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A whistleblower claims that the Somali migrant community in Ohio is also involved in the same sort of massive social services funding fraud being uncovered day-by-day in Minnesota.
Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke says that the same sort of theft of public funding seen in Minnesota has been occurring in the Buckeye State for more than a decade, Fox News reports.
Cooke also accuses Ohio doctors of “rubber stamping” the fraud by failing to do any due diligence on those who are filing for aid.
“They’re just rubberstamping a lot of these. And then that same individual, a week later, that’s supposed to be bedridden, is all over social media, whether they’re out dancing at a party or something like that. So, the symptoms aren’t really adding up at the end of the day,” Cooke says.
Cooke adds that the Somali scammers in Ohio are exploiting a loophole in the state’s Medicaid program that has doled out as much as $91,000 a year per individual, money that is supposed to be paying to care for elderly or infirm family members in the home. She says that Ohio’s system is the “easiest in the Midwest to game.”
Many blame the Somali fraud issue on the country’s flawed culture. “Amoral familism is a [Somali] cultural blueprint,” says Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who fled from her Somali father to live in Europe. “It assumes that… survival depends on extracting maximum benefit for one’s own family,” regardless of the damage to fellow citizens, she wrote in December.
Cooke also alleges that many of these doctors are getting kickbacks from the scammers.
Cooke explained how the scam works, telling Fox News, “Say I want to take care of my elderly aging parents at some point. I can become a home health provider, and this is where the Somali community has been really clever. They’ve been able to find loopholes in Ohio law to provide for care for family members, even when they don’t need it.” --->READ MORE HERE
An Ohio attorney and self-described “Trump surrogate” is alleging that for over a decade, members of the Somali community in Ohio have defrauded millions of dollars from the state’s Medicaid program.
Attorney Mehek Cooke joined Fox News Digital for an interview in which she explained how healthcare providers have shared with her that members of the Somali community in Ohio, which is the second largest in the country, have pressured them to “rubberstamp” a person to receive Medicaid funding to become a home healthcare provider for a family member who doesn’t actually need it. Once the fraudsters begin to receive Medicaid funding, clinicians will receive a kickback.
“The ones that are corrupt, the ones that are getting kickbacks, the ones that know full well that a Somalian individual really doesn't need that care, they're just rubber stamping a lot of these,” Cooke said. “And then that same individual a week later that's supposed to be bedridden is all over social media, whether they're out dancing at a party or something like that, so the symptoms aren't really adding up at the end of the day.”
Fraudsters have pocketed upwards of $60,000 a year per individual approved to be provided with a family member as a home healthcare provider, which Cooke calls an exploitation of loopholes in the state’s law.
"Say I want to take care of my elderly aging parents at some point. I can become a home health provider, and this is where the Somali community has been really clever. They've been able to find loopholes in Ohio law to provide for care for family members, even when they don't need it," Cooke said. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Whistleblower warns massive fraud is happening in Ohio Somali community, Minnesota ‘just tip of the spear’+++++
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