Drain the Swamp · MN Medicaid · May 16, 2026 · 9:30 AM ET

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From Bankruptcy to a $3.2 Million Medicaid Check — On Walz’s Watch.

In 2014, Arnold Kubei— a Cameroonian-born Minnesotan who entered the United States as an asylee in 2007 — declared personal bankruptcy after a Maplewood gas-station deal collapsed under a leaking underground tank. He lost roughly $30,000 of his own savings. Seven years later he was on YouTube’s “Immigrant Money” channel posing in front of a yellow Lamborghini under the title “Bankruptcy to Multimillions in 5 Years.”

Between the bankruptcy and the Lamborghini sat two Woodbury-based companies he owned — Metro Care Human Services and Home Sweet Home Minnesota — and roughly $3.2 million in Minnesota Medicaid payments to Home Sweet Home alone since 2024. On April 28, 2026, the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (under Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN)), the FBI, and HHS-OIG executed search warrants at five Kubei sites. The same day, the Minnesota Department of Human Services issued temporary immediate suspensions of both companies, citing an “imminent risk of harm to persons served” and a “pending administrative investigation related to fraud against Minnesota’s Medicaid program.”

Kubei has appealed both suspensions and denies wrongdoing. He has not been criminally charged. He is one node in something much larger: a fraud network the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota now estimates at over $9 billion across 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 — under the same governor and the same attorney general — Tim Walz (D-MN) and Keith Ellison.

• $3.2Min Minnesota Medicaid payments to Home Sweet Home Minnesota since 2024 — Fox News, May 15, 2026
• 5Kubei sites raided April 28, 2026 by MFCU, FBI, and HHS-OIG — MN AG press release
• 145days of frozen payments to Kubei's companies as of April 30 — KSTP-TV
• $9B+estimated fraud across 14 MN Medicaid programs since 2018 — Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson
• $18Btotal spending across the 14 programs over the same window — "half or more" alleged fraudulent
• $259Min federal Medicaid funds paused by the Trump administration pending MN anti-fraud plan — CBS News MN

Arnold Kubei’s arc reads like an entrepreneurship parable until you ask who paid for the second act. He entered the United States in 2007 as an asylee from Cameroon and settled in the Twin Cities. In 2014, a Maplewood gas station he bought collapsed when an underground storage tank began leaking; he filed personal bankruptcy and, by his own telling to Sahan Journal in 2022, lost about $30,000 of personal savings.

What he built next was almost entirely funded by the State of Minnesota. After the bankruptcy he incorporated Metro Care Human Services, a Medicaid-funded community-based provider licensed by MN DHS to deliver home- and community-based supports for adults with disabilities, former prisoners, and people in nursing-home transition. He then added Home Sweet Home Minnesota, which converted duplexes and small apartment buildings into assisted-living facilities billing Medicaid as well. Both operate out of 6043 Hudson Rd Ste 340, Woodbury, MN, under the holding entity Kubei Holdings Group LLC.

“Since I lost everything back in 2014, I have not failed on any single thing I've done. Bankruptcy was a learning experience.”

Arnold Kubei to Sahan Journal · Feb. 7, 2022 — pre-scandal profile

In 2021, Kubei sat for an interview on the “Immigrant Money” YouTube and Facebook channel under the title Bankruptcy to Multimillions in 5 Years. The interview ran a now-familiar wealth-display reel: mansion, Lamborghini, watch, money sack. His verbatim hook on camera: “Immigrant money, immigrant money, I came from overseas and now I got the money.”

“Immigrant money, immigrant money, I came from overseas and now I got the money.”

Arnold Kubei · Immigrant Money interview · 2021

Public records and Kubei’s own claims line up like this:

The Lamborghini, like the mansion, was not bought with gas-station equity. It was bought during a five-year stretch in which the dominant inflow on the financial statements was the Minnesota Medicaid program — the same program the state’s own DHS is now telling a federal investigation Kubei may have been billing for services his clients never received.

On April 28, 2026, the Minnesota DHS issued temporary immediate suspensions of bothKubei companies, citing “imminent risk of harm to persons served” and a “pending administrative investigation and pending administrative action related to fraud against Minnesota’s Medicaid program.” The DHS suspension letters, reviewed by Fox News and Alpha News MN, allege that clients were not receiving services outlined in their support plans, including medication assistance. One Kubei client was hospitalized on March 11, 2026 — an incident cited in the DHS letters.

On the same day, the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit — which sits under Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-MN) — together with the FBI and HHS-OIG, executed search warrants at five Kubei-affiliated sites. The Minnesota DHS had already stopped Medicaid payments to both companies on December 2, 2025; by Kubei’s own count at his April 30 KSTP appearance, that meant 145 days of no payments heading into the suspensions.

“People use fraud, fraud, fraud everywhere, to attack us with it. We are not the guys.”

Arnold Kubei to KSTP-TV · April 30, 2026

Kubei has filed administrative appeals against both suspensions. He told KSTP that he was “broken” and “surprised” when the temporary suspension hit and that his clients were genuinely receiving services. None of these allegations have been adjudicated. He has not been charged with a crime. He is presumed innocent.

“When I got that temporary suspension, I was broken. I was… I was surprised.”

Arnold Kubei to KSTP-TV · April 30, 2026

Kubei is not Feeding Our Future. He is not the autism / EIDBI ring. He is not the Housing Stabilization Services bust. He is a separate node in the broader Minnesota Medicaid fraud landscape that Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson publicly quantified at the end of 2025.

“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It's staggering, industrial-scale fraud.”

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson · D-MN · Dec. 18, 2025

“When I say significant amount, I'm talking on the order of half or more.”

Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson · D-MN · Dec. 18, 2025 — on share of the $18B that was fraudulent

Across the 14 Minnesota Medicaid programs Thompson’s office is tracking, the math is brutal. The state spent roughly $18 billion across those 14 programs since 2018. Thompson estimates $9 billion or more— half or more — was fraudulent. The headline cases:

On March 4, 2026, the U.S. House Oversight Committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), held a hearing on the Minnesota Medicaid fraud crisis. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and AG Keith Ellison (D-MN) both testified. The Committee’s interim staff report — titled The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion— reached the following finding:

“[They] were aware for years of widespread fraud… deliberately misled the American people about their knowledge of the fraud, and repeatedly failed to take meaningful action.”

U.S. House Oversight Committee interim staff report · March 2026 · on Gov. Walz (D) and AG Ellison (D)

The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention Committee — a state-level body — reached a parallel conclusion in its own final report, finding that a “culture of tolerance” under Walz allowed serial fraudsters to fleece Minnesota taxpayers for billions.

“That's why they call it human services, we would always expect to have to deal with some measure of fraud.”

Former DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead · Minnesota Senate testimony · Jan. 22, 2025

Harpstead resigned as DHS Commissioner on February 3, 2025amid the unfolding fraud crisis and was later subpoenaed by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Walz, for his part, has publicly called Thompson’s $9 billion estimate “sensationalized.”

Two days after the April 28 raid, Kubei appeared on KSTP-TV in the Twin Cities to push back. He denied the underlying allegations, said his clients were receiving services, framed the suspension as financial ruin, and quantified the freeze:

“We've not been paid since December 2nd. I think today is April 30. That's over 145 days of no payments.”

Arnold Kubei to KSTP-TV · April 30, 2026

Kubei has filed appeals of both suspensions. As of this writing, no criminal charges have been filed against him in state or federal court. The search warrants were executed under seal, and their precise affidavits have not been made public. The DHS suspension orders are administrative, not criminal. Everything alleged against Kubei is alleged. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence, and Civic Intelligence accords it to him.

What is notalleged — what is documented — is the $3.2 million in Medicaid payments to Home Sweet Home Minnesota since 2024, the April 28 search warrants at five sites, the temporary suspensions of both companies, and the public statements Kubei himself made on the “Immigrant Money” channel in 2021 about going from bankruptcy to multimillions in five years. Those are facts. The rest is for the investigators — and, if charges follow, a jury.

The Minnesota fraud story landed inside a national political fight Walz had already lost once on the 2024 ticket. By late April 2026, Fox News and Greg Gutfeld were framing it as a governance indictment of an entire model:

“This is what happens when ideology replaces oversight. When you're afraid of being called racist, you stop looking altogether. Fraud becomes a lot easier when no one's paying attention. And under his watch, nobody was.”

Greg Gutfeld · monologue on the Walz fraud record · late April 2026

President Donald Trump has posted repeatedly on the Minnesota Medicaid fraud crisis since the federal $259 million pause and the spring 2026 raids. Two representative posts on Truth Social: