Office buildings across Maine are quietly being transformed into hubs for so-called home health care companies—many of which appear to exist largely on paper. A NewsNation investigation has uncovered alarming patterns that echo massive fraud schemes previously exposed in Minnesota, leaving Maine taxpayers potentially on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars while businesses vanish without consequence.
In Portland, one office building has become a striking example of the trend. According to the building’s owner, roughly half of the tenants are home health care companies connected to Somali operators. Yet despite the number of listed businesses, the offices are eerily empty.
“One guy I see coming and going, and the rest of them, I never see them, only when they pay their rent, if I’m here when they pay their rent,” said building owner Ron Nevins. “They’re never here. Nobody’s over here, and then all of a sudden, if it was one or two or three or four, I’d be like, ‘OK.’ But when there’s 10, I’ve had as many as 12 or 13 probably before. You just wonder, what’s up with this health care thing? Why are so many people doing it all from foreign lands?”
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