Family Of Genocidal Somali Dictator Linked To $1.8M Medicare-Funded Ohio Business
Hargeisa still remembers the bombs. Columbus cut the Medicare checks.
Summary
- The Daily Caller, citing the New York Post, reports Vanguard Home Health Care, run by Deka Mohamed Siad, 69, and her late husband, former ambassador Abdikarim Ali Omar, drew $1.8 million in Ohio Medicare funds. The firm filed paperwork, looked legitimate, and closed after Omar's death in 2021. Deka is a daughter of Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali dictator toppled in 1991.
- Brother Ayanle Mohamed Siad, 61, settled near Columbus after the regime fell. Oxford researcher Mohamed Haji Ingiriis told the Post Ayanle ran daily government affairs from Villa Somalia after his father was hurt in a car crash and could hire and fire at will. He now owns a translation firm, has a tie to a Columbus coffee shop, and launched a 2004 nonprofit. He has not publicly condemned his father.
- Barre seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled 21 years. The Center for Justice and Accountability says his forces turned on the Isaaq in the north from 1987 to 1989, leveled about 70 percent of Hargeisa, killed more than 5,000 civilians, and drove nearly half a million people out.
- A 2012 U.S. federal court found former Somali defense minister Mohamed Ali Samantar liable and ordered $21 million. Activist Suleiman Bolaleh wants the same scrutiny of proceeds the family may have inherited. Ali-Guban Mohamed, 64, whose relatives were killed by Barre's forces, told the Post he was stunned to see the son free in a local mosque among a Somali community of about 70,000.
Commentary
A Columbus dad still smells cafeteria bleach on a night shift and knows a Medicare dollar is supposed to buy a neighbor a nurse, not a villa son's second start. He did not pay the payroll tax so a dictator's household could cash an Ohio claim.
$1.8 million. Villa Somalia. 70 percent of Hargeisa. $21 million already ordered on a defense minister. The honest household already paid the premium. The checks still cleared.
Look every working father who still opens an Explanation of Benefits in the eye and answer this: if a court already billed a Barre minister $21 million, who still owns the next Medicare dollar in that county?
Comments
Vanguard Home Health. $1.8 million. Closed 2021. Keep that order.
I stood a line so a premium bought a nurse. A villa household is not a hardship case.
Deka. Ayanle. Samantar $21 million. Print the three.
Allied treasuries still treat a dictator's proceeds as a forfeiture file, not a startup.
Hargeisa 70 percent. 5,000-plus civilians. Bolaleh call for a probe. File the three.
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next Medicare dollar on a patient, not a villa name.
A dictator's daughter on a home-health ledger is not a coincidence. It is a warning the street already paid.
A cleared Ohio claim is a second border around a war-crimes file. The first judgment should have been enough.
The Caller printed $1.8 million, Villa Somalia, and the 2012 order. Argue those nouns.
Open the books. Follow the proceeds. A Medicare number is not a second passport.
