Are Maine's "Group Homes" The Next Medicaid
Scandal To Unravel?
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 2/12/2026 12:26:59 PM
Is Maine the next Minnesota? Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, openly asked that question in a video posted to on Friday (snip) [based on] compliance issues in MaineCare Section 28, i.e. rehabilitative and community support services for children with autism. (snip) However, a Maine Wire investigation has found widespread concern (snip) within another, larger MaineCare program -- Section 21 -- a program that provides residential care in two-person group homes for adults with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disorders.
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Is Maine the next Minnesota? Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, openly asked that question in a video posted to on Friday (snip) [based on] compliance issues in MaineCare Section 28, i.e. rehabilitative and community support services for children with autism. (snip) However, a Maine Wire investigation has found widespread concern (snip) within another, larger MaineCare program -- Section 21 -- a program that provides residential care in two-person group homes for adults with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disorders.
Judge Releases Four Illegal Immigrants
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 14 replies
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 14 replies
A federal judge released four illegal immigrants who were convicted of murder and child sex crimes from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles for the Middle District of Louisiana, an Obama appointee, granted the defendants release from ICE custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. "The ramifications will only be the continued rape, murder, assault, and robbery of more American victims," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Releasing these monsters is inexcusably reckless[.]"
A U.S. Attorney who was appointed by federal judges in New York was quickly fired by the White House. On Wednesday, Donald T. Kinsella, 79, was appointed as U.S. Attorney or the Northern District of New York in a private ceremony, the New York Times reported. Then, Kinsella said, he received an email from a White House official hours later, telling him he was being removed from the post. Kinsella told The Times that he did not yet know whether the White House email carried the force of law (snip.) It is unclear whether there is any recourse for the Northern District judges.
In a blistering House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Justice on Wednesday, Rep. Ted Lieu launched a desperate attack on Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of lying under oath about President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein, only to be utterly dismantled when Bondi flipped the script, unleashing damning statistics on California's sanctuary-fueled crime wave. (snip) The state has released 4,561 criminal illegal aliens onto its streets (snip) [including] 234 sexual predator[s] (snip.)
On the night of Thursday, February 5, Trump's Truth Social account posted a video about election fraud that included a two-second splice featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, portrayed as apes in the style of The Lion King. The outrage machine swung into gear (snip.) But as the aching "anti-racism industry" locomotive groaned (snip) editors at The Guardian (snip) were weighing a story that would have staggering implications for President Trump (snip.) It was, in large part, an attempt to lay the foundations for a fresh impeachment of the 47th President of the United States.
The State Department has concluded that Code Pink and People's Forum are linked to Chinese influence operations, according to a report the agency sent to Congress. (snip) According to the report (snip) China allegedly "spreads propaganda through (snip) organizations like Code Pink, the People's Forum and (snip) the Singham network." The Singham networks is nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink. (snip) [Code Pink] pushes its pro-China position through its "China Is Not Our Enemy" working group, and has hosted pro-China webinars[.]
During a House Ways And Means Committee hearing Tuesday, former U.S. tech mogul Neville Roy Singham was regularly named in the discussion and debate as to how foreign adversaries help fund U.S. agitator groups through what one witness described as "foreign dark money." Singham [is] a U.S. citizen who sold his IT consultancy company for $785 million before moving to Shanghai[.] (snip) "Singham and his wife, a co-founder of CodePink, donated over $20 million to the People's Forum through shell companies and donor-advised funds to hide the original source of the money." (snip) The People's Forum has been one of the loudest groups encouraging and facilitating (snip) anti-ICE demonstrations[.]
FBI Has "Substantiated" Irregularities
In Georgia 2020Vote Counts, Probing If
They Were Intentional 22 replies
In Georgia 2020Vote Counts, Probing If
They Were Intentional 22 replies
The FBI has "substantiated" some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia's largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law, according to a bombshell affidavit unsealed by a federal court on Tuesday. FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans first filed the affidavit last month to establish probable cause for a raid that seized about 700 boxes of Georgia 2020 elections ballots from a storage warehouse [snip.]
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) is calling for federal action against the NFL and NBC following Sunday's explicit Super Bowl halftime show. In a post on X on Monday, Fine argued that the Spanish-language performance violated federal broadcast standards and should result in major penalties. (snip) Fine said Bad Bunny's performance (snip) would not be tolerated if the lyrics were performed in English (snip) "the broadcast would have been pulled down and fines would have been enormous." (snip) The requested action would target the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny. "Lock them up," Fine added.
Walz Administration Gives Potentially
Fraudulent Medicaid Providers Advance
Notice Of Site Visits 7 replies
Fraudulent Medicaid Providers Advance
Notice Of Site Visits 7 replies
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is performing unannounced site visits on more than 5,800 Medicaid providers in the state. The problem? DHS lets providers know roughly when those site visits will occur. (snip) (snip) Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and human Services (HHS) said it was going to withhold funds from those programs (snip.) As part of an effort to get HHS to reverse course, DHS has now unveiled an [onsite audit] initiative called "Minnesota Revalidate 2026." (snip) By telegraphing the site visits, DHS has given potentially fraudulent providers the opportunity to prepare for them.
This is a tale of two federal judges -- one Trump appointee and one Biden appointee -- who separately sentenced two men for their attempted assassinations of a former (and future) president of the United States and a current Supreme Court justice. The Trump judge correctly followed the facts and law, sentencing the would-be Trump assassin to life; the Biden judge dangerously followed her political and ideological agenda, sentencing the would-be Kavanaugh assassin -- because he now pretends he's a woman -- to less than one-third of the recommended sentence.
A ray of hope is emerging in American education. (snip) [H]ope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states in the deep south that long represented America's educational basement. (snip) # Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery. # The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama (snip.) # Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth grade reading levels, and after adjusting for demographics like poverty and race, Mississippi tanks No. 1 while Louisiana ranks No. 2 (snip.)
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Foreign-Born Member Of Congress Threatens
Republicans With Prison When Democrats
Regain Power 29 replies
Republicans With Prison When Democrats
Regain Power 29 replies
Foreign-born Rep. Shri Thanedar openly threatened to prosecute his political enemies this week — a reminder of what Democrats plan to do if they get power back.
During a committee hearing Tuesday, Thanedar — struggling to speak English — threatened to prosecute Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott when President Donald Trump is out of office. (snip)
“You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year,” Thanedar threatened.
“Your agencies have lost the trust of the American people, with millions taking to the streets to protect the illegal actions of your agencies
A horrible tragedy occurred yesterday in Canada when a killer, later identified as a “trans identifying woman,” shot nine people to death and injured 27 others, before turning the gun on himself. The Canadian establishment has been desperate to hide the truth about the shooter, but this was not a secret the establishment could sit on.
The shooting took place at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in tiny Tumbler Ridge, a remote rural community in British Columbia. The killer began by murdering two people at a home, then headed for the secondary school (grades 7-12), where he opened fire. Six people died on school grounds, and one died en route
More than a million dollars will soon be doled out to black residents of Evanston, Illinois, under the city’s reparations program.
Evanston’s Reparations Committee announced last week that 44 people will be getting $25,000 each, for a total of $1.1 million, according to the Chicago Tribune.
All 44 are descendants of individuals who qualify under the city’s program that pays out reparations to black residents who claimed they experienced housing discrimination between 1919 and 1969. The payments are intended to be used for housing expenses, Cynthia Vargas, Evanston’s communications and community engagement manager, said.
Last month, FBI agents executed a search warrant in Union City, Georgia, marking a sharp escalation in scrutiny surrounding Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election. The FBI has now reportedly substantiated major irregularities in vote counting from Fulton County, Georgia, during the 2020 election and is now investigating whether those errors were deliberate violations of federal law.
An affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans last month, which was unsealed Tuesday, lays out five categories of confirmed problems in Fulton County's handling of ballots, raising questions that have simmered for over five years since Trump and his allies raised questions about the election in Georgia and other
On Jan. 30, a New York State jury awarded a 22-year-old woman, Fox Varian, $2 million in damages for her 2019 “gender-affirming” double mastectomy, which she came to deeply regret. She was 16 years old at the time.
This settlement against Varian’s psychologist and plastic surgeon is the first legal judgment imposed upon those performing such mutilations. In court testimony, Varian explained that following the removal of her healthy breasts, “I immediately had a thought that this was wrong, and it couldn’t be true,” adding, “Shame, I felt shame. It’s hard to face that you are disfigured for life.”
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) on Wednesday announced a slew of new anti-ICE actions in the state, including an online portal encouraging state residents to upload cellphone videos and photos of ICE activity.
“ICE is making everyone less safe,” Sherrill posted on X, adding that the measures are necessary “to protect New Jerseyans.”
The governor said her first action was to sign an Executive Order banning ICE from conducting immigration enforcement on state property.
Other blue states and cities have attempted to implement similar laws or policies, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, and New Mexico, limiting ICE access to government-owned property, particularly locations like schools, healthcare facilities, and courthouses. Cities including Chicago, Richmond,
North Carolina Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser said he was taken by surprise when a Democratic sheriff who has long opposed cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not answer a basic question about how the government works. A North Carolina House Oversight Committee hearing spurred on by the recent killing of a young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, in Charlotte, took an unexpected turn when Chesser asked Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, "What branch of government do you operate under?"
McFadden, who is the top law enforcement officer in the county where Zarutska was killed, simply answered, "Mecklenburg County,"
A blockbuster lawsuit alleging California and the City of Los Angeles failed to properly extinguish the Lachman Fire, which led to the Palisades Fire, causing 12 deaths and billions of dollars in damages, is officially allowed to move forward.
The ruling from Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Samantha Jester means the state and city could be found liable for tens of billions of dollars in damages, at a time when both are scrambling to close budget deficits. “The city is already financially distressed,” Alex “Trey” Robertson, the lead attorney on the case representing thousands of fire victims, told The California Post.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Wednesday people would be “shocked” by the names that have been redacted from files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that were publicly released Jan. 30. Her comments come after lawmakers were given the opportunity to review the unredacted files in a reading room at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Judge Releases Four Illegal Immigrants
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 14 replies
Convicted Of Murder, Child Sex Crimes
From ICE Custody 14 replies
A federal judge released four illegal immigrants who were convicted of murder and child sex crimes from the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles for the Middle District of Louisiana, an Obama appointee, granted the defendants release from ICE custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. "The ramifications will only be the continued rape, murder, assault, and robbery of more American victims," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. "Releasing these monsters is inexcusably reckless[.]"
If it's wrong to spend a week celebrating the misery of your opponents, like that of the scores of just-fired Washington Post hacks who are crying like teenage girls learning there are no more "Twilight" movies coming, then I'm incredibly, totally, enthusiastically wrong. The former journos/current drive-thru operators still have not shut up about the WaPo's mass layoffs, and I am taking unmitigated delight in their pain. Their suffering energizes me. Their tears nourish me. Their humiliation fuels my joy. Hey, maybe democracy dies in darkness, but as long as the WaPo dies, I'm good.
I would tell them to learn the code, but that's old and cliché.
Europe warily awaits Rubio at Munich Security
Conference as Trump roils transatlantic ties 14 replies
Conference as Trump roils transatlantic ties 14 replies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a large U.S. delegation this week to the Munich Security Conference where increasingly nervous European leaders are hoping for at least a brief reprieve from President Donald Trump’s often inconsistent policies and threats that have roiled transatlantic relations and the post-World War II international order.
A year after Vice President JD Vance stunned assembled dignitaries at the same venue with a verbal assault on many of America’s closest allies in Europe, accusing them of imperiling Western civilization with left-leaning domestic —
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Concerns include abuse, neglect and sexual and other assaults. In one case, Maine Wire staff encountered a client living in unsanitary conditions in an unfinished house with caregivers "not proficient in the English language."