The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) suspended MaineCare payments to the allegedly fraudulent Maine Connect Care just days after The Maine Wire published an article detailing its ties to a money transfer station and other allegedly fraudulent home health care billers.
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A Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) request last week revealed that the DHHS suspended payments to Maine Connect Care on January 30, shortly after The Maine Wire visited its office at 203 Anderson Street in Portland, and just eight days after the publication of an article highlighting its ties to a money transfer station.
The notice of suspension accuses Maine Connect Care of billing for services not rendered, billing for services while unlicensed, and billing for services provided by an individual excluded from the MaineCare program.
The notice required the immediate suspension of all MaineCare payments to the business and was only issued following a careful review of the allegations made against it.
The notice does not provide specific details on the allegations, as the investigation remained ongoing at the time it was issued.
The DHHS notified the business that the allegations may have stemmed from a fraud hotline complaint, data mining, patterns identified through an audit, a civil false claims case, or a law enforcement investigation, among other possible sources.
Any attempts by Maine Connect Care to circumvent the suspension will result in immediate termination from MaineCare rather than the temporary suspension.
The suspension will be lifted if investigators believe that there is insufficient evidence of fraud or when civil and criminal proceedings related to the alleged fraud are concluded.
Records obtained by The Maine Wire do not show whether Maine Connect Care appealed the decision or the current status of the investigation into its alleged fraud.
At 203 Anderson Street, Maine Connect Care shared a building with four other New Mainer-operated home health care businesses and a Dahabshiil money transfer station. Dahabshiil is the largest money transfer business in Africa and was founded in Somalia, though it is currently based in the United Arab Emirates.
Maine Connect Care, operated by Ahdaf Shamkhi, billed MaineCare a massive $7,243,676 from 2021 to 2025.
According to business records, Maine Connect Care is listed as being no longer a business in good standing after failing to file its annual report in June.
The business no longer appears in Maine licensing records as a health care provider, suggesting that the fraud investigation has not had a favorable result for Shamkhi and his business.
Adaffy Shamkhip didn’t he run for Senator in the Democratic primary.
That’s because liberals are in charge. Few people can’t wake up and go vote. There’s more of them in our state now than there is us. Because they all come from another country. You know, I would have been blow Augusta, go vote. We’re being destroyed.
We still have hope with Trump in office. And the main wire, thank you guys
SEND THEM BACK !
Every
Single
One
I’d like to see the people that overlook the money going to these businesses,oh wait, liberals in charge,there is no one !!!sssooo who’s going to jail for wasting taxpayers money 🤑💰
Suspended? Naw.
“We The People” will LET them pay it back in Cougarades. No Zimbabbah lewy bucks…no sir eeee.
And the Mills administration and DHHS Commissioner Sara Gagné-Holmes built Maine’s elder and disability supports infrastructure on these fraudulent businesses.
Now that the fraudsters are being caught, they’re just skipping town. Who is stepping in to care for all the disabled people in Section 21 homes when the provider scarpers? Many of these people are elderly or otherwise lost all “natural supports.” All they have is a state-appointed guardian, gods help them.
We are going to have so many homeless elderly & disabled people. 😞
I watched The Robinson Report video of the Lewiston landlord giving Jon Fetherston a hard time on the street .
He rents “ office “ spaces to a bunch of the Somali scammers .
It’s a good thing for him I wasn’t anywhere near them that day or I’d have slapped that bitch stupid .
What a complete A hole …..
PLEASE ……Send him on the plane with the deportees.
I agree I would have closed my fist wishing I had a roll of quarters just to give him the full respect he deserved.
He’s just another liberal scumbag.
What about the business in Biddeford. Who owns them? are they getting any public funding?
and who is on control of the Maine Government? THE DEMOCRATES!!! Vote them out at every level.
WHO THINKS SHAMKI HAS FLED THE COUNTRY AND IS SET FOR LIFE? PROBABLY HAS A PHOTO OF JANET MILLS ONTHE WALL FOR A GOOD LAUGH EVERY DAY!
Must of been a really bad day in Augusta after that decision