Luke Rosiak

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

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

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.

An Islamist illegal alien murderer was allowed to escape back to his home country thanks to Virginia officials, who failed to get a guilty verdict

An Islamist illegal alien murderer was allowed to escape back to his home country thanks to Virginia officials, who failed to get a guilty verdict even after he admitted guilt, helped him get a foreign passport, and allowed him to leave the mental hospital on unsupervised visits.In 2019, Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda stabbed his roommate Mohammed Hemmatian to death in their Vienna, Virginia home. He was found “covered in blood from head to toe,” and told police “I am guilty,” according to court records. Less than a decade later he’s escaped punishment and is back home in his native Tajikistan.Court records show that Fairfax County was paying for an apartment for Toshpulodzoda to live in while on leave from his mental health facility. While on the 48-hour pass, and he bought a one-way ticket and fled to his country, which borders Afghanistan in Central Asia.“On July 6, 2026, the Acquittee was permitted to leave [the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute] on an approved forty-eight hour pass to an apartment made available through the Fairfax Permanent Supportive Housing Program,” the court documents obtained by The Daily Wire say. “He boarded an international flight at Washington Dulles International Airport and traveled to Istanbul, Turkey. He thereafter traveled to Dushanbe, Tajikistan.”Although Toshpulodzoda admitted guilt for the murder, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity after his attorney said he was “fixated on religious topics and he was illogical and nonsensical.“His brother would take him to a mosque for spiritual cleansing,” the lawyer said. “Unfortunately, his family did not assist Mr. Tospulodozoda with mental health treatment.”A psychologist named Sahair Monfared was put in charge of evaluating the man “given the intertwining of Islam with Mr. Tospulodozoda’s delusions,” and he recommended that he be granted the not guilty ruling. Another independent psychologist hired by the prosecutor’s office agreed.In October 2022, the not guilty by reason of insanity judgment was entered “with the concurrence of” the county prosecutor, Democrat Steve Descano, who won office with the financial backing of George Soros.In May 2024, Descano teamed up with the murderer’s lawyer to ask the judge to give him “permission for an escorted visit… to the Tajikistan Embassy in Washington, D.C. to obtain a passport.”In 2025, the Fairfax County Community Services Board and Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute acknowledged that Toshpulodzoda was an illegal immigrant and murderer, but said “the Forensic Review Panel is of the opinion that Mr. Toshpulodzoda is an appropriate candidate for conditional release,” meaning being able to leave confinement for good. The “conditional release plan” was signed by Azure Baron, chair of the panel, and six other officials.On June 11, 2026, Judge Stephen Shannon blocked the permanent release, writing that “the Acquittee remained mentally ill and in need of inpatient hospitalization” and “shall not be released from custody and inpatient hospitalization without further order of this Court.”Descano opposed the release. The judge’s reasons for blocking release included shielding the murderer from deportation, with court records saying the “Acquittee will not receive treatment if deported.”Just days later on June 25, the mental hospital, which is operated by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, authorized him for one of his “unaccompanied community visits not exceeding forty-eight hours,” which they had permitted since 2024, and which prosecutors said did not conflict with the ruling. The Department did not return a request for comment.Descano’s chief of staff, Laura Birnbaum, told The Daily Wire that the prosecutor’s office helped him get a passport “for documentary purposes,” and that the not-guilty ruling “is made by a judge after reviews from multiple independent clinicians.”“We have opposed his release specifically because of community concerns,” she said. Asked if Descano believed he should be deported, she said “our goal is to make sure people are not harmed wherever he ends up,” suggesting that deporting him would place a murderer on the loose in another country.She declined to say whether Descano opposes mental hospitals allowing murders 48-hour passes that cause them to live in the Virginia community. She said those decisions are up to the mental health department.However, a similar case in neighboring Loudoun County contradicts that. When the mental hospital proposed granting 16 hour unsupervised visits to Melvin Wasike, who similarly stabbed someone to death, Republican prosecutor Bob Anderson publicly objected and contacted the hospital, which reversed its decision.Descano has asked the judge for a “judicial capias” so Toshpulodzoda “may be apprehended and detained if he presents at any United States port of entry or is otherwise located within the United States.” The filing makes no mention of attempting to locate him abroad.Since 2021, 15 murderers in Fairfax County, nine of them with foreign names, have been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity or not competent to stand trial, according to data compiled by Virginians for Safe Communities.Descano is under investigation by the federal government after his campaign platform said he would help illegal immigrants avoid “immigration consequences.” The federal government and Republicans in Congress said that amounted to discrimination. Descano denied implementing his campaign promise, but a long list of cases show Descano repeatedly declining or dropping egregious charges against illegal immigrants.A large portion of the murders in Fairfax have come at the hands of illegals, such as Sierra Leone national Abdul Jalloh, 32, who had 30 prior arrests – almost all dropped by Descano – before he allegedly murdered Stephanie Minter at a Fairfax County bus stop, and Salvadoran migrant Marvin Morales-Ortez, 23, who allegedly fatally shot a man a day after authorities released him from jail and ignored a federal immigration detainer.Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has declined to hand illegal immigrant murderers over to federal immigration authorities.

One of the U.S. Senate's foremost waste-watchers has her eyes on a loophole that is exploited across every area where the government can be exploited.

This is part six 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.

This is part six 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.—COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 2008, the Amvets Post No. 89 sold its lodge on Westerville Road in Ohio’s capital city of Columbus to a Somali. The location, once a home for Americans who sacrificed for their country, soon housed dozens of trucking and Medicaid businesses.The owner, Ali Jama, went to prison for defrauding the government, but an examination of businesses in the area finds that his empire may have simply been taken over by his associates — other African immigrants who amassed riches at a shocking scale through billing poverty programs.This sixth installment of The Daily Wire’s investigation into Medicaid home health details the convoluted networks used to move money and assets between Somalis, making it difficult to stop or even identify abuse, and turning enforcement into a game of whack-a-mole.In January 2018, one of Jama’s Medicaid businesses, Alpha Star Health Care, was busted for defrauding the medical program of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even as he got rich off taxpayer money, Jama also filed tax returns claiming he made $0, resulting in a loss to the American treasury of at least $700,000.His defense was that he was a polygamist funneling money abroad, with his lawyer telling a judge, “Almost every penny he earns he sends to his families.” A year later in February 2019, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was released in May 2020.Jama owed restitution but told the government he was broke. On December 10, 2020, prosecutors wrote that he “failed to comply with the special conditions of supervised release by not making consistent monthly restitution payments (having only made four payments of $200 since May).” His lawyer replied that “the defendant works as a dispatcher at a trucking company. He has very limited resources.” He was let off supervised release early, court records show.If bank accounts in Jama’s name said zero, the same couldn’t be said of his neighbors and closest associates, who, despite coming as refugees from one of the poorest countries in the world, now control unfathomable wealth. Their wealth raises questions about whether Jama was just one pawn in a massive scheme that easily adapts to the occasional prosecution by shifting resources among its participants.A walk down Morality DriveThree doors down from Jama on Morality Drive, in the middle-class neighborhood where he lives, is a man named Omar Said Omar. He owns six buildings, one of which houses nine Medicaid businesses that collectively billed the government program nearly $20 million, according to government records.Omar was also an owner of Serenity Home Health Care, which has separately billed $33 million to taxpayers in recent years, at times exceeding $600,000 a month.Down the block in the other direction on Morality Drive is Ahmed Duale, who worked as Serenity Home Health Care’s administrative assistant and separately owns 11 properties in Columbus. Duale told The Daily Wire over the phone that he moved to Wisconsin to create a Medicaid group home there called Serenity Place, and that Omar sold the business to new management.A building owned by Omar that is the headquarters of Serenity Health Care Plus lists business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but when The Daily Wire arrived, a notice from fire marshals said they had repeatedly found it vacant.Jama’s home on Morality Drive was owned by Abdulkadir Mohammed, who ran a Medicaid firm at the former veterans hall and now runs a daycare in a building owned by a man named Ali Gelle, who was once arrested for allegedly threatening to kill a woman (the charge was dropped for insufficient evidence).According to property records, Mohammed got the home for free from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and later transferred it to an LLC he co-controls with someone who runs a firm called Care Homehealth Care LLC in another building Gelle owns.The veterans hall is now owned by Central Ohio Investment Properties LLC, which was created in 2018 by Gelle but consists of numerous people tied to Jama. LLC paperwork was sent to Jama himself, which, according to the Secretary of State’s office, means Jama’s online login was used to submit the forms.The real estate LLC’s address is the same as Accurate Home Healthcare, another Medicaid firm founded by Jama that is still operational. It billed taxpayers $10.6 million in recent years, including for “home visits” that a state audit found could not have occurred. Accurate’s CEO, Abdiweli Shiekhdon, is a partner in the veteran hall’s holding company.Another partner is Osman M. Issa, who registered to vote using Jama’s address and incorporated Pacific Home Health Services LLC, which billed Medicaid $8.1 million, according to the spending records. In 2006, Issa was charged with a fraud offense and paid a fine.The final partner is Abdirizak Bulshale, who is listed as running a home health firm out of an apartment, and is co-owners of another real estate LLC along with Ahmed Duale, Jama’s neighbor.Some of the participants used the same lawyer to form their various LLCs: Dwight Hurd, who was once convicted of felony fraud, before his conviction was overturned on a technicality by the state Supreme Court.Meet Ali GelleWith Jama sidelined by his conviction, it appears Ali Gelle became the new Medicaid magnate of the Midwest.Gelle has a lien against him for failure to pay his taxes, yet he owns or co-owns at least 14 properties in Columbus valued together at more than $4 million. The real estate is the site of far more lucrative operations.Most notable of the properties is a two-story building claimed as the address of 65 different companies registered to bill Medicaid, which collectively billed $35 million in recent years.The building at 2021 East Dublin Granville Road in Columbus might as well be called Gelle’s Medicaid emporium. Tenants take advantage of Ohio’s “personal services” expansion of the federal program, which allows non-medical professionals to bill the government for cooking and cleaning in private residences — often their own, since the workers can simply be the relatives of elderly people enrolled in the program.When The Daily Wire visited the property, a directory in the building’s lobby listed 28 home health care companies. Sitting on top were two ID cards, both for Somali men: A paper ID that expired 20 years ago, and a Nebraska commercial driver’s license issued to an Ali Abdi, with a birthday of January 1 — a common phenomenon among Somalis, suggesting his birthday is not known.Some of the Medicaid companies in the emporium are owned by Gelle, while others appear to be owned by people with ties to him, from a cab driver with whom he shared an apartment in California 20 years ago to a woman to whom he once sold a house.The Medicaid emporium building was purchased for $2.1 million by a partnership between Gelle and Ahmed Farah Mohamed, who also owns one of the companies inside: Accessible Home Healthcare LLC.Accessible Home Healthcare was the “doing business as” name of Jama & Sulub Home Healthcare LLC, which was busted in 2013 for misappropriating $700,000 from Medicaid. Even as it got rich off of taxpayer money, Accessible had liens placed against it for every year for not paying its own taxes, and in 2021 the Ohio Department of Taxation entered a $1.4 million judgment against it to try to collect.In 2024, Mohamed, Jama & Sulub’s co-landlord, incorporated a company by the same name. The one that owed money to the government operated out of Suite 185; now, the new firm operates out of Suite 188, and there is no Suite 185.One of the owners of Jama & Sulub, meanwhile, is listed as president of a different home health company founded by Gelle.Gelle has personally registered at least 16 for-profit companies, including A Plus Academic Achievement LLC and AAG Import & Export Co.NonprofitsGelle and the Medicaid emporium also demonstrate how home health owners often aren’t professionals who have dedicated their careers to health care, but rather opportunists who open businesses in numerous fields, with the commonality typically being that they either bill the government or enable the transfer of money overseas.The tenants of the Medicaid emporium that don’t bill Medicaid are mainly “social services” nonprofits that extract large sums of money from the government, while being run by the same cast of characters.Suite 110, for example, houses a nonprofit called Our Helpers, which has received $1.9 million in grants, including $279,000 from the state of Ohio. It shares the suite with both a home healthcare company and a group called Muslim Youth Revival.Our Helpers listed Hawa Farah, who public records suggest is Gelle’s wife, as treasurer. The organization says it exists to address “the unique struggles facing the Somali immigrant youth in terms of drug abuse, violence, extremism, etc. by creating a basketball program.”Suite 161 contains the Somali American Museum, funded by a grant from a city arts council. It is a fluorescent-lit room with pictures of the presidents of Somalia and a portrait of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).Another nonprofit, Global Social Services, was paid $2.6 million from the state of Ohio using the emporium address. It calls itself “a network that bring doners closer to the most needed of the society” [sic throughout]. The only events listed on its website are “Lorem Ipsum,” the pseudo-Latin phrase used as a placeholder.Gelle isn’t just landlord to that nonprofit; he is business partners with its founder, Abdinasser A. Omar. Together, the two make up A&A Property Management LLC, which owns a different building that receives rent from a taxpayer-funded “learning center.”A&A follows a pattern of moving on-paper ownership between family members and friends. The real estate venture was registered first to Gelle’s apparent brother Abdulwahab Ghelle, then to him.DaycareElsewhere in Columbus, Gelle owns two properties occupied by locations of Quality Adult Daycare Center LLC, on Woodland Avenue and West Broad Street. An Ohio government website notes that the taxpayer-funded facility “primarily serves Somali older adults.”On paper, Gelle doesn’t own the business, only the buildings. The daycare LLC was registered first to Gelle’s apparent wife, then to his apparent brother.One of the Quality Adult Daycare locations shares its building with Woodland Child Care Center. In Ohio records, the two facilities have different owners. Yet they share the same logo style, and a single graphical banner covers all windows — a choice that deprives any patients inside of natural light, but also conceals from the public whether anyone is actually inside.The childcare center is registered to Abdulkadir Hassan Mohamed, the roommate of Ali Jama who ran his own Medicaid company in the veterans hall, and Ali Mohamed Sheik. The pair also own a Medicaid company in Gelle’s emporium. (The Daily Wire called a number belonging to an Abdulkadir Mohamed, who said he was not the same person, but that a detective had recently come to his house looking for the other one.)Gelle also owns another building at 4523 Cleveland Avenue, which just so happens to house the Creator Children’s Center. A state inspection found that it failed to submit background checks on its employees, failed to keep attendance records, and had equipment stained with “blood or bodily fluids.”The daycare is run by Sarah Ogden, whose husband, David, runs three Medicaid firms that have been paid millions. Previously, the daycare building housed Maxim Therapy LLC, a company registered to Gelle’s apparent brother.TransportationThe network of financial vehicles used to transfer ownership between Somalis has been decades in the making. The vagaries of Somali names, and the labyrinthine nature of it all make it virtually impossible for the government to know where its money is going when it pays Somali Medicaid businesses.In 2003, a company called African Auto Sale was incorporated at 1686 E. Hudson Avenue by Ali Ahmed Mohamed — according to court records, an alias of Gelle — and Ahmed Sulub Mohamoud, the owner of the home care company that was later busted. Later, Gelle would be added as a new registered agent, even though he was the same person using a different name.In 2006, they adopted the doing-business-as name Linden Transportation, writing that its line of work was “Medical Trasportation [sic].” That was a trade name, not the official LLC name. Confusing matters, a different person named Issa Sulub Mahamud — seemingly the brother of the other Sulub — then created an actual LLC called Linden Transportation LLC at the same address.Issa shows how this convoluted Somali network spans from Columbus to Minneapolis (according to Just The News, Somalis disclosed bringing $130 million in bulk cash on flights from Columbus to Minneapolis or Atlanta between 2023 and 2025, much of it then going overseas). He has been affiliated with a daycare, a feeding site, and a home health company in Ohio. He once had a $32,000 federal tax lien. He eventually moved to Minneapolis, where he owned APlus Health Care LLC, which billed Medicaid $35,000 for a single month, then disappeared.Gelle denied knowing Ali Jama and declined to answer questions, calling the request “harassment” and saying he would call the police on The Daily Wire.Instead, following our earlier reporting in this series, law enforcement suspended a firm in the emporium, Comfort and Care Home Health. Its proprietor, Vinna Ugwu, has six houses registered to her name.Parker Thayer, an investigator for the Capital Research Center, contributed reporting.