Patriot Brief
- What Happened: Trump officials revealed a former Minnesota linen factory was used to house roughly 400 Medicaid billing businesses.
- Why It Matters: The operation generated nearly $400 million in billing, raising serious questions about oversight and fraud.
- Bottom Line: Federal investigators say taxpayers were fleeced while legitimate care was crowded out.
Trump officials just detonated a bombshell in Minnesota, and it is ugly. Dr. Mehmet Oz and Jim O'Neill revealed that a former linen factory in Minneapolis was transformed into a Medicaid billing mill packed with roughly 400 separate businesses.
Four hundred. In one building.
According to officials, the operation generated about $380 million in Medicaid billing. That works out to nearly a million dollars per business, all charged to taxpayers. The location makes the scheme even more absurd. This was an industrial complex, not a medical campus. Not a clinic. Not a place where families would reasonably bring children for autism care, child services, or transportation support.
“Why did no one in the state figure out this was a concern?” Oz asked, pointing to the obvious red flags. “How is it possible this could come up like an abscess in the heart of Minneapolis and nobody was watching?”
The answer, according to investigators, is simple and damning. They were not looking. And worse, they did not want to know.
Oz described the setting as loud, inhospitable, and completely ill suited for vulnerable patients. An autistic child would not thrive there. A mother would not choose it. Yet somehow, hundreds of Medicaid businesses flourished on paper, pulling in massive reimbursements.
“The question is, how is it possible 400 businesses billing almost $400 million were able to thrive here?” Oz asked. “I think it’s because they weren’t looking.”
That failure had consequences. While money flowed to shell operations, real Minnesotans were denied care. “We’re here to figure out why these folks are being defrauded,” Oz said, “and why the people who live in Minnesota aren’t getting access to the care they deserve because it’s been stolen.”
This is not a paperwork error. It is systemic fraud. And now, under Trump’s watch, the lights are finally on.