by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
A massive welfare-fraud scandal, involving millions of dollars in stolen taxpayer money, is now unfolding in Maine, mirroring the billion-dollar criminal scam that is currently rocking Minnesota.
A former insider has stepped forward alleging that Gateway Community Services, a Somali-owned company in Maine, systematically falsified Medicaid billing records in a scheme eerily similar to the one federal prosecutors say looted Minnesota taxpayers and helped fuel criminal networks.
Those involved in the fraud scheme, according to ICE, funneled stolen taxpayer money to Al-Shabaab, a designated terrorist organization.
Whistleblower: “It just got worse and worse”
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Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” for Gateway, told NewsNation that the organization routinely billed Maine’s Medicaid program for services never provided.
“I have a passion for helping people, and I thought that we were doing the right thing this whole time,” Bernardini said.
“When I had clients calling me to tell me their staff hadn’t shown up, and I was told to bill those hours anyway.
“It just got worse and worse until I started really putting up a stink.”
He also said the company manipulated its electronic monitoring system to make it appear that field workers were visiting vulnerable clients when they weren’t.
Gateway received $28.8 million in Medicaid funds, according to documents obtained by The Maine Wire.
The company’s owner, Abdullahi Ali, reportedly has political ties in Somalia.
Ali was billing MaineCare after returning to Somalia to run to be the Warlord of Jubaland.
