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Government Corruption

Ohio gov candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sounds alarm about Medicaid fraud ‐ after 288 companies found registered to same address

2026-05-12

[NY Post] Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy

…age 40, father of three and still married to their mother, born and raised in Cincinnati, the child of Indian immigrants, apparently of the Brahmin class. After getting a BA from Harvard (interning at Goldman Sachs and growing a reputation as a libertarian) and a JD from Yale (where he was classmates with VP JD Vance and hung out with a Jewish debating society, no doubt an interesting contrast to his Jesuit high school), entrepreneurial and financial investments catapulted him solidly into low billionaire status. Then politics caught his interest, as embodied by Donald Trump and his circle, and the dangers of wokeness, and he decided that Ohio needed him more than the federal government…

is calling for a major crackdown on Medicaid fraud in the state after a probe allegedly uncovered millions of dollars in taxpayer funds being funneled to nonexistent home-healthcare companies.

The investigation found 288 separate Ohio home-healthcare companies with the same address — while listed locations for some of the supposed businesses appeared run-down or abandoned with no evidence any services were actually being provided.

"We’re going to have to take a deep, hard look at the way the $40-plus billion in state Medicaid dollars are being spent," Ramaswamy told Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany during an appearance on "Saturday in America."

"I think the right answer is any instance of waste, fraud, abuse... deserve[s] to be prosecuted, and we intend to investigate them aggressively, as well as to prosecute aggressively, to send a deterrent signal that our government is not a piggy bank, the taxpayer is not a piggy bank to be bilked," he said.

The billionaire Republican candidate sounded the alarm after the recent Daily Wire report alleging widespread fraud reminiscent of what investigators found at dozens of purported childcare businesses operating in Minneapolis in recent months.

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