Yes, you read that correctly. A government official IN Liberia owns multiple assisted living facilities in Minnesota and serves as the director for three of them.

In 2024, at a ceremony in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, an emcee praised the business acumen of Sekou Dukuly, the newly installed director of the West African nation’s government-owned port system.

Dukuly had been “delivering multimillion-dollar profit increases everywhere he worked,” the emcee said.

Dukuly didn’t make his money in international shipping, however. He cashed in on Minnesota’s booming group home industry.

Minnesota companies linked to Dukuly collected at least $36 million in taxpayer funds over the past 10 years, according to Minnesota Open Checkbook, a state website that provides transparency in government spending. Dukuly has had a hand in businesses that have run at least two dozen group homes, almost all in the northwestern suburbs of the Twin Cities. The state issued licenses and paid Medicaid dollars for those businesses to provide care and supervision to Minnesotans, typically those with mental illnesses or physical disabilities.

But an investigation by MPR News and its national investigative unit, APM Reports, shows that Dukuly’s financial success has come at a human cost, with multiple instances of residents being neglected and even dying in group homes linked to him. And the money has gone into bank accounts tied to alleged financial schemes in Minnesota and abroad — raising questions about the state’s oversight of the group home industry and the billions of dollars that have flowed into it.

At least twenty four group homes are involved in this mess. 

Sekou Dukuly definitely slipped through the cracks a couple of months ago when the DOJ announced 15 people in the state were charged with Medicaid Fraud. 

The Justice Department today announced the Minnesota Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 15 defendants, including owners of child care centers and various Medicaid providers, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over $90 million in intended loss, including the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in the District and first-of-their kind charges involving additional Medicaid programs. The Justice Department also announced a major investment in combatting Medicaid fraud through a significant expansion of the Division’s Health Care Fraud Section, allocating funding to permit the hiring of 15 new Trial Attorney positions to combat Medicaid fraud across the United States.

Keep in mind, Dukuly is living in… LIBERIA. Not Minneapolis or anywhere else in the state. Which makes this all the more infuriating given that Directors of assisted living homes should reside in the area and keep regular hours at the facility. However, according to the state licensing board, they see no problem with that. 

A spokesman for the Department of Health said it recently became aware through its own research that Dukuly was living overseas. But the department downplayed the significance of that discovery in a written statement, asserting that “nothing in statute prohibits a person from living out of state.” The assisted living director — the position Dukuly held — is “not required to be onsite,” the statement added.

But Ezra Golberstein, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health who studies state health policy and funding, described running group homes from overseas as “really messed up.”

“I don’t know where in the licensure and inspection process this is falling through the cracks,” Golberstein said.

Yes, this definitely fell through the cracks, or was ignored until media inquiries put a spotlight on the issue. Secondly, for Minnesota’s Department of Health to suggest that living in another country while serving as an assistant director of a facility is ok, tells me that they are hoping to shove this under the rug. 

This report shows that the healthcare fraud in Minnesota is deeper than anyone realizes. Yes, we know Medicaid and Medicare fraud is rampant. 

Fraud involving assisted living facilities adds another layer to this mess. 

This incident raises enormously troubling questions about the Walz administration’s failed oversight of the state’s group home industry.

Sadly, Tim Walz and Amy Klobuchar have been more focused on advancing their national political ambitions than fighting Minnesota's fraud…

— Lisa Demuth (@LisaDemuthMN) August 17, 2026

Yes indeed. All the key political figures in the state have been doing their damndest to ignore the rampant fraud. Fraud that happened under their oversight. 

24 group homes, collecting over 36 million dollars in taxpayer funds in 10 years. 10 cases of neglect. 22 cases of maltreatment, with four leading to the death of a patient.

Now he gets to run free in his home country of Liberia, after cashing out of America thanks to our tax… https://t.co/O57ET0g0AX

— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) August 17, 2026

At least the Human Services Department was concerned about Dukuly’s fraud. 

Oversight of group homes in Minnesota is shared between the Department of Health, which licenses the facilities linked to Dukuly, and the Department of Human Services, which funds them through Medicaid.

“The allegations outlined in your reporting are deeply concerning,” a spokesperson for the Human Services Department wrote in response to questions about Dukuly’s activities in the group home industry. The department would not confirm whether it has open investigations into any businesses linked to him.

“We can say that an owner of a Medicaid program moving abroad would raise concerns for our investigators, even if it is not prohibited by law,” the statement from the department added.

Meanwhile, I’d say the families of residents who were harmed in the facilities that Dukuly was involved with have more than a few questions right now. 

By the way, Dukuly isn’t the only one. 

Immigrant ‘entrepreneur’ collected $36.2 million before Minnesota Medicaid fraud probe

It was billed as “Bankruptcy to Multimillions in 5 Years.”

In YouTube videos, Cameroonian immigrant Arnold Kubei sips Champagne and stands inside his luxury home before touting his rise from… pic.twitter.com/hRVZzhQNqP

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) August 3, 2026

The Democrat politicians in Minnesota are part and parcel of the rot within the state. They, as well as people like Sekou Dukuly, need to be held accountable. 

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