Patriot Brief
What Happened: A top HHS official confirmed Somalia’s UN ambassador and current Security Council president is associated with an Ohio home healthcare agency previously punished for Medicaid fraud.
Why It Matters: The revelation comes amid a widening childcare and social services fraud scandal centered in Minnesota that has already triggered federal intervention.
Bottom Line: The case is fueling scrutiny of federal oversight, foreign officials operating in the U.S., and how taxpayer-funded programs are monitored and enforced.
This is one of those stories that makes Americans stop and ask how this was ever allowed to happen in the first place. At a moment when massive fraud investigations are unfolding across the Midwest, we now learn that the sitting president of the UN Security Council is linked to a U.S. healthcare agency previously punished for Medicaid fraud. This is not fringe speculation or anonymous sourcing. This came straight from a senior Health and Human Services official. While working families are told there is no money left and systems are overwhelmed, the people overseeing global security somehow keep finding their way into American taxpayer-funded programs with little accountability.
Fox News reports:
Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neill said in a statement that he "can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati."
"HHS has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud," O’Neill said before promising "more to come."
O’Neill’s statement referenced claims about Osman and Progressive that had circulated online last week, including on the popular social media account LibsOfTikTok, run by commentator Chaya Raichik.
"Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN Abukar Dahir Osman was a healthcare administrator in Ohio. There is another healthcare company in the same suite as his with a different name, and multiple others at the same address, all with Somali names," Raichik said.
"[Osman’s] company was convicted of Medicaid fraud while he worked in a Medicaid office in Ohio," she added. O’Neill also referenced that conviction.
Americans are right to be angry when stories like this keep surfacing, especially as leaders lecture them about trust and transparency. If the system keeps rewarding insiders while taxpayers foot the bill, it is no wonder confidence keeps eroding, and it is exactly why accountability still matters.
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