The Trump Justice Department already charged three hundred twenty four people nationwide for stealing fourteen billion dollars from Medicaid.
Six people running a Maine home care company just became the Justice Department's newest target.
A federal grand jury says they turned one Medicaid patient into a six hundred thousand dollar payday.
Trump's DOJ Just Charged Six People in Scheme to Bleed MaineCare Dry Off One Patient
The Trump Justice Department already charged three hundred twenty four people nationwide for stealing fourteen billion dollars from Medicaid.
Six people running a Maine home care company just became the Justice Department's newest target.
A federal grand jury says they turned one Medicaid patient into a six hundred thousand dollar payday.
MaineCare Paid for Years While One Patient Never Got the Care
A federal grand jury in Maine indicted six people and the company Community Home Healthcare LLC on healthcare fraud conspiracy charges.
Prosecutors say Noora Abd, Faysal Kalayaf Manahe, Adel Al Rashid, Sura Almohammed, Ether Alyaseen, and Mohammed Alkhalaf billed MaineCare for personal care services starting in 2020.
The services were supposedly provided to a single client.
According to the indictment, they were never provided at all.
The scheme allegedly pulled in more than $600,000 in taxpayer money before Homeland Security Investigations caught it.
Abd and Manahe face an additional charge of obstructing the investigation.
Alkhalaf is charged with lying to federal agents on top of the fraud count.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Benson put it bluntly. Healthcare fraud "costs all of us," and anyone stealing from the system will get "shut down."
Homeland Security's Jeffrey Grimming said the group fabricated services and pocketed public funds that should have gone to real patient care.
They are all facing up to ten years in prison on the fraud conspiracy count alone – and they weren’t happy about being filmed leaving their arraignment.
The Maine GOP Caucus Already Called This the Tip of the Iceberg
The Maine House Republican caucus did not wait for cameras to say they told everyone so.
They say they have pushed for years to get MaineCare fraud investigated and prosecuted, and this indictment proved the point.
The caucus called the six arrests "only the tip of the iceberg" and demanded federal investigators keep digging.
That complaint did not start this week. Republican lawmakers were already going public with MaineCare fraud concerns in December 2025.
By August 2026, after months of GOP pressure, state health officials finally released details on their fraud enforcement efforts.
It took federal agents from Homeland Security, not Augusta, to actually charge anyone with a crime.
A Ten Billion Dollar Scheme Already Showed Federal Agents How This Works
This is not the first time federal agents have found a health care company treating Medicaid like an open checkbook.
Operation Gold Rush, a separate Justice Department case, already produced the largest health care fraud charge in department history. That case alleges $10.6 billion in losses.
A separate federal effort, the New England Strike Force, has charged six other defendants across New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine in cases totaling more than $14 million in fraud.
Across the country, the Justice Department's 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown charged 324 people and uncovered more than $14.6 billion in alleged fraud.
The mechanism repeats everywhere. Fabricate services for real or invented patients, bill Medicaid like clockwork, and count on a state bureaucracy too slow to check.
In Maine, prosecutors say it allegedly took six years and one patient to pull in $600,000.
Janet Mills Ran MaineCare While Republicans Kept Raising the Alarm
Janet Mills has run Maine's government through all six years that MaineCare allegedly bled money to a single phantom patient.
Two of the six defendants, Abd and Manahe, did not just allegedly steal the money. Prosecutors say they also tried to obstruct the investigation once Homeland Security started asking questions.
That is not a bookkeeping mistake. That is someone trying to keep a six-year scheme running after federal agents showed up.
Every dollar MaineCare pays to a fraudster is a dollar that never reaches a real disabled Mainer waiting for a home health aide.
Six hundred thousand dollars could have covered years of actual in-home care for families stuck on waiting lists across the state. Instead it went to six people and a client the indictment says barely received anything at all.
That is the real cost of letting Augusta move slower than the fraudsters did.
Six people are now facing up to ten years in federal prison for emptying out help that should have gone to someone who needed a wheelchair ramp, a home aide, or basic daily care.
Federal agents did the job Augusta would not.
Sources:
- Chris Wade, "US Department of Justice Charges 6 in Maine for Healthcare Fraud," The Center Square, October 27, 2026.
- U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine, "New England Strike Force Joins Nationwide Crackdown on Health Care Fraud," Department of Justice, 2026.
- WABI, "State Republicans Voice Concerns Regarding Fraud in Maine," WABI, December 30, 2025.
- Maine Morning Star, "After Months of GOP Criticism, Maine Shares Details of Medicaid Fraud Enforcement," Maine Morning Star, August 6, 2026.
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