Here’s the summary:
- Former employees allege Gateway Community Services systematically overbilled MaineCare (Medicaid) for services never provided, with falsified records and forged client signatures.
- Despite prior audit findings that showed nearly $1M worth of erroneous billing by Gateway from 2015-2017, the Mills Administration continued awarding no-bid contracts to Gateway, totaling $3.3M since 2022, in addition to the continued flow of MaineCare money.
- At the same time, Gateway leaders helped create the Community Organizing Alliance (COA) — a group dedicated to voter turnout in migrant communities aligned with Democratic Party goals.
Here’s the full story:
The migrant agency accused of running a five-year MaineCare fraud has extensive ties to Maine Democrats, ties that have proven mutually beneficial for Gateway Community Services and Gov. Janet Mills.
Gateway Community Services, founded in 2014 by Somali-American refugee Abdullahi Ali, came under fire last week thanks to whistleblower allegations reported exclusively by The Robinson Report that detailed an elaborate effort to overbill Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare.
At the same time the alleged fraud was happening, the Mills Administration handed lucrative contracts to Ali’s company and related nonprofit, while Ali and a former employee were creating the Community Organizing Alliance (COA) to boost voting for Democrats in migrant neighborhoods.
Those contracts flowed from the Mills Administration to Gateway Community Services despite a 2018 audit that found Gateway had previously overbilled MaineCare from 2015 to 2017 for close to $1 million…
This appears to be the same sort of scam which has plagued Minnesota, California and elsewhere. Taxpayer money is funneled into a bogus ‘non-profit care’ organization, which then pockets the money or uses it for purposes not authorized but that benefit the Democrats who funneled the money in the first place. ABN
American Buddhist Net 