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Listen to this Article This is part two of “Medicaid Millionaires,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family.

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

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After the federal government approved a waiver allowing Ohio to expand Medicaid by paying housekeepers to spend time at elderly

This is part four 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 relatives.

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, announced 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 announced in response that he was implementing “several new fraud prevention initiatives” that had been “long in development” to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid.The announcement comes amid a Daily Wire investigative series into home health care waste, fraud, and abuse. It comes just a week after the DeWine administration attempted to dismiss The Daily Wire’s series, telling other media outlets that “Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place,” including a safeguard called “Electronic Visit Verification,” or EVV.Ohio spends $1 billion a year on “home health,” most often to people who aren’t medical professionals, to provide services like “chores,” “companionship,” and “conversation.” The people getting paid by Medicaid are frequently the patients’ own family members.The DeWine administration initially attempted to dismiss The Daily Wire’s series, telling other media outlets that “Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place,” including a safeguard called “Electronic Visit Verification,” 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, “To confirm that billed services are actually rendered, ODM relies on an extensive set of safeguards, including… Mandatory electronic visit verification capturing date, time, and service location.”But it turns out that wasn’t entirely true. On Monday, The Daily Wire revealed Ohio wasn’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 former 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’Grady told The Daily Wire five days ago that the change was necessary because of patient “privacy.”“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,” she said in an email.DeWine’s administration says it has been taking steps to reimplement the requirement since late last year.“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,” it said.But Ohio’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’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’Grady said Monday that “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.”DeWine said on social media Wednesday, “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’s nation-leading work.”State lawmaker Mike Dovilla, a Republican who has been critical of the governor, replied: “The only thing that has been ‘long in development’ is persistently ignoring and denying these and similar instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.”As recently as May 4, the DeWine administration cut the latest check to Omega Healthcare Services, 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. Brandon Gill (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.“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,” Gill said. “And we believe the full scope of this scandal reaches into the billions.”“A @realDailyWire reporter found this in two months. The agency responsible for stopping it had years,” he wrote.

WASHINGTON — A former top foreign aid official was sentenced Wednesday to prison after admitting to accepting bribes and lying to federal investigators.Mathieu Zahui, former chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, cried in the courtroom and said, “I stand before the court with shame,” before being sentenced to four months in prison by Judge James Boasberg.Zahui awarded more than $600,000 in no-bid contracts to a friend’s company based in Africa, which did no actual work. The friend paid him $12,000 in bribes for the contract, Zahui acknowledged in court papers. The African Development Foundation is a federal agency that is the “little brother” of USAID.The case seems to prove a theory of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk correct: That money appropriated to agencies like USAID was enriching insiders in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, who essentially laundered it through third-world countries. Zahui used the Africa-based company as a pass-through to pay agency bills, making it seem like the agency was fulfilling its mission by sending most of its money to Africa, while the foreign company simply used the money to write checks to D.C. bureaucrats and others at Zahui’s direction. The friend, Maina Gakure, kept $136,000 as his cut.The criminal charge and guilty plea came after a Daily Wire investigation in May 2025 revealed corruption at the agency, including that Zahui had taken bribes from Gakure. Court papers do not name Gakure or his company, Ganiam Ltd., referring to them only as CC-1, for “co-conspirator.”READ MORE: This Foreign Aid Agency Locked Its Doors To Keep DOGE Out. Now We Know Why.The Daily Wire interviewed Zahui for more than an hour prior to the criminal charge, and he struggled to explain why Gakure’s company was being paid. One of the contracts was for “travel” during COVID, when no travel was occurring.Prosecutors said sentencing guidelines called for 15 to 21 months in prison on the felony counts of “receiving a gratuity as a public official” and “making false statements to federal law enforcement.”They asked for the high end of that range, saying, “the public could reasonably question the legitimacy and stewardship of the organization when a senior official entrusted with financial oversight instead manipulates the system for the benefit of himself and his friend. A meaningful sentence is therefore necessary to make clear that individuals who abuse positions of trust and misuse public funds for personal gain will be held accountable, and to deter others,” prosecutors said.But Boasberg — the D.C. federal court’s chief judge, and a notorious liberal who was behind many of the injunctions that have hamstrung the Trump administration — gave a far lower sentence than the guidelines. The four months in prison will be “followed by 12 months of supervised release. I will not order any restitution but I will order forfeiture of $12,000. I will waive any imposition of a fine,” he said.Six current and former employees of the federal agency wrote letters to Boasberg supporting and praising him. Paul Olson, a current employee, wrote that he does “not condone the conduct” of Zahui but also that “he is an enjoyable person with whom to travel, socialize, and celebrate.” Prosecutor Sungtae Kang said that one government contractor who wrote a letter asking for a light sentence, Afia Frempong, was actually paid for her work via the pass-through scheme, which enabled Zahui and his friend to skim off the top.Zahui’s lawyer argued that he should receive no prison time because Zahui, who is from the Ivory Coast, “was born and raised in a culture where communal living was essential … Both Mr. Zahui and [Gakure] immigrated to the U.S. from Africa … Zahui felt an affinity with [Gakure] because of their shared experience and cultural values,” and they “helped each other.”The lawyer, Karen D. Williams — who previously represented the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, who took gold bar bribes from foreign nationals —also urged Boasberg to impose no jail time because The Daily Wire and Republicans “[used] this case as political fodder in support of efforts to defund and eliminate ADF altogether.”Like Zahui, Gakure immigrated to the United States and was hired by the federal government to administer contracts. Gakure later quit the government to create his own Virginia-based company designed to get government contracts via minority contracting laws. He also created an Africa-based version of the company, which was funded by the African Development Foundation. Zahui told The Daily Wire that Gakure moved from Virginia back to Africa, although records show his company took PPP loans, aimed at mitigating United States job losses during the coronavirus, during the same period.By mid-2024, during the Biden administration, the USAID inspector general had already seized Zahui’s phone and found the electronic kickback payments. Not only was he not charged by the Biden Department of Justice, but he was later promoted to be part of a three-person committee that was running the agency.In that role, Zahui blocked DOGE from entering the building to review its finances. Democrat politicians and media outlets lauded it as an act of heroism at the time. Virtually no legacy media outlets reported on his subsequent guilty plea.After Trump assumed the presidency, he fired the agency’s board and named Pete Marocco, who presided over the demolition of USAID, as its acting chair. Marocco terminated staff and contracts.But another D.C. judge blocked Trump from controlling the federal agency, saying all actions taken by Marocco are null and void. The ruling came after an African for-profit company sued, saying depriving it of United States grants would be a financial hardship because ADF was its only customer.Without a presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed board chair, the agency now operates in a bizarre limbo, being run by the remaining members of the committee, who worked closely with Zahui and are openly hostile to the president.The lawsuit on behalf of the African for-profit company was brought by a law firm of Democrat operatives that was pressing for Zahui’s committee, not the president’s appointee, to be in charge of the agency, even after The Daily Wire revealed Zahui’s corruption.Zahui remained in a top role at the agency for more than a year after prosecutors filed court papers detailing the bribes. After the agency’s then-general counsel confronted Zahui over legal and financial issues, the African Development Foundation’s then-CEO, Travis Adkins, placed the general counsel on leave. Adkins is now suing The Daily Wire. His most recent filing is focused on keeping the case in D.C. court, rather than a different jurisdiction.Related: This Foreign Aid Agency Locked Its Doors To Keep DOGE Out. Now We Know Why.

Listen to this Article Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, personally traveled to

Listen to this Article 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.

Listen to this Article The Ohio Department of Medicaid announced that 50 home health care firms in Columbus following a Daily Wire investigation.

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 Ohio Department of Medicaid announced that 50 home health care firms in Columbus following a Daily Wire investigation.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 suspended firms collectively billed more than $322 million from taxpayers since 2019.Some of the largest billers came from our story on Bhutanese refugees with the name Adhikari. Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, made reference to our findings about Rosham Adhikari’s life of luxury, saying there will no longer be people drinking “champagne on private jets” with the money they made off Medicaid fraud.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 288 Medicaid companies between them that billed $250 million.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 and 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’s documentary on Medicaid in Ohio.These graphics show the names 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 Health Care had 93 claims in September 2018, then suddenly 1,065 the next month, according to the data.An audit found that 56% of ZNC’s Medicaid payments didn’t match up with its staff’s electronic records; the auditor did not recommend any repayments after ZNC said its “employees are confused.”Horizon Home Health, owned by Joana Quainoo and paid $5.8 million in Medicaid, 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 “black box” highlighted in “He Was Convicted For Defrauding The Government. Now Medicaid Pays His Wife Millions.” 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.SUSPENDED:Advanced Home Health (Devendran Sriramanane) – $6 millionRoyal Home Health (Tony Diran)Great Home Health (Khadra Jama) – $4.6 millionHorizon Home Health (Joana Quainoo) – $5.8 millionPacific Home Health (Duran Guled) – $8.1 millionRemedial Home Health (Hilda Agbor) – $7.1 millionDynamic Home Health (Said Ahmed) – $10 millionRight Choice (Jodi Kail) – $1.2 millionMidwest Home Health ($8.2 million)Nimoo Home Health ($506,000)New Generations Home Health ($1.2 million)LA Home Health ($8.2 million)Customized HH ($660,000)Progressive Home Health ($97,000)Parker Thayer, an investigator for the Capital Research Center, contributed reporting.