An award-winning investigative journalist. Four major bombshell reports. Billions of dollars potentially exploited by shady individuals. Allegations of a scheme so sprawling that state officials appear incapable of containing it. A presidential priority with his top officials appointed to end the fraud. And a seemingly unconcerned media and tech cabal burying the news.
The details read like the backdrop of a modern action thriller, but they are far from fiction. The reporting comes from Luke Rosiak, an investigative journalist for The Daily Wire and a recipient of the MRC Bulldog Award, who in a series of reports has exposed what could be the most consequential healthcare fraud scandals in Ohio’s history.
Despite the sweeping implications revealed in Rosiak’s reporting, the Big Four News Apps — Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News — have shown little apparent interest in publishing the reports. MRC has published several studies showing how the Big Four News Apps have buried fraud scandals in Minnesota and California. As Rosiak’s investigation reveals, this latest scandal in Ohio continues the whitewash of fraud connected to federally-funded Medicaid programs
MRC’s Findings:
- The Big Four News Apps effectively shut out all of The Daily Wire’s exposés on healthcare fraud in Ohio from their top 20 morning story offerings from May 5 through May 13.
- The stories sound the alarm about a potential scandal involving billions of taxpayer dollars being exploited by shady individuals due to lax Medicaid home health care spending.
- Beyond excluding Rosiak’s investigations, the Big Four News Apps have consistently kept The Daily Wire out of their top 20 morning stories since MRC began tracking the data on Nov. 1, 2025.
- From a journalistic perspective, the Big Four News Apps’ effective censorship of Rosiak’s reporting is difficult to explain, given that the stories were significant enough to prompt intervention from Trump administration fraud elimination task force heads Vice President JD Vance and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson.
“Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo clearly slant their news coverage to the left and never miss an opportunity to help their fellow travelers on the road to radicalism. I can’t see any other reason for the Big Four News Apps to bury these stories of national import,” said MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider. “They make trillions of dollars off of regular Americans and then use their profits to upend the economic and political system that allowed them to succeed in the first place.”
What the Big Four News Apps Buried: Billions in Reported Medicaid Fraud
Collectively reaching over 500 million visits each month, Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News have become the latest gatekeepers of information, effectively determining which stories get national attention and which ones get buried. This time, the nation’s largest news aggregators turned to a familiar playbook in response to The Daily Wire’s bombshell reporting on Medicaid fraud in Ohio—silence.
Rosiak’s first story, published May 4, directly accused the Buckeye State of being a major propeller of waste and fraud, with billions of taxpayer dollars flowing into “personal services” payments that include basic home chores, like cooking, cleaning and companionship.
“What I found was the most blatant waste of federal dollars that I have encountered in my two decades as an investigative reporter,” Rosiak wrote, sounding the alarm about what he described as a lack of oversight from governing officials.
When put into practice, the alleged fraud works like this, according to Rosiak:
“The business model is simple: a 40-year-old Somali immigrant gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mother. The middleman is one of thousands of ‘home health’ firms that have the ‘NPI’ number necessary to bill Medicaid.
“The 40-year-old becomes an ‘employee’ of that company, but has no clients other than his mother. There is no way to verify whether he actually even provided the ‘services’ — unless his own mother is willing to testify against him.”
This practice has occurred thanks to controversial waivers, which open the door for Medicaid to be used beyond its original purposes. In 2024, Ohio spent a billion dollars on these services alone, Rosiak noted.
Rosiak reported that the waivers have proven lucrative for companies operating under questionable circumstances.
In part two, he pointed to seven buildings along East Dublin Granville Road in Columbus, Ohio, owned by Cordoba Real Estate and largely occupied by Medicaid-billing businesses. According to Rosiak, at least 288 companies housed within the Cordoba-owned buildings are registered with Medicaid and have collectively billed the government with more than $250 million between 2018 and 2024.
In part three, Rosiak focused on True Home Healthcare LLC and owner Mamusu Kanu, whom he noted had a lengthy criminal record that included theft, assault and DUI convictions. Rosiak reported that the company received “$100,000 in December 2023 alone off just 15 patients” and billed taxpayers “$936,000” between May 2021 and October 2024.
Rosiak warned that the services provided were “essentially unverifiable.”
In part four, Rosiak examined Omega Healthcare Services, a company tied to Esther Acheampong that allegedly billed Medicaid more than $5 million. Esther’s husband, Robert Acheampong, previously pleaded guilty to felony theft of public money after stealing roughly $19,000 from the IRS and a priest.
Manual or Algorithmic, The Daily Wire Gets Excluded Either Way
MRC researchers reviewed the top 20 morning stories featured on each of the four news aggregators to determine whether they had included Rosiak’s reporting.
Apple News grants publishing access to only a select group of outlets, but it does offer The Daily Wire. It did not feature any of Rosiak’s stories in its top 20 morning offerings and, according to MRC data, has never promoted the outlet when MRC has reviewed the app. Because Apple News editors manually curate stories appearing on the app, the exclusion appears deliberate.
Google News relies largely on algorithmic curation and has broad access to virtually all news outlets, yet it also failed to feature The Daily Wire during the review period.
Meanwhile, Microsoft’s MSN has not distributed content from The Daily Wire despite prominently featuring openly left-wing outlets such as AlterNet, Salon and socialist Jacobin. Yahoo News has similarly excluded The Daily Wire from its offerings while regularly promoting radical, left-wing headlines from outlets like Salon and The New Republic, as repeatedly called out by MRC Free Speech America.
The Daily Wire’s Bombshells: Significant Enough for Federal Investigators But Not for the Big Four News Apps
While the Big Four News Apps declined to feature The Daily Wire’s reporting — and, by extension, its Medicaid investigations — the federal government moved in a markedly different direction, signaling potential decisive action.
Vance, tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the administration’s fraud crackdown, told The Daily Wire earlier this week that he was directing his anti-fraud task force to “look into [Ohio’s Medicaid program] and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate.”
In fact, two days after The Daily Wire published Vance’s response, CNSNews.com Managing Editor Craig Bannister reported that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it would be taking aggressive action nationwide against fraud with a six-month hospice and home health agency enrollment moratoria.
Additionally, Vance announced a Wednesday press conference on the anti-fraud task force on Medicaid, the same program at the center of the outlet’s stories. Vance is set to be joined by Ferguson and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator.
Will the Big Four News Apps remain silent on this new development as well? Time will tell.
Methodology: The Media Research Center analyzed the top 20 stories published by Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News from May 5 through May 13 at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET. Researchers reviewed the dataset to identify whether the news aggregators included The Daily Wire’s reporting on the Ohio-Medicaid fraud scandal.
