Third-Worlders are exploiting a well-intentioned program to defraud America, and they are being paid with your tax dollars to “hang out” with their own relatives under the guise of home health care.

After the Department of Government Efficiency published a massive trove of data this past February, the American public is finally seeing what companies are billing Medicaid for, and what we are seeing is theft on a generational scale.

Ohio spent roughly one billion dollars on home health care in 2024 alone. A staggering share of that money is flowing to immigrant-run shell companies that exist for one purpose, which is billing the United States taxpayer for “services” that may never have been rendered at all.

The “service” in many cases is sometimes listed as nothing more than companionship and conversation. A son sitting with his mother. A daughter cooking dinner for her father. Things every decent family has done for free since the dawn of human civilization, now monetized at federal expense by foreign nationals who figured out the racket faster than the State of Ohio could close the door.

Drive down Cleveland Avenue in Columbus and you will pass home health companies every few seconds. Capital Home Health. Continental Home Health.

Dynamic Home Healthcare. Ohio Senior Home Healthcare. The names blur together because the businesses are functionally interchangeable. At 6161 Busch Boulevard sits a windowless complex that houses ninety-four separate Medicaid-billing firms, each tucked into a tiny office often marked with nothing more than a sheet of paper bearing some generic name ending in “Home Health LLC.” Some doors carry a second sheet of paper claiming the employees just stepped out for a break.

That single building has billed American taxpayers sixty-six million dollars in the span of a few years. Ninety-four companies, no windows, almost no people, and sixty-six million of your dollars walking out the door of one address in central Ohio.

The owners of these companies are almost uniformly foreign. Their associates listed in public records are foreign. Their business partners are foreign. Names repeat in different orders, like Ahmed Mohamed and Mohamed Ahmed. Individuals spell their own names multiple ways within a single document, and many list their birthday as January 1 because the actual date is unknown.

Pick a Columbus home health owner at random and you are likely to find years of unpaid taxes, a string of failed LLCs in unrelated industries, and in some cases an outright criminal record. One operator, when Rosiak asked him what these companies actually do, threatened the reporter and accused him of racism.

That is the level of accountability the American taxpayer is getting in exchange for billions of dollars.

The business model is breathtaking in its simplicity. A forty-year-old Somali immigrant gets paid by the federal government to sit with his own sixty-five-year-old mother. Maybe he cooks for her. Maybe he doesn’t. A home health firm with the right NPI number signs the son up as an “employee,” the son lists his mother as his only client, and the checks start flowing.

The only person on earth who could verify whether any actual service was rendered is the mother herself, and she is not going to testify against her own child. Inside every private residence is a small black box. Inside the program itself is a much larger one. And every black box is paid for by the working families of Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown, who will never see a dime of return.

This is not health care. This is a federal subsidy machine that pays adult immigrants to spend time with their relatives, with no monetary cap and no meaningful oversight, in a city that has been quietly reorganized around the racket.

Eligibility is unlocked by any single doctor willing to sign a form saying a beneficiary could use some help around the house. As Rosiak writes, one cooperative doctor can sign enough forms to bankrupt a state. And yet the State of Ohio, run by elected Republicans, has watched this happen for years, written the checks, and looked the other way.

Republican voters across this country need to absorb what comes next very carefully. This scandal is not happening in Sacramento or Albany or Boston. It is happening within miles of the Ohio statehouse, on the watch of Republican Governor Mike DeWine and his appointees. Governor DeWine, this scandal sits squarely on your desk. Your administration runs the Section 1115 waivers that opened the door to this fraud in the first place.

Your Medicaid director answers directly to you. The artificial intelligence tools needed to flag a windowless office building that hosts ninety-four shell companies billing sixty-six million dollars exist today, and your state has chosen not to deploy them.

That is a choice, Governor. It is your choice.

The owners Rosiak has uncovered should turn the stomach of any Ohioan who works for a living. An unnamed politician founded an eleven-million-dollar home health company, ran it part-time, never disclosed it in his political biography, and funded his political campaigns with donations from other home health owners. A woman flipped her janitorial LLC into a “health” provider and billed Medicaid almost one hundred thousand dollars her first month in business.

A landlord bought airplanes after collecting rent from companies that billed Medicaid a quarter of a billion dollars. A couple with repeated fraud, violence, and theft convictions runs a million-dollar Medicaid business.

A man who went to prison for Medicaid fraud told the government he was too broke to pay restitution, while his neighbors and associates preside over what Rosiak rightly calls a poverty-program empire. An accountant stripped of his license for stealing public funds opened a seven-million-dollar home health company registered at the address of a convicted money launderer’s teenage son. Every single one of these people is collecting millions on Governor DeWine’s watch, and Ohio taxpayers and federal taxpayers are footing the bill in equal measure.

For decades the Washington establishment told conservatives the federal budget could not be cut, because the bulk of it sits in non-discretionary spending like Medicaid, where there was supposedly no waste worth chasing.

That premise is collapsing in real time, and Luke Rosiak has the receipts to prove it. President Donald Trump has acted. Vice President JD Vance has acted. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson is now leading a Medicaid fraud task force alongside the vice president, and Rosiak’s reporting strongly suggests that task force should start with Vice President Vance’s home state.

The president has done his job. The vice president has done his job.

The Department of Government Efficiency did its job before its doors closed.

The Daily Wire has done the job the Ohio Department of Medicaid should have done years ago.

So where is the Governor of Ohio? Governor DeWine, you have run as a fiscal conservative your entire political career.

You asked the voters of Ohio to trust your judgment on managing their tax dollars, and they did.

The data is now public.

The reporting is now in print. The parade of millionaires you have allowed to feast on the federal Treasury is now visible to anyone with an internet connection.

Ohio voters deserve to hear from you directly, and they deserve to hear from you this week. Who in your administration approved these waivers. Who is auditing 6161 Busch Boulevard right now.

Who is pulling the NPI numbers of companies that materialize on a Tuesday and have a full client roster by Friday.

Why are bank accounts not frozen, doors not kicked down, and indictments not flying out of Columbus by the dozen.

The conservative argument has always rested on a simple proposition, which is that government bureaucracies cannot replace the work of families, neighbors, and local communities, and that mass importation of populations with no shared civic tradition will eventually produce exactly the kind of parallel society Rosiak describes.

Columbus is now the empirical proof on both counts. When Washington decides to pay sons to sit with their own mothers, you do not get a healthier city, you do not get stronger families, and you do not get assimilation.

You get a federal subsidy machine, an immigrant enclave reorganized around it, a billion-dollar bill sent to Ohio’s working families, and a class of new welfare queens who in Rosiak’s piercing phrase are not the recipients but the companies getting rich off of them.

The remedy is not complicated. Criminally charge everyone responsible. Freeze the accounts. Pull the NPI numbers.

Claw back every dollar billed by every shell company at 6161 Busch Boulevard and every other windowless building like it across the State of Ohio. Refer every operator with falsified identity documents to federal immigration authorities for review. Prosecute the doctors signing the forms. End the waivers that turned cooking dinner for your own mother into a billable federal service.

And do it now, before the next billion dollars walks out the door.

Governor DeWine, the people of Ohio are watching, the people of the United States are watching, and the silence from your office grows louder by the hour.

President Trump has acted. Vice President Vance has acted. The Federal Trade Commission has acted. The Daily Wire has acted. What, exactly, is DeWine waiting for?