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Who Funds That?: “Who Funds That?” EP5: Ohio’s Medicaid Millions

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Seven buildings with 288 companies. Empty offices with unopened government notices in the mail slots. Convicted fraudsters vaguely warning that they know who journalists’ families are. It’s all real, and it’s all been uncovered in Columbus, Ohio, where millions of taxpayer dollars are disappearing into questionable home healthcare businesses, and the state government and the […]

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Michael Watson, joined by Sarah Lee, and this is Capital Research Center's

0:16.4

Who Funds That Podcast?

0:18.5

Seven buildings with 288 companies, Empty offices with unopened government

0:23.6

notices in the mail slide. Convicted fraudsters vaguely warning that they know who journalists' families are.

0:30.6

It's all real and it's all been uncovered in Columbus, Ohio, where millions of taxpayer dollars

0:35.7

are disappearing into questionable home health care

0:38.4

businesses, and the state government and the businesses have few answers to many, many questions.

0:45.2

Joining us to discuss their Ohio Medicaid investigation are Luke Rossiak, an investigative

0:50.0

reporter for the Daily Wire, and Capital Research Center's investigative researcher, Parker Thayer.

0:55.1

Parker, happy to have you. Luke, we had you on the old podcast, but for new listeners,

0:59.5

can you tell us a little bit about your background and work for the Daily Wire?

1:02.7

Sure. I'm an investigative reporter with the Daily Wire. I have a background in conservative media,

1:10.5

quite a few different publications, as well as some other watchdog groups.

1:16.4

A lot of my work has involved computers and databases.

1:20.8

And most importantly, he's their government waste reporter, which we found a little bit of.

1:27.9

That is, that brings me nicely to my next question.

1:32.6

What made you look at Ohio for suspicious Medicaid spending?

1:37.3

Well, it was, um, it was a lot of things.

1:42.7

I'll let Luke get into this because he, he's the, you know, he knows all of the details of this story forward and backwards.

1:51.2

Sorry, Parker.

1:52.0

Let's hear it from you.

1:52.8

I mean, Parker was the one that basically drew my attention to Ohio.

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