A massive show of federal force descended on Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday following a Daily Wire investigation into Medicaid, with top Trump administration officials including Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and the head of Medicaid Dr. Mehmet Oz on the ground to announce major anti-fraud initiatives. At a joint press conference in Columbus, the administration officials announced several steps that are being taken to eliminate fraud in the state. Forty-nine home health care firms have been suspended (most of them in the buildings highlighted in our stories), and one was raided Thursday morning, Dr. Oz said. He specifically mentioned The Daily Wire’s findings, saying “there’s a road here very close to where we are [with] 288 facilities in one block,” and “no more champagne on private jets.” The press conference came a day after the House Oversight Committee spotlighted the Daily Wire’s reporting, in which task force chairman Brandon Gill drilled down into the abuse’s connection to refugee communities. Oz highlighted that connection. “This is a Mecca for Somalian populations, it’s a hub for the Bhutanese and Nepalese. We were naive to think that practices that are common in other parts of the world wouldn’t follow them here,” he said. The assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, Colin McDonald, said that Ohio’s attorney general will announce an $11 million action from the state’s Medicaid fraud control unit, that Ohio’s secretary of state has signed a data-sharing agreement giving investigators access to corporate ownership records, and that State Auditor Keith Faber has applied to have federal fraud investigators detailed to the state. “To the people of Ohio, if someone offers you a medical perk that sounds too good to be true, it is,” McDonald said. “We are resolved to till every field and turn over every rock to bring [fraudsters] to justice.” There were numerous announcements of fraud in various fields in the state. Dominick Gerace, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, announced a $30 million Medicaid fraud prosecution involving non-existent autism care. He said a home health care company in Columbus was raided Thursday morning, but that he would not be sharing details. “This task force is going to operate similar to how we operate in the violent crime space, we’re going to inject a sense of urgency,” he said. David Tuppler, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said five individuals from Ghana have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, involving swindling the elderly. “They devised a romance scheme to establish trust and then tell stories of vast inheritances and convince the elderly to pay them, using it to buy a mansion in Ghana, a Lamborghini,” he said. Luxury cars that had been seized were on display at the press conference. Andrew Ferguson, who co-chairs the anti-fraud task force alongside Vice President J.D. Vance, announced that major actions were being taken outside of the state to combat fraud as well. In Hawaii, he announced during the press briefing that the state’s Medicaid fraud control unit was decertified. He said the federally-funded unit astoundingly “didn’t produce a single indictment of a fraudster from 2021 through 2026,” a near-certain sign that nobody was even looking. Ferguson pledged a “two-pronged attack on fraudsters: DOJ will put fraudsters in jail, and the agencies will make sure we install safeguards to the money never reaches the fraudsters in the first place.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s message was clear. “This is a good day for Ohio,” Blanche said.