Shocking New Fraud Reports From Ohio May Amount to $1 Billion

Is there something in the water right now? Yet another massive fraud scheme has been dragged into the sunlight, this one from Ohio, and the reported numbers are staggering. Possibly, in the billions.

First, the Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak, earlier in May, blew the lid off what he describes as widespread fraud and abuse, posting the results of his investigation on X.

https://t.co/7V1oWKxuWZ
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) May 4, 2026

Mr. Rosiak writes:

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.”

Incentives matter. This particular program is not just asking for fraud; it's down on its knees begging for fraud, so we shouldn't be surprised when people answer the call. This may as well have been an engraved invitation.

Here are just a few of the things Mr. Rosiak uncovered:

We went down several of those rabbit holes. In the coming days, you’ll meet:
A politician who founded an $11 million home health care company that he appeared to run part-time — without even mentioning it in his political biography — who funded his campaign with donations from other home health care owners.
A woman who reinvented her janitorial LLC as a “health” provider, then billed Medicaid nearly $100,000 the first month.
A landlord who bought airplanes after renting space to hundreds of home health care companies that billed Medicaid a quarter of a billion dollars.
A million-dollar Medicaid business owned by a couple with repeated fraud, violence, and theft convictions.
A man who went to prison for Medicaid fraud but told the government he was too broke to pay restitution, while his neighbors and associates preside over a poverty-program empire.
An accountant who lost his license for stealing public funds, then opened a $7 million home health company using the address of a convicted money launderer’s teenage son.

Your tax dollars at work.

We have seen, in several other massive fraud schemes likewise uncovered in the last few days, that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department have been at work dealing with this, and indictments are starting to drop like spring rain, and yet, we suspect, that this is a drop in the bucket.

The Hammer Comes Down As Minnesota Fraud Queen Gets Massive Sentence – but the Story Is Far From Over

All of this led to Mr. Rosiak sitting on a Republican Study Committee on the matter, on Thursday, in which Republican Representative Brandon Gill (TX-26) observed that we have been importing untold numbers of people from low-trust cultures, where this kind of fraud is routine. Mr. Rosiak's work is not in the eyes of Republicans in the House of Representatives, and perhaps we'll start seeing the kinds of aggressive indictments we are starting to see come out of Minnesota. You can view the entire committee meeting in the next X post:

🚨 LIVE NOW: RSC hosts roundtable led by @RepBrandonGill and @realDailyWire's @LukeRosiak to expose the staggering scale of government fraud draining taxpayer dollars and detail how House Republicans are cracking down to protect taxpayer dollars. https://t.co/3Pu8bmtkUT
— Republican Study Committee (@RepublicanStudy) May 21, 2026

The State of Ohio has already been acting on some of these claims, albeit smaller ones.

Indictments filed this month by the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost accuse five Medicaid providers of stealing a combined $542,176 from the government health-care program for the needy. Three additional people face charges for allegedly stealing from nursing home residents.

“Caregivers are meant to protect the vulnerable, not exploit them,” Yost said. “My office will never tolerate thieves who line their pockets at the expense of elderly, disabled and low-income Ohioans.”

The cases include two providers who billed for in-home services while traveling in the Caribbean, a home-health aide who billed while a client was hospitalized, and a Columbus man who allegedly stole money from a relative with dementia. One of the defendants alone accounts for more than $400,000 of the alleged fraud.

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, an arm of Yost’s office, investigated the cases and secured the indictments in Franklin County.

That's what we call a "good start."

Earlier, we saw in Minnesota a cruel and vicious scheme that defrauded the taxpayers, and diverted money and resources that were supposed to go to children who needed specialized care - American children. Now, in this case, we are seeing a number of cases in Ohio where people are accused of, yes, defrauding the taxpayers, and diverting money and resources that are supposed to go to the elderly and infirm.

Nobody voted for this. But decades of excessively fuzzy, feather-headed program development have made this possible. Yes, the people perpetrating these outrages have to be held to account. But the system itself has to be fixed as well; these programs have to be dismantled from the top down, to clean this up and make sure this doesn't happen again.

Watch all of Mr. Rosiak's testimony. If you weren't angry before, you will be after you see the whole thing.

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