Ohio Medicaid fraud allegations are based on a fraud's fraudulent work
"Cuckoo for coco puffs" remarked one longtime Statehouse lobbyist subjected to Medicaid fraud testimony from the Daily Wire's propagandist Luke Rosiak.
The notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy is in trouble.
He owes his gubernatorial candidacy to President Donald Trump, who is becoming increasingly unpopular every day in Ohio, with the true effects of the disastrous foray into Iran still to come.
On top of being a uniquely unliked individual, Ramaswamy’s party has controlled Ohio unilaterally for the past 15 years
Ramaswamy can no longer run as a political outsider because he has co-opted every level of the Republican Party’s traditional campaign apparatus, which ordained him with an historically early endorsement in a sweaty basement in May 2025.
Even his running mate, Senate President Rob McColley—is an establishment hack in every sense of the phrase.
On Tuesday morning at the Westin Hotel in downtown Columbus, we got a glimpse at how Ramaswamy and his enablers intend to differentiate him from the party that caused all the problems he’s promising to fix.
The answer is apparently throwing Governor Mike DeWine and soon-to-be-former Attorney General Dave Yost under the proverbial bus by alleging that shadowy immigrants committed billions of dollars of Medicaid fraud under their watch.
A report from a self-described “investigative journalist” at the collapsing right-wing propaganda outlet The Daily Wire is the basis for the hysteria.
Luke Rosiak kicked off Ramaswamy’s propaganda summit:
The Rooster spoke to two reporters who covered the event. One described it as “stupid” and the other described it as “the dumbest thing they’ve covered in their career.”
With Rosiak involved, it’s easy to see why. His “explosive report,” which was published to X, called unnamed scammers “welfare queens” and derisively referred to Medicaid as “the poverty program” numerous times.
But Rosiak is the biggest welfare queen of all, cashing a check from the billionaire-funded Daily Wire to peddle misinformation aimed at agitating hog voters at the expense of America’s most vulnerable citizens.
Video: Rosiak and The Daily Wire crew flea from questioning in a Cybertruck.
Like the time in 2016, when Roziak peddled debunked conspiracy theories about Imran Awan, a former Pakistani IT staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Though Awan pled guilty in 2018 to lying on a bank loan application, a judge sentenced him to time served, and prosecutors took the rare step of mentioning that Awan had committed no crime connected to his former government job.
From CNN in Jan. 2020:
While he was never charged with a crime connected to his government work, conservative media outlets speculated about his possible connections to the hack of the DNC in the 2016 election in a conspiracy theory that was promoted by President Donald Trump on Twitter.
In a rare move, prosecutors debunked the conspiracy theories surrounding him, writing in a plea agreement that they had “found no evidence [Awan] illegally removed House data from the House network or from House Members’ offices, stole the House Democratic Caucus Server, stole or destroyed House information technology equipment, or improperly accessed or transferred government information” after a “thorough investigation” that included interviewing 40 witnesses and taking custody of the House Democratic Caucus server.
None of that stopped Rosiak from disparaging Awan in a book, prompting Awan to sue him and The Daily Caller for defamation. The case was later settled after a judge refused to dismiss the suit on anti-SLAPP grounds.
That didn’t change Rosiak’s enthusiasm for right-wing hysteria.
Two years later, in 2022, he parachuted into Virginia with explosive allegations that also turned out not to be true by any metric.
From The Trans Data Library in 2024 (brackets mine):
In October, 2022, Rosiak published an article in the Daily Wire detailing the unverified accusations of the father of a Loudoun County, VA high schooler. The father, who had had aggressive confrontations with school officials, claimed his daughter’s rape was being covered up by the school, and that the perpetrator was a boy wearing a skirt who had taken advantage of a policy allowing transgender youth to use bathrooms in accordance with their gender to assault his daughter in a girls bathroom.
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According to subsequent reporting, including a thorough New York Times investigation published in 2023, a rape occurred in Loudoun, as did a second sexual assault of a second girl at the hands of the same boy another Loudoun County school.
However, the boy never identified as transgender, did not gain access to the bathroom by being or pretending to be transgender, and there was no evidence of a cover up by school officials who were attempting to pass a policy protecting transgender youth.
With dullards like Rosiak in its employ, it’s easy to understand why Ben Shapiro and The Daily Caller are currently hemorrhaging money and facing stiff layoffs.
Because House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) was right to label Rosiak’s latest missive—posted on X, of all places—a “jaw-dropping report.”
It’s jaw-droppingly dumb, as evidenced by obviously fabricated quotes like this one:
When we asked one what home health care companies did, one man threatened: “Journalists? Who cares? Do you guys pay my bills? I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.”
If Rosiak didn’t have a history of inserting right-wing hysteria into his reporting, it might be possible to look past the obvious question here, like why didn’t he get the name of the man, let alone his company, that gave such a mystifying quote to a reporter?
Because what’s more likely? That a right-wing propagandist has uncovered a national scandal that the Ohio Republican junta let fester under their noses for the past 15 years, or that it’s just another tired trick from an increasingly irrelevant man who was never talented enough to care about the truth?
Because the Department of Health and Human Services’ Final Report on Oversight of Medicaid Personal Care Services from April 2026, which you can download below, seems to indicate that Rosiak’s math is off by about $5,998,965,487:
These repeated bad-faith efforts targeting vulnerable citizens should be enough to have Rosiak sequestered from polite society when The Daily Wire inevitably lays him off in the near future.
But in Ohio, it makes him the star witness in the Ohio House Medicaid Committee, chaired by State Rep. Jenifer Gross, a nurse practitioner who once claimed her college-aged son won’t sleep with vaccinated women.
