This is part four of “Medicaid Millions,” a Daily Wire series exposing billions of dollars in dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own relatives.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Medicaid has paid more than $5 million to a company that says it sends helpers to the homes of the elderly – even though the company’s president had a daycare shut down because of signs it was billing for nonexistent children, and her husband has a felony conviction for billing the government for nonexistent elder services.
The tale raises questions about what, if any, effort the government makes to ensure it isn’t being tricked by Medicaid providers who bill the government vast sums.
Omega Healthcare Services is based in a black, windowless building in Columbus, a city that boasts one of the largest African immigrant populations in the country and also gets the bulk of the state’s Medicaid dollars. When The Daily Wire visited its office during business hours, the door was locked and no one was there.
Yet Omega was certified to begin receiving Medicaid dollars for “home health” in November 2020. According to Ohio spending records, the state paid the firm $5.7 million beginning in June 2020 and as recently as this month.
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Who runs this lucrative home health business? Business records show it’s registered to Esther Acheampong, who a decade ago had a daycare in Wisconsin called Kids Campus CDC shut down because it was “unable to provide investigators with requested attendance records.”
Sharing the same office is an accounting firm called Scabeda registered to Esther and her husband, Robert Acheampong.
In 2005, Robert Acheampong pleaded guilty to felony theft of public money in federal court, after stealing $19,000 from the IRS and a priest in a scheme that mirrors what fraudulent home health companies are known to do.
He falsely claimed to represent a “community development” nonprofit in order to seek a federal grant for “tax counseling for the elderly.” He falsely claimed that 25 volunteers filed taxes for 1,000 elderly people, and billed the government for $16,000 in expenses.
He lost his accounting license and received four months house arrest and three years of probation. His probation was extended to 2010 after he incurred another felony conviction, for failing to support his own children.
The feds put a $15,000 lien against him, but he simply never paid it – even as his wife, an immigrant from Ghana, found an extraordinarily successful business venture in billing the government for visits to the elderly.
In December 2024, the government gave up on trying to collect what it was owed, saying the “collection period for the criminal monetary penalties… has expired.” Shortly prior, records show the Acheampongs bought an upscale home in the tony suburb of Lewis Center.
In April 2025, Ohio reinstated his accounting license. Scabeda’s sign advertises advice on “advanced taxation” and boasts of securing “$25 MILLION IN LOANS.” Scabeda itself received $25,000 in forgivable COVID loans.
Robert Acheampong’s multiple felonies were just one of a slew of red flags that the Ohio Department of Medicaid could have caught when it approved Omega Healthcare Services to operate in the “home health” field, a program known to be highly vulnerable to fraud.
Omega’s LLC paperwork filed in May 2020 didn’t list Robert’s name; it listed Esther and a white American teenager who lived more than two hours away.
Public records show the teen is the son of Paul G. A. Kasapis, who had just gotten out of federal prison for tax fraud and money laundering convictions tied to an illegal casino he was running out of a bowling alley. The Omega paperwork was filed three days after the teen turned 18. Scabeda’s LLC paperwork was updated in the teen’s name on the same day.
The Ohio Department of Medicaid didn’t seem to find it odd that a teenager from Canton was teaming up with a woman from Ghana on a Medicaid business. The Daily Wire did. When we reached out, we got part of the story from his mother.
Debbie Kasapis said Robert Acheampong was the accountant, apparently working despite his revoked license, who filed the fraudulent tax returns concealing millions of dollars for her now ex-husband.
After Paul was released from prison, she found that they were still working together.
“Something came to the bowling alley for a trucking company, and it had Paul’s address and a Columbus phone number,” she explained. “I dialed the phone number… it came up Robert Acheampong.”
She was shocked. Worse, they were using her son’s name: “I can guarantee you, if my kid’s name is on it, my kid doesn’t know… I don’t think my son is quite aware of how much his dad is using his name,” Debbie said, adding that she was surprised he was able to get government money.
“It just seems like nobody’s minding the store,” she said of government oversight.
Paul Kasapis owes more than $500,000 in restitution to the IRS, but Debbie suspects he’s hiding money. Some of those assets might be in Robert’s name.
On April 4, 2025, the Kasapises’ divorce was finalized. The next day, a company called Genesis Training Center LLC was created. The articles of incorporation were signed only by Robert and Esther Acheampong. But the paperwork was sent to Paul Kasapis’s bowling alley.
In March 2020, a company called Bullet Logistics was created in the name of the then-17-year old son. After the divorce was finalized, it was amended to list the elder Kasapis. Scabeda Group’s online account was used to make that change.
In September 2021, Robert and Esther created Omega 1 Logistics Inc. Two years later, Kasapis, the convicted money launderer, created Omega 1 Log LLC, a name that most people would assume was the same company simply abbreviated, but which was actually a different legal entity.
Asked about the near identical name of Acheampong’s trucking company, the elder Kasapis said, “Why is that weird?” He told The Daily Wire he hired Acheampong to create the bowling alley LLC, but his son was “not at all” involved in any businesses, and he didn’t know why his name appeared.
Esther Acheampong declined to comment. Robert Acheampong did not answer repeated phone calls.
The Acheampongs are tied to several businesses, including a mortgage bank called the Omega Mortgage Banc Corporation, which listed their own then-17-year-old son as a partner.
Their business filings regularly involve individuals billing the government large amounts of money. In October 2020, Robert was named as the sole incorporator of Alert Security Agency, but the company was created using a Secretary of State account linked to an address belonging to Dr. Yaw Ayesu-Offei, who founded numerous Medicaid companies, including one that billed $4.7 million.
Scabeda itself was originally created using the online account of Al Hassan Mansaray, the founder of the High Tech Learning Center, Inc. The learning center’s listed address is an apartment, and its website consisted of stock photos, but it got $30,000 in COVID money.
Cat and mouse
Ohio spent $1 billion on home health in 2024, paid overwhelmingly with federal money. How many of the 3,700 home health LLCs incorporated in Ohio have similar stories to the Acheampongs?
To illustrate how common it has become for people in some communities to bill the government for such work, the Acheampong home health care business is not even the only multi-million dollar business within its office building. The windowless black box – a different one than the buildings mentioned in a previous installment of this series – is full of companies that bill the government.
Down the hall is All Nation Home Health Care, which collected $7.5 million since 2018. Across the corridor is Confidential Health Services LLC, which fittingly had its windows blacked out. Ohio state records report paying it $1.8 million, and it got $280,000 in COVID money.
More than 15% of all “home health” spending in Ohio takes place in four square miles around northeast Columbus, according to the state auditor. The city houses one of the largest African immigrant communities in the country, many based in the same neighborhood where home health has become so prevalent.
As part of this investigative series on Medicaid spending, The Daily Wire reviewed scores of companies in Columbus and found them often connected to people with red flags in their background that raise questions about waste, fraud, and abuse in the massive government program.
Ohio’s Republican governor Mike DeWine has said that “Ohio has extensive oversight mechanisms in place” to root out fraud and abuse.
