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

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 in the buildings highlighted in our stories), and one was raided Thursday morning, Dr. Oz said. He specifically mentioned The Daily Wire’s findings, saying “there’s a road here very close to where we are [with] 288 facilities in one block,” and “no more champagne on private jets.”The press conference came a day after the House Oversight Committee spotlighted the Daily Wire’s reporting, in which task force chairman Brandon Gill drilled down into the abuse’s connection to refugee communities.Oz highlighted that connection.“This is a Mecca for Somalian populations, it’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’t follow them here,” he said.The assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, Colin McDonald, said that Ohio’s attorney general will announce an $11 million action from the state’s Medicaid fraud control unit, that Ohio’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.“To the people of Ohio, if someone offers you a medical perk that sounds too good to be true, it is,” McDonald said. “We are resolved to till every field and turn over every rock to bring [fraudsters] to justice.”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.“This task force is going to operate similar to how we operate in the violent crime space, we’re going to inject a sense of urgency,” he said.David Tuppler, 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.“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,” 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’s Medicaid fraud control unit was decertified.He said the federally-funded unit astoundingly “didn’t produce a single indictment of a fraudster from 2021 through 2026,” a near-certain sign that nobody was even looking.Ferguson pledged a “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.”Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s message was clear.“This is a good day for Ohio,” Blanche said.

Listen to this Article A massive show of federal force descended on Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday following a Daily Wire investigation into

As America heads into the Fourth of July weekend marking America's 250th birthday, the city hall of Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating differently.

As America heads into the Fourth of July weekend marking America’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’s social media feed.“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,” the city’s Parks and Rec department said on social media. Praising Somalia was apparently so important to the department that it was its first post on X, formerly Twitter, since April 2019.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 City Hall’s X account has celebrated Juneteenth and Pride Month, but said nothing about America’s 250th. In June 2023, the council passed a resolution to fly Somalia’s flag. In June 2025, it passed a resolution “To Recognize and Celebrate July 1st as Somali Independence Day in the City of Columbus.”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 flagrant red flags in the country. 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’s Medicaid spending has doubled over the last decade, leading to a financial crisis.Ohio is facing a budget crisis due to Medicaid. Here’s one man’s thoughts, told to @ParkerThayer and I:“Blah blah blah… Journalists, who cares, journalists? Do you pay my bills? … (ominously) We know people to talk to…. I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.” pic.twitter/h5is7FnT5x— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) June 3, 2026Other 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 “a Mecca for Somalian populations. … We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn’t follow them here.”The unanswered questions posed to Columbus officials included:Is it inappropriate for a government building to fly the flag of a foreign country?Where did the idea to promote a Somali holiday originate from?Is there a conflict between Somalis being brought to Columbus as refugees because their home is uninhabitable, and celebrating that nation’s independence day?Do you think it’s odd to celebrate a foreign country heading into America’s 250th birthday? What days will or is the Somali flag flying? What is city hall doing for America’s independence?

A crackdown on fraud in Ohio's home-health program is poised to be signed into law by Republican Gov.

As America heads into the Fourth of July weekend marking America’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’s social media feed.“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,” the city’s Parks and Rec department said on social media.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 City Hall’s X account has celebrated Juneteenth and Pride Month, but said nothing about America’s 250th. In June 2023, the council passed a resolution to fly Somalia’s flag. In June 2025, it passed a resolution “To Recognize and Celebrate July 1st as Somali Independence Day in the City of Columbus.”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 flagrant red flags in the country. 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’s Medicaid spending has doubled over the last decade, leading to a financial crisis.Ohio is facing a budget crisis due to Medicaid. Here’s one man’s thoughts, told to @ParkerThayer and I:“Blah blah blah… Journalists, who cares, journalists? Do you pay my bills? … (ominously) We know people to talk to…. I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.” pic.twitter/h5is7FnT5x— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) June 3, 2026Other 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 “a Mecca for Somalian populations. … We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn’t follow them here.”The unanswered questions posed to Columbus officials included:Is it inappropriate for a government building to fly the flag of a foreign country?Where did the idea to promote a Somali holiday originate from?Is there a conflict between Somalis being brought to Columbus as refugees because their home is uninhabitable, and celebrating that nation’s independence day?Do you think it’s odd to celebrate a foreign country heading into America’s 250th birthday? What days will or is the Somali flag flying? What is city hall doing for America’s independence?

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.

Ilhan Omar's sister used the address of a woman who was business partners with several major convicts in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal, a Daily Wire investigation found.

Ilhan Omar’s sister used the address of a woman who was business partners with several major convicts in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal, a Daily Wire investigation found.The federal meals scandal is described as the largest public theft in Minnesota history. The statehouse’s House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee is probing the Somali-born congresswoman’s involvement in the scandal, but Democrats in May blocked a subpoena that would require her to produce records.The congresswoman’s sister, Sahra Noor, ran People’s Center Clinics & Services in the Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis. While Ilhan Omar was a state representative, she arranged for a $2 million earmark to her sister’s “340B federally qualified health center.”Noor went on to found Grit Partners Consulting, and says she “has secured more than $20 million in funding for health initiatives and consulted on projects backed by the US CDC, USAID, GAVI, and the World Bank.”Grit Partners was incorporated at a home on Hyacinth Ave. in Lakeville. That address, and the woman who lives there, are lynchpins tying together at least three Feeding Our Future convicts, The Daily Wire found.The Hyacinth Ave. home is occupied by Mashah Ahmed Ali and his wife Ister (a.k.a. Ismahan) Ahmed Afraa. According to incorporation records, Afraa opened a company called Sunrise Business Center, Inc. alongside Hanna Marekegn. Marekegn in 2022 pleaded guilty to wire fraud for stealing $7 million.Marekegn claimed to be feeding 4,000 poor children a day. Instead she bought a mansion for herself, claiming she embodied the “American Dream.” Marekegn testified under oath that she falsely alleged racism to manipulate Minnesota bureaucrats to look the other way at red flags.Afraa also incorporated Sunshine Care Center MN, Inc., which claimed the same office address as Sunrise Business Center. On LinkedIn, Marekegn listed her employer as Sunshine Care Center at that address.Aimee Bock, the executive director of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future (Photo by Shari L. Gross/Star Tribune via Getty Images)Afraa is also tied to Aimee Bock, the Feeding our Future ringleader sentenced to 41 years in prison. Minnesota Department of Health data listed Bock as point of contact for Sunshine Care Center LLC.Her Hyacinth Ave. home was also the incorporation address of Diversity Childcare Center LLC, which listed Bock as point of contact.According to state investigative documents, Bock said the head of Sunshine Care Center MN, who is not named in the documents, was brought to Feeding Our Future by a woman named Sahra Nur – a key player in Feeding Our Future who was sentenced to four years in prison, and to whom Afraa is closely tied.Afraa was CEO of Aflah Property Inc., which operated out of Nur’s home on Fordham Ct NE. Afraa had a $30,000 state tax lien placed against her in April 2025, listing the Fordham home as the address.Nur’s home on Fordham Ct. was ground zero for Feeding Our Future, being used by at least 17 different companies, most of them designed to bill the government or launder profits.Nur was an owner of S & S Catering, which claimed to have made more than eight million meals. It enabled the fraud of the various Feeding Our Future nonprofits by giving them fake invoices so they could tell the government they spent money purchasing meals. The government reimbursed more than $12 million as a result, according to Nur’s indictment and guilty plea.Nur’s home was also used to set up some of those nonprofits, like the Academy for Youth Excellence, which allegedly stole $3.5 million in federal funds.It also housed Golis Properties LLC, which allegedly stole $3.9 million from taxpayers and used $2.5 million in stolen funds to buy an entire block on East Lake Street.Nur ran Kulmiye Management LLC, while Afraa, the woman connected to Omar’s sister, was an executive in Kulmiye Property LLC.Afraa bought a property directly across the street from one that was forfeited to the government, 2529 12th Avenue South, for being purchased with stolen funds.sahranoorAccording to Breitbart, Omar’s sister left her position at the People’s Center and moved to Kenya, with her Grit Partners doing work in Africa funded by the now-defunct USAID.Her husband, Mohamed Keynan, worked for the Minnesota Department of Human Services, but after going back to Africa, he has worked as chief of staff to the Somali Prime Minister and policy advisor to Somalia’s president, Breitbart said.The husband is also known as Mohamed Ali, the same last name as the owner of the Hyacinth home where Noor incorporated Grit Partners, Mashah Ahmed Ali. The latter created two companies: Pro Transit Allies LLC, seemingly a Medicaid transportation company; and Puntland Transport LLC. Puntland is an area of Somalia for which Mohamed Keynan – Ilhan Omar’s brother-in-law – is a fierce advocate.In a phone call with The Daily Wire, Mashah Ahmed Ali claimed to have never heard of any of the companies registered to his home or by his wife, saying someone must have created them without his knowledge. “There must be some sort of scam going on, I have no idea,” he said.“For the last 10 years I have a professional job, I have nothing to do with anything,” he said.Asked if his wife Afraa might be the person who knows about the companies in her name, he refused to provide her number. Afraa did not reply to a text sent to a number associated with her.Noor, who has written a book scheduled for release next month, did not return a request for comment.