Just when you thought the Somali welfare fraud story couldn’t get any more ridiculous, allegations have emerged that Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali and Somalia’s UN Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman ran a company called Progressive Health Care Services Inc in Cincinatti, Ohio.
A LinkedIn profile appearing to belong to Osman certainly reflects this. Strangely the profile states that Osman ran the health care company through 2019 and began serving as Somalia’s ambassador to the UN beginning in 2017.
This seems to suggest he ran a health care company in Ohio while also serving as Somalia’s ambassador to the UN.
He’s described as having worked as a supervisor at the Medicaid Unit in the Franklin County Department of Family Services and then worked as the Minister of National Security for Somalia while also running Progressive Health Care Services.
All of this seems to be a massive conflict of interest with a foreign government official involving in Ohio health care.
The Republic of Somaliland (an independent nation at odds with Somalia) tweeted that “Osman entered the U.S. as a refugee in 1986 by claiming asylum. He presented himself as a victim of persecution under Somalia’s Siad Barre regime, specifically alleging that he was from the Isaaq clan—an ethnic group in Somaliland—the same group he said Somalia did not commit genocide against in the UN Security Council meeting on December 29, 2025.”
Foreign Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali’s official profile states that “before entering public sector, His Excellency Hon. Abdisalam Ali established a successful career in the private sector. He founded a successful healthcare enterprise, overseeing a multimillion-dollar annual budget.”
A LinkedIn profile for an Abdisalam Ali, whose picture seems to match that of the Foreign Minister, states that he was a founder of Ritechoice Health Services and before that as the CEO of a medical transport company in Toledo, Ohio. There is no direct confirmation that it’s the same person.
While anyone can create LinkedIn profiles, this does raise some major questions about the interplay between Somali ‘refugees’ in America and the Somali government, and the role of the Somali government in the fraud taking place in America. We’ve already seen close ties between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Somali government officials, but if these allegations are true, it starts to look a whole lot like Somali government officials are running health care organizations in America. And profiting from Americans.
The Somaliland Chronicle (note above) lists a number of Somali government officials with U.S. citizenship including…
Ali Mohamed Omar (Ali Balcad) (State Minister, Foreign Affairs) – Former IBM engineer with an MBA from California State University, Fresno; maintains property in North Carolina and has not renounced U.S. citizenship.
Fardowsa Osman Egal Dhore (Minister of Transport) – Served in public roles in both Somalia and the U.S. for over 15 years.
Somali-American Member of Parliament Ahmed Mohamed Warsame (aka Jama Solob Kayre) lost his U.S. citizenship in 2018 after admitting to immigration fraud related to the Diversity Visa Lottery program, according to documents from the U.S. Department of Justice.
And…
Sadiya Yasin Haji Samatar (Deputy Speaker, Parliament) – Former healthcare administrator in Minnesota; elected Deputy Speaker in 2022.
Elsewhere Sadiya was described as “a single mother from Minnesota with no formal education.”
