Thread by @bennyjohnson

🚨THREAD: Columbus, Ohio Daycare Fraud Investigation

We conducted a deep dive into publicly funded child care centers in Columbus. The findings were alarming.

- Strange operating hours
- Blocked windows
- Bottom-tier “Bronze” ratings
- Somali Owners
- Multiple businesses, same building

and much more. It is flooded with pure rot.

READ:

Advanced Learning Center.

A daycare listed as operating only on weekends, in a location that previously housed a smoke shop.

Owner: Abukar Hassan

Receives public funding.

1st Choice Child Care.

- Boarded windows
- Bronze rating
- Visibly deteriorating building
- Receives funding

Owner: Farah Ahmed

You'd think a serious business receiving federal funding would want to make their building look appealing.

A Better Choice Childcare.

- NO windows
- Bronze rating
- Shared building with an insurance company.
- Same pattern as Minnesota.
- Receives funding.

Owner: Fatuma Zahra Abdi

ABC Learning Center.

Shares a building with "ABC Pre-School" and "A+ Kids Learning Center"

Receives funding.

Owner: Nur Jama.

AJ's Learning Center.

Open until Midnight. Strange.

- Flexes a "1-Star Award Winner" sigh on the side of their building. Almost like they don't understand how bad that is.
- Receives funding.

Owners: Ayan Ismail and Keisha Jackson.

All Star Academy Child Care Center.

- Owner is African
- Right next door is an African market.
- Windows all covered.
- Receives funding.

Owners: Prince Bonsu and Fridous Amoako

Almadina LLC.

- Doesn't even sound like a daycare.
- Flexes the "1-Star Award Winner."
- Door just says "INFANTS"

Receives funding.

Owner: Sofia Ibrahim

Babies and Beyond Westland Learning Center.

- Windows Covered
- Receives funding
- Bronze rating

Owner: Abdulkadir Haji-Mohamed

Baby Steps Enrichment Center.

- Building falling apart
- Receives funding

Owner: Remona Muhammad

Big Love Learning Center.

Receives funding.

Owner: Mustafa Salwe

The red flags are everywhere in Columbus, Ohio.

Most of these daycares are visibly off. You can see it with the naked eye. Yet nothing is being done.

Dig a little deeper, and it gets worse.

These centers are receiving heaps of public funding, but it clearly isn’t going toward proper operations:

- Buildings falling apart
- Lowest-tier ratings
-1-star rankings

So where are the millions in taxpayer dollars going?

Investigations are happening in Minnesota, but this needs to become a nationwide effort. Taxpayers deserve accountability.

Keep exposing. Keep pressuring. Make sure this stops.