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The High Points
Whistleblower says a Somali-owned group billed Maine for services never provided.
Millions in Medicaid funds allegedly diverted through falsified documents and tracking manipulation.
Similar schemes in Minnesota allegedly fueled overseas militias and Islamic extremists.
You almost couldn’t script this: a Maine Medicaid provider allegedly run by a Somali political aspirant, reportedly bragging about militias overseas, is now accused of billing taxpayers for services that never happened. But if you bring that up? You’re the problem—racist, obviously. Not the alleged fraud, not the missing oversight, not the money possibly routed toward foreign political ambitions. No, it’s the Republican who asks questions who should apologize.
Minnesota just lived through a billion-dollar Somali-fraud disaster tied to Al-Shabaab. ICE is literally targeting Somali illegal immigrants there because of it. Maine whistleblowers claim they saw the same billing tricks, the same political pressure to look away. But Democrats prefer screaming “xenophobia” to admitting their sanctuary policies are giant, blinking neon signs saying “come grift here.”
Fraud isn’t compassion. Robbing taxpayers to bankroll overseas militias isn’t “diversity.” And calling every critic racist doesn’t make the corruption less real—it only makes it easier.
From Western Journal:
A Somali-owned company may have defrauded Maine in a manner similar to schemes that ripped off at least $1 billion from Minnesota, a whistleblower told NewsNation Monday.
Christopher Bernardini, a former “billing guru” at Gateway Community Services, said that the company falsified documents to obtain payment from Maine’s Medicaid program for services to low-income and disabled clients, NewsNation reported. Abdullahi Ali, the owner of the company, reportedly ran for office in Jubaland, a region of Somalia, and boasted about funding a militia there, according to The Maine Wire.
“I have a passion for helping people and I thought that we were doing the right thing this whole time,” Bernardini told NewsNation, later adding, “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.”
A Somali non-profit leader was billing MaineCare while running to be the Warlord of Jubaland.@BigSteve207 joined @CarlHigbie to explain how the Mills administration enabled the grift: pic.twitter.com/2iSkCUk8V3
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) December 3, 2025
Bernardini told NewsNation that an electronic monitoring system intended to track field staff was manipulated to make it appear the clients were visited when staff actually failed to show up.
Gateway Community Services received $28.8 million in Medicaid funds from Maine, according to documents obtained by The Maine Wire via a Freedom of Access Act request.
Democrats in Maine have attacked Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles of Maine as a racist for raising concerns about The Maine Wire’s reports.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is surging into the Minneapolis area to target illegal immigrants from Somalia after revelations about at least $1 billion in fraud, some of which allegedly went to the radical Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab.
State employees accused Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of engaging in “systemic” retaliation against whistleblowers who warned of the fraud schemes as the Justice Department is pursuing three federal cases involving the scandal.
Walz admitted during a Nov. 30 appearance on “Meet the Press” that the state “attracts criminals,” but demanded that Somali residents not be demonized when questioned about the scandal by host Kristen Welker.
