The Ohio Fraud Will Blow You Away

Luke Rosiak, an outstanding reporter for the Daily Wire, has been posting an explosive series on his investigation into welfare fraud in Ohio, which appears to be another epic center of primarily Somali fraud. 

He’s been dropping reports daily, and I haven’t written about this yet because I wanted to get a feel for his reporting on the matter as a whole. 

And, knowing how these things work, what you see in any news story or even investigative series is often the tip of the iceberg, largely because conspiracies this large are just too vast to cover in the detail that they would deserve in, say, a prosecution. Juries have to sit through weeks of prosecutors laying out evidence, while the rest of us just want the bottom line up front. 

That bottom line is simple enough: there is fraud on a scale so massive, and that was so obvious that it would take Helen Keller not to have noticed it. 

My favorite bit: Somalian government officials were so impressed by how easy it was to commit fraud that they got into the business themselves!

Omg

Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism.

His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too.… https://t.co/9QZIkGrGEl pic.twitter.com/mzLt0OI3S8

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 2, 2026

Omg

Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs who owns a healthcare company in Ohio receiving tax dollars, also owns another LLC with the SAME ADDRESS as the somali money transfer org accused of funding t*rrorism.

His business partner appears to work for the money transfer org too.

This just keeps getting worse and worse

Liberal politicians love to complain about Wall Street fraud, but from what I can see, there is no criminal organization more rapacious than government officials. 

You’ve heard about this story. Now you get to see it.

I traveled to Columbus, Ohio, and witnessed the most egregious government waste I’ve seen in my 20 years as an investigative reporter.

This has been going on for years, and you’ve been paying for it.

Take a look⬇️ pic.twitter.com/E16xiXZ1eo

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 6, 2026

Luke’s series is eye-opening. Not because the fraud itself is so shocking—how could it be, given the glimpses we have seen in Minnesota, Maine, and California—but because it is so pervasive and easy to catch if you look for it. 

I set my sights on Ohio, which like Minnesota, has been granted waivers to expand Medicaid well beyond its original purpose. Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform “homemaking” and “chores” like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these “personal services” tasks don’t even have to be health care workers — and in many cases, are actually relatives of the Medicaid recipient.

According to a Daily Wire data analysis, Ohio spent a billion dollars on home health care in 2024, the last year for which data is available.

Since the services are performed inside private residences, there is no way to know whether the workers went at all, or what they’re actually doing in exchange for taxpayer funds. An infinite number of small black boxes inside a black box. Multiple signs said the service provided, and billed to the government, was sometimes just “companionship & conversation.”

As people have realized the United States government will pay them to hang out with their own families, northeast Columbus has seen its economy replaced by businesses that bill Medicaid. And Columbus, a city with the second largest Somali population in the country, has become, on the surface, the most unhealthy city on the planet.

“Well if the government is going to pay you to do it,” one home health operator told me. “People see it as lucrative, so they just jump on it.”

The new welfare queens aren’t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They’re the companies getting rich off them.

In a place like Minnesota or California, you can almost understand why the government officials collaborated with fraudsters, but it appears that even in states you would expect to have been better, such as Ohio, all it takes is a large enough community of people from low-trust societies to build up massive fraud networks and have bureaucrats look the other way. 

In Minnesota, whistleblowers said that their supervisors worried that they would be accused of racism if they exposed the fraud, as has indeed happened, and it was obviously easier to look the other way rather than face a backlash for higher-ups.

Clearly, there was high-level collaboration from the Democratic politicians here—Keith Ellison is on tape talking about campaign money with the fraudsters while promising to help them out—but it’s also likely that bureaucrats themselves know that rooting out fraud will only cause headaches, and since they are spending other people’s money, they choose the easy path. 

It’s clear that the system is rotten to the core, and that easy money during and after COVID supercharged the problem. 

Luke’s entire series is worth diving into. The video gives a great overview, of course, but there is a lot to the story. 

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