This is the third part 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 family. COLUMBUS, Ohio — After the federal government approved a waiver allowing Ohio to expand Medicaid by paying housekeepers to spend time at elderly people’s houses to help with tasks like “homemaking” and “chore services,” taxpayers across the country footed a shocking $2.5 billion worth of bills between 2018 and 2024, according to a trove of Medicaid data released for the first time by the Trump administration. The demand for free home care was so high in Ohio that taxpayers spent more on that “personal services” category, Medicaid’s term for non-medical in-home help, than any other outpatient service. The program allows for people who aren’t medical professionals to get paid by the government for work done inside private residences, where what was performed, and even whether anything was done, is essentially unverifiable. The state’s largest outpatient Medicaid category therefore relies on trust. So who’s facilitating payments from the government? The Daily Wire spent weeks analyzing the Medicaid data released by the Trump administration as part of its effort to weed out wasteful government spending. I went to Ohio, and found clusters of home healthcare providers that bill the government millions of dollars in desolate buildings filled with empty offices. At 1415 East Dublin Granville Road, one of the Columbus buildings we visited in our investigation, we found True Home Healthcare LLC. All that appeared on its door was a tattered piece of printer paper that read, “SORRY WE MISSED YOU, OUT FOR A QUICK BREAK.” In Medicaid records, the owner is listed Mamusu Kanu. According to a review of public records, Kanu has had a slew of criminal convictions, including for theft, assault, and DUI, as well as several civil judgments and tax liens. Kanu was charged with felony aggravated assault in Virginia, and convicted of theft in Columbus in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The company True Home Healthcare LLC received $100,000 in December 2023 alone off just 15 patients, according to our analysis of federal spending data. In a phone interview, Mamusu Kanu, who goes by “Sue,” denied that she had a criminal record, before declaring: “Even if I do, it doesn’t have anything to do with nobody. They [Medicaid] certify you before you do anything.” Incorporation documents for True Home Healthcare don’t list Kanu, but rather a man named Alieu Conteh. The couple are married and have been partners in crime for decades. On December 12, 2004, both Kanu and Conteh were charged with theft in Columbus. They previously lived in Alexandria, Virginia, where they stiffed multiple landlords. Court records show the couple faced foreclosure in Columbus immediately before opening their Medicaid business. Two months. Millions of documents. A full investigative team. That’s what this story required. Most outlets can’t afford work like this, which is why it doesn’t happen. We’ve chosen to make it happen. Support more of it by becoming a member of Daily Wire. In Franklin County, where Columbus is located, court records show Conteh has faced 25 charges. He’s had additional convictions elsewhere, including for endangering children. Conteh acknowledged his criminal history, but said it didn’t interfere with his ability to do business with Medicaid. “Yes, I do have a lot of records,” Conteh told The Daily Wire. “I was just too dumb I didn’t even know what is law.” “We came up to do business. I put in my application with the government, Medicaid, Medicare, they check. They see all my history … and they approved the business to operate,” Conteh said. “Do you want to tell me I don’t have rights to own a business?” Conteh had a roster of aliases that he would give to the police, such as Osman Kanu and Gbssay Gbla, leading to multiple fraud convictions. “That way I cannot be arrested when I knew I was driving with a suspended license,” he told The Daily Wire. Records confirm that Conteh’s criminal past was not a problem with licensing. In 2012, Ohio’s Board of Nursing permitted Conteh to become a nurse under a probationary agreement that acknowledged his repeated fraud and violent tendencies: “In 2007, Mr. Conteh was convicted of one (1) amended misdemeanor count of Disorderly Conduct that stemmed from him grabbing and striking an adult female family member,” the government document states, also referencing “retail theft,” “falsification,” and “providing a false name/information to a police officer.” The probationary license was contingent on his meeting certain terms, including being honest, disclosing his employers to the nursing board, and refraining from crimes. He did none of those things. He was convicted of DUIs in September 2014 and November 2014. When he submitted an application to renew his nursing license in 2016, he falsely said he had not been convicted of any crimes, and that he was unemployed, even though he was in fact working as a nurse. His license was suspended in July 2017. “I was just too dumb I didn’t even know what is law… I put in my application with the government, Medicaid, Medicare, they check. They see all my history … and they approved.” In September 2017, Conteh told the nursing board he “intended to seek alcohol dependency treatment and regretted his actions.” Just eight days later, he was arrested for DUI yet again. Conteh also “reported having a prior history of Cocaine use,” a January 2018 deal with the nursing board said. The deal said his license would be suspended through at least January 2019, and required him to submit to drug and alcohol tests — which he then failed, claiming it was a “momentary relapse.” In January 2020, he was reinstated as a nurse, subject to permanent limits. “Unless otherwise approved in advance by the Board or its designee, Mr. Conteh shall not practice nursing as a licensed practical nurse (1) for agencies providing home care in the patient’s residence” or “where the job duties or requirements involve financial activity.” Nonetheless, Conteh and his wife created their own company, one that would involve unsupervised and unverifiable home visits, and rely on their honesty to accurately bill the government. True Home Healthcare was certified as a Medicaid provider in April 2021; between May 2021 and October 2024, it billed taxpayers $936,000. It had 12 customers when it opened its doors, and 12 customers in October 2024, the last month for which data is available, according to the HHS data. Monthly Medicaid payments to True Home Healthcare Conteh suggested he had not notified the nursing board that he was working in home health, and said he doesn’t think he has to. “I don’t work for home healthcare,” Conteh said. “I own one.” He said he neither dealt with finances or patients. “My role, I sit in the office,” he told The Daily Wire. Asked how he finds the clients and whether he advertises, Conteh said that’s unnecessary. “That is a very unnecessary question,” he said. “The patient just comes.” “How do we as taxpayers know that they’re real? The database says you got $100,000 in a single month,” I asked. “I don’t have an answer for you,” he said. He then issued vague threats, saying, “You still asking some questions that are very irrelevant and unnecessary. I already know who you are, your parents, and so forth.” After I asked why Alieu Conteh said he mentioned my parents, he hung up, then called back and said he had not said that, but instead said the word “apparently.” Moments later, a woman who would not identify herself called from a different number and made clear that was a lie. “I’m gonna have to handle you a different way … let me tell you what will happen,” she said, before rattling off names of the reporter’s loved ones. Kanu then called back and said, despite Medicaid records showing it using the billing code for “personal services” like homemaking, the company actually provided nursing service, installing intensive medical equipment like ventilators, and had closer to 40 Medicaid patients, significantly more than are shown in records. The Daily Wire asked the Ohio Department of Medicaid about any possible discrepancy in the data. After nine days, the department pointed The Daily Wire to the federal government — which simply gathers the information from the states. The couple that has repeatedly harmed people’s physical health and committed fraud is getting rich off of your money. Owners of Medicaid companies that share True Home Healthcare’s building This is just what unfurled behind a single door in the seemingly endless labyrinth of home healthcare companies billing Medicaid millions in Columbus. Conteh is not even the only person with his last name, one of the most common in the Western African nation of Sierra Leone, taking advantage of the industry in Columbus. Shortly before Alieu Conteh’s True Home Healthcare began billing Medicaid, a man named Alfred Conteh was busted for Medicaid fraud in Columbus and banned from the program. In May 2020, Alfred was caught “submitting false documentation of home health services provided to Medicaid beneficiaries on dates when video surveillance confirmed he was not physically present at the homes of the beneficiaries in question,” the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general said. He was charged in Franklin County Municipal Court in April 2022, and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in August 2022. The punishment for Medicaid fraud is so lenient that it provides little deterrent. Alfred Conteh was only required to reimburse for charges that video conclusively proved he could not have provided ($607) while taking his word for the rest. His criminal case no longer appears in Ohio court records, which a court clerk said suggests it was expunged. The Ohio nursing board let him keep his license. The only significant punishment is being placed on Medicaid’s Exclusions list for five years, preventing him from billing more. Is Alfred Conteh related to Allieu Conteh, or is bilking Medicaid simply that common among immigrants from Sierra Leone? It’s hard for the government, or anyone else, to know for sure. But with thousands of home health care companies, constantly being created and decommissioned, and whose LLC partners are not always public or seem to be placed in relatives’ names, that’s easy enough to get around. Alfred Conteh has now moved to Alexandria, Virginia, the same city where Sue and Alieu lived, records show. He also shared a home with someone with the last name of Gbla — one of Alieu’s aliases. Allieu denied any relation. Following earlier installments in this Daily Wire series,  Vice President JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy, now Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, both vowed to investigate potential fraud in the state. Ohio’s current Republican governor, Mike DeWine, has said he has no reason to believe there’s any unaddressed fraud in the state, and stated in response to this investigation that “Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place.” Parker Thayer, an investigator for the Capital Research Center, contributed reporting.

Families embarking on cruise ship vacations may have more to worry about than infectious diseases. U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently raided five cruise ships, including one Disney cruise ship, as they identified predators viewing and distributing child sexual exploitation material.  The operation took place in San Diego between April 23 and 25, leading to 28 individuals being arrested, The California Post reported. “After boarding the vessels and interviewing 26 suspected crew members from the Philippines, one suspected crew member from Portugal, and one from Indonesia, officers confirmed all subjects were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” a CBP spokesperson told the outlet. “CBP cancelled their visas and these criminals are being removed from our country,” the statement went on.  “We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement. While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company,” a Disney rep said in response to the news. Some passengers reportedly witnessed the arrests on board the ship last month, but the reason for the raids were unknown at the time. Some Left-leaning online commenters incorrectly deduced that the employees were being targeted for their immigration status, which led to them criticizing ICE operations.  The news comes during a bad PR week for cruise ships. A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde has been making headlines after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated. Three people – a Dutch couple and a German national – have died in the outbreak. A total of eight people are suspected to have contracted the virus, with three of them confirmed by laboratory testing, the World Health Organization said. Disney employees have been accused in engaging in heinous sex crimes in the past. A Florida sheriff said that his department regularly caught Disney employees during undercover operations while revealing the results of a week-long investigation into human trafficking in 2022.  Guillermo Perez, a bellhop for Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, was arrested during the sting, as The Daily Wire previously reported. 

The Minnesota Board of Pardons — which includes Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison — voted unanimously to pardon an illegal immigrant from Laos with three assault convictions, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). At Xayasounethone Chandee was convicted of assault in 1992, and an immigration judge ordered his deportation in 1995, DHS said. Chandee also had a conviction from 2008 for two felony counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, according to the agency. Chandee entered the country as a Green Card holder when he was a minor. He was later stripped of his immigration status due to his criminal convictions, DHS said. The board called an emergency meeting Monday after learning that the Trump administration could deport Chandee this week, according to Minnesota Public Radio. DHS called the board’s decision “absolute insanity,” adding that it could foil its plans to deport him. “Minnesota’s sanctuary politicians’ pardon took away this violent thug’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the U.S.,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement on Thursday. Chandee applied for a pardon shortly before federal immigration agents arrested him in January, Minnesota Public Radio reported. The Clemency Review Commission, which recommends clemency decisions to the pardon board, voted 6-0 in favor of Chandee’s pardon, the outlet reported. The board wasn’t scheduled to meet until June, but moved up the meeting after learning that Chandee could be deported within days. “There is nothing in this application, or nothing in the facts before us that would suggest that Mr. Chandee is a danger to the public in any way, shape or form,” Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, who sits on the board, said of the pardon. “He has a lot of family support, which is obviously very important, and he’s had that support over the last 29 years.” A federal appeals court in Louisiana paused Chandee’s deportation for 14 days after his attorney filed a request last week, according to Minnesota Public Radio. The federal government is likely to challenge Chandee’s pardon, his attorney, Linus Chan, said. Chan also argued that the 2008 conviction never happened, the outlet reported. There was also no mention of it in his clemency application. “There is no such conviction, and I am reaching out to DHS about where this information is coming from,” Chan said. The commission recommended clemency for all applicants, except one, who were at risk of deportation, Minnesota Public Radio reported.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio held face-to-face meetings with Pope Leo on Thursday as President Donald Trump has continued to trade barbs with the pope over the Iran war.  In Vatican City, Rubio, America’s top diplomat and a Roman Catholic, met with Pope Leo and Holy See Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to discuss issues such as the Middle East. A State Department official told The Daily Wire that “today’s conversations were friendly and constructive.” “Secretary of State Marco Rubio met today with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to discuss the situation in the Middle East and topics of mutual interest in the Western Hemisphere,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. “The meeting underscored the strong relationship between the United States and the Holy See and their shared commitment to promoting peace and human dignity.” During the meeting, Rubio also discussed the United States’ work with the Catholic Church and Caritas in Cuba with the Holy See leadership, according to the State Department official. The meeting follows recent clashes between President Trump and the pope, whose outspoken criticism of the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran has drawn sharp rebukes from the president. Ahead of Rubio’s meeting, Trump sent a “simple” message to the leader of the Catholic Church. “As far as the Pope is concerned, it’s very simple. Whether I make him happy or I don’t make him happy: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “And he seemed to be saying that they can, and I say, they cannot.”

This week, something extraordinary happened. Two opposing forces collided — like matter and antimatter — at a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, coffee shop of all places. No moderators, no debate stage. Just two women, sitting next to each other by chance on a New York morning. Melanie Shiraz, the reigning Miss Israel 2025, was in town for an event at the Israeli Consulate. Rama Duwaji, the anti-Semitic, terror-sympathizing wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, happened to be at the same café. It started warmly, they chatted, and they even took a selfie together. For one brief, shining moment, it looked like the world’s most unlikely peace summit was about to break out over oat milk lattes in Brooklyn. Then Shiraz told her who she was, and the moment Duwaji realized she was sitting next to a Jew — not just any Jew, the Jew — the warmth evaporated. The coffee chat turned into a cage match, and before the bell could clang, Duwaji caved and cut for the exit. Sigh, what could have been. This interaction is emblematic of a much larger problem. Increasingly, the Left is refusing to engage in productive dialogue. Disagree with them, and they shut you up, scream racist, or in Duwaji’s case, simply leave. To understand the full magnitude of what happened in that coffee shop, you need to understand who these two women are. Duwaji has a checkered history, to put it generously. She liked posts celebrating the October 7th, 2023, terrorist massacre. She posted that Tel Aviv “shouldn’t exist in the first place.” She posted a photograph of Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled with the approving caption, “If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death.” And lest you think her hatred is selective, she also posted “Helllll yeah, n****a,” referred to gay people with a slur, and complained about “fgts” following her online. That’s the thing about social media — it has a habit of exposing your underlying motivations and deepest convictions. Hers? A gay-hating, Jew-hating, white-hating racist. Quite the package. Exactly the kind of woman Zohran Mamdani couldn’t imagine spending the rest of his life without. Though, in fairness, the two are well matched. Her husband has blamed FBI surveillance for radicalizing al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, he’s refused to condemn “Globalize the Intifada,” and he’s repeatedly called Israel’s Gaza operations “genocide,” even though the Palestinian population increased during the war. This power couple sits at the absolute outer edge of anti-Israel politics — which makes it all the more delicious that the missus of New York City ended up seated next to Miss Israel at a coffee shop. And what did Miss Israel do with this golden opportunity? She extended the hand of dialogue, an olive branch. “As an Israeli, I was disappointed in seeing the kind of rhetoric she was promoting online,” Shiraz said. “But I told her part of my ideology as an Israeli is to have productive dialogue in which one side is not constantly dehumanized.” She didn’t scream or protest; she simply asked for a conversation. Perfect! An opportunity for dialogue to hash out differences, find common ground, change the world! Right? Wrong. Duwaji shut down and ran out the door. This is the critical detail that exposes the Left’s bad faith most completely: Duwaji had already issued a public apology for her posts. She’d addressed her comments publicly. She was, apparently, capable of performing contrition for the press. But she couldn’t bring herself to speak to an actual Israeli, sitting two feet away, offering nothing more threatening than dialogue. She’ll apologize to a journalist. She won’t talk to a Jew. Why engage with the enemy when you can let your preconceived notions fester, unchallenged, for the rest of time? Why exercise epistemic humility — admitting what you don’t know, accepting that you might be wrong — when you can seal yourself inside a brain-dead feedback loop and call it righteousness? Duwaji isn’t unique. She isn’t the exception. She’s the rule. And the rule is emotivism: feelings dressed up as moral arguments. If you believe Israel had the right to defend itself after October 7th — the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — you hate Palestinians. If you believe children shouldn’t undergo irreversible surgical mutilation before they’ve hit puberty, you hate the 2SLGBTQQIA crowd. If you believe immigration law should be enforced, you’re Hitler. And if Hitler were around today, we’d kill him, so therefore… No dialogue. No understanding. No epistemic humility. Just a false dichotomy: you’re with us, or you’re against us. And if you’re against us, you’re not wrong — you’re evil. And evil people don’t deserve a response; they only deserve a reckoning. That’s not a political position. It’s the intellectual surrender of a movement too fragile to defend its own ideas. Melanie Shiraz sat down, introduced herself, and offered Rama Duwaji the one thing the Left always claims to want: a chance to talk. Duwaji looked across the table, saw an Israeli, and chose the door. She ran straight back to hide in Gracie Mansion, where reality and hard questions are never allowed inside.