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What do a demolished building, a dental office, and an immigrant hub have in common?

In Michigan, they’re all billing Medicaid, and you’re paying for it.

I went chasing a lead, all I found was the demo team eating lunch.

That crew sent me chasing a story that found $118M billed by 21 dissolved businesses across the state.

The demolition site became the blueprint I needed to follow the money. 🧵🇺🇸

This is the second article in the Fraud Watch series, in partnership with Restoration News.

Something Stinks in Michigan

This, is Grace Points Inc.

Owned by one Oghenereke Lisa Omauvezi.

Grace Points billed 2.4M in autism “community rehabilitation” to Medicaid and got away with it.

But the real question is how she managed to do it at all.

Grace Points was dissolved as an entity in Michigan before it started billing over $200K a month.

Oghenereke Lisa Omauvezi did a good job of trying to cover her tracks, changing names changing the spelling of her name, changing the name of multiple shell entities.

All of it designed to obfuscate, and because no one went looking, it continued.

And outside of the obvious:

Grace Points Inc was also billing for only 14 beneficiaries.

Fourteen––$2.42 million. 

That works out to roughly $173,000 per person over 33 months.

9 hours of “community habilitation” per beneficiary per day, every single day, for 33 straight months.

At this place:

To understand how that happens, the entire network had to be dissected, taken apart piece by piece to see how the scheme worked.

And that’s where things got interesting. Read the full story:
restoration-news.com/something-stin…