Gill Leads New Task Force to Investigate Fraud, Kicks Off Multimillion-Dollar Probe in Ohio

The newest fraud task force has been formed on Capitol Hill and it’s going after all 50 states. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, will lead the investigation, making the first stop Ohio, where a $250 million Medicare scheme was recently uncovered. Gill believes this is just the tip of the iceberg.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced on Tuesday that Gill will chair the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses.

“Americans deserve truth, transparency, and justice,” Gill said in the press release. “They are sick of being defrauded by government institutions and programs that should have been putting them first, not robbing their tax dollars.”

“We’re taking away one of the key arms that the Democrat Party apparatus has used in order to win elections, in order to win over people,” Gill said when he and Comer made the announcement on Fox News Tuesday evening.

Comer has tasked Gill with uncovering institutional abuse of taxpayers’ money. Specifically, the task force will uncover fraud in “government institutions as well as politically connected nonprofits and many universities,” Comer said.

Gill hit the ground running. The task force has begun investigating the $250 million Medicare personal care waiver scheme uncovered in Ohio by Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak. Gill and Comer sent a letter Tuesday to the Ohio Department of Medicaid director, Scott Partika. The letter, which cited Rosiak’s reporting throughout, requested documents and communications with 34 businesses granted Home and Community-Based Services waivers.

“What we found with this Ohio fraud scandal is that we’ve got what we believe to be billions of dollars that have been defrauded from American taxpayers,” Gill said.

Gill explained he believes the money was “laundered through a wide variety of shell companies that were facile, acting as intermediate intermediaries to facilitate payments to organizations that weren’t providing any type of health care.”

Rosiak’s extensive reporting uncovered the HCBS waiver fraud in Ohio. The HCBS, a Medicaid service, was originally intended to assist low-income citizens—usually people with disabilities, senior citizens, or those with chronic illness—by giving them the opportunity to receive at-home care rather than being sent to an institution. Rosiak’s reporting found that this system was flooded with fraud, from family members taking advantage of the program to duplicate LLCs pocketing millions while not providing any care.

The Republican Party is dominating efforts to uncover fraud in every corner of the American bureaucracy. President Donald Trump recently named Vice President JD Vance, from Ohio, to lead a national anti-fraud task force.

Vance announced Tuesday that his task force, in partnership with state and local offices, has withheld $1.4 billion in federal funding from home health and hospice providers nationwide.

According to a press release Gill sent on the matter, the task force will additionally investigate illegal DEI policies, immigration and social welfare program abuse, and foreign actors and dark money groups attempting to suppress Americans’ First Amendment rights.

Republican Oversight Committee members set to join the task force include Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Michael Cloud of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida, and Brian Jack of Georgia. The press release notes that more members will be announced at a later date. The task force has been authorized for six months and will hold hearings on investigations of fraud.