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We finally have records from last year's election security blunders: 250 absentee ballots in an Amazon package, 500 absentee envelopes sent to a Soros-funded NGO in Maryland.
This picture shows the address where Maine's absentee ballot envelopes were sent. The investigation closed without determining why/how ballots were sent here.
Days after a photo op with the former Finance Minister of Jubaland, Somalia, Hannah Pingree is dropping Facebook posts mimicking the Somali flag.
Poor little welfare scammers and their cronies didn’t like having their pictures taken after their arraignment for health care fraud conspiracy.
One man charged the @TheMaineWire videographer, then another assaulted him.
Fraud is a predicate for denaturalization.
@HSI_HQ @USAO_ME @DHSgov
"New Mainers" getting belligerent at the court house after they are arraigned. A $50 million welfare fraud scheme crashes and burns.
USAID is gone, but Medicaid welfare accomplishes the same goals: funneling money into leftist NGOs to help rig elections.
In this podcast, @tomshattuck and I explain how Gateway Community Services, a migrant agency busted for fraud, was used by Maine Democrats and the Mills Administration to fund GOTV aimed at non-English-speaking migrants in 2022 and 2024.
This year, the same people are busing illiterate Somalis to the polls in Lewiston.
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Why the fuck is this guy finding fraud but the FBI and cross eyes doesn't fuck all
six Iraqi refugees lugged for running a $50M welfare fraud scheme... Pulse Marketing's news blog runs with "Judge frees all 6 defendants..."
were they expecting the judge to summarily execute them?
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SHENNA SHENANIGANS: Maine Wire's @Seamus_Othot joined @CarlHigbie to break down how nearly 500 Maine absentee ballot envelopes ended up at a Soros-funded non-profit in Maryland:
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Independent Oxford sheriff’s candidate Justin Brown is facing potentially serious disciplinary action after a lengthy history of misconduct including repeated false statements.
Brown’s lawyer Michael Cunniff denied the accusations of misconduct made against his client in statements provided to The Maine Wire and claimed that they were made in retaliation for his cooperation in an investigation.
Full story in the replies below.
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The Westbrook Police Department arrested Christhian Hernandez Vega after discovering that he had allegedly been on the run for eight years from a rape charge.
At approximately 3:30 a.m., Westbrook officers spotted people reportedly engaging in unspecified suspicious activity near an ATM on Main Street.
While investigating, police discovered that one of the individuals involved (Vega) was wanted on a New York City arrest warrant.
Jail records identify Vega as a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, and show that he had not yet been extradited as of Wednesday morning.
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Once again, the legacy media is failing Mainers and creating a distorted sense of reality.
@MaineWireJon reacts to how the Bangor Daily News reported on the fraud indictment yesterday:
NEW: The company indicted for welfare fraud conspiracy yesterday (CHHC) took a $436.3k PPP loan in April 2020.
Below, I’ve plotted out the Medicaid agencies monthly income (orange) and the number of “patients” that they claim (green). As you can see, this company did not suffer any loss of business, patients or income.
PPP loan fraud was not among the charges included in the indictment unsealed yesterday by the U.S. Attorney for Maine.
The fraudsters behind Community Home Health Care pocketed nearly $50 million since 2018, including for services never provided, and then lied to FBI investigators and attempted to convince others to lie.
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Noora Abd bought these condos last year.
$2.7 million.
Cash.
She still owns them
Troy Jackson, who purports to be a fifth generation logger, stacks chords of wood — not cords.
Does he stack his chords in Norwich?
Community Home Health Care -- the ~$50M welfare fraud indicted today -- billed Medicaid at ABSURD rates.
Maine DHHS paid CHHC $47,986,866 from 2019 through 2025. Annual payments grew from $2.97 million to $10.14 million.
CHHS collected more money for home health care (T1019) than *every other home health agency in Maine.* Its monthly personal-care population in the available 2024 records averaged about 150 people. For personal care alone, CHHC received an average of:
• $4,945 per beneficiary per month in 2023.
• $5,152 per beneficiary per month in 2024.
• $6,136 per beneficiary in its highest month, August 2024.
The 2024 average works out to roughly $61,818 for 12 months of care.
Other Maine providers’ median payments were approximately $2,773 per beneficiary-month in 2023 and $2,893 in 2024. CHHC was about 78% higher in both years. (This calculation is skewed because it includes all the other bogus agencies billing similarly.)
Based on the reimbursement rates established by the MaineCare Benefits Manual, CHHC’s payments in 2023 and 2024 were about 95% of what it would cost to provide 40 hours of personal care every week to every beneficiary.
Roughly 38 hours a week, per person, on average.
For 2024, the arithmetic is $8.47 million in personal-care payments against an estimated $8.92 million benchmark for 40-hour weeks. In other words, $8.92M was the theoretical maximum amount of care they could bill for based on the physics of time and the benefits manual -- and they billed $8.47M.
CHHC also received a $436,300 PPP loan in 2020, reporting 126 jobs. It was forgiven in 2021.
No sane person could look at Noora Abd's billing and conclude that this business was on the level.
Read more here: themainewire.com/2026/10/mai…
Noora Abd, indicted today for running a $50M fraud conspiracy, is a real estate investor! She bought six condos in Hallowell last year for $2.7M.
The Way Life Should Be ... Paying rent to foreign fraudsters who scammed their way to a fortune and then bought up all the housing in your town.
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Here's what the last US Attorney for Maine was worried about while MaineCare was being systematically defrauded:
We just got the first major welfare fraud indictment in Maine.
@SteveRob with the latest: