Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled to the United States after narrowly losing Brazil’s presidential election under unusual circumstances and after Brazil’s left-wing government demanded he surrender his passports.

Bolsonaro, son of convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, has left Brazil for the U.S., two sources told CNN Tuesday. A U.S. official then seemingly confirmed the report, telling the outlet that Bolsonaro was headed for Florida before stating that his destination was unclear, CNN said.

‘Do not recognize these elections.’

Reuters, citing three sources, reported that he had left Brazil for the U.S. One source even said that the Trump administration had granted asylum to Bolsonaro and his immediate family, the outlet reported.

“After months of intense work that has been unfairly thwarted, I am not in the mood to speak to the press,” said Paulo Figueiredo, an unofficial family spokesman.

Bolsonaro lost Sunday’s runoff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by about 3.6 points after Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin extended voting by two hours, stirring fraud suspicions. Zanin was Lula’s personal defense lawyer until Lula put him on the court in 2023.

Lula was previously found guilty of corruption and money-laundering charges. He spent over 550 days in prison before he was freed in 2019. The Supreme Court annulled his convictions in 2021 on jurisdictional grounds.

The elder Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for what some claim was a political hit job. Flávio Bolsonaro also faces allegations of money laundering and other crimes.

“It is impossible to accept the result of the elections under these conditions,” Flávio Bolsonaro said Sunday night, vowing to seek annulment.

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“Do not recognize these elections,” Eduardo Bolsonaro, Flávio’s brother, said in an X video. On Tuesday, Eduardo called reports that his brother had absconded a “lie,” CNN reported.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes signed a sealed order the night of the presidential election demanding that Bolsonaro surrender his passports. The order also prohibited Bolsonaro from leaving Brazil.

Federal Police canceled the passports Tuesday amid reports that Bolsonaro had fled the country, according to CNN.

Argentina’s Infobae reported that Bolsonaro crossed into the Misiones province to take a private jet, though this report remains unconfirmed. Argentina said it has “no record” of him entering.

“The process is confidential. We do not have any information,” Brazil’s Supreme Court told Blaze News when asked about Moraes’ passport confiscation order.

The State Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

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A delegation of Cuban officials interrupted a speech by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, which led to a heated shouting match.

Waltz was defending the U.S. embargo against the communist regime on the island nation when the Cuban delegation began pounding on their desks.

‘Back up, ambassador! Back away! This isn’t Havana! You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with?’

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called for a point of order from the U.N. presiding official before he furiously walked toward the podium where Waltz was speaking.

“You are a liar!” he yelled.

“Imagine what happens when someone asks these questions in Havana, not in a room full of ambassadors and cameras. Imagine what happens to those people if this is the intimidation and disruption that we see,” Waltz said.

Rodriguez continued to yell.

“Your excellency, I know you don’t like to hear this. This is America, my friend!” Waltz chided. “This is the United Nations. This isn’t your communist dictatorship!”

Rodriguez continued to yell.

“You cannot silence me, and you cannot silence my colleagues!” Waltz added.

The presiding official promised to allow Rodriguez to speak, but he continued to yell and interrupt.

“This individual needs to back away from this podium! He’s not going to intimidate me,” Waltz said.

“Back up, ambassador! Back away! This isn’t Havana! You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with?” Waltz yelled.

At this point, the presiding officer suspended the meeting.

“This is America. Back up!” Waltz yelled back.

Cuba has been suffering from a crippling embargo that has tightened under the Trump administration. The United Nations has voted against the U.S. embargo for decades, though the motion is largely symbolic.

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Rodriguez accused Waltz of lying grossly and offending the dignity of the people of Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have heightened tensions with Cuba after he posted a message Friday many took as a provocation against the communist regime.

“To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba — now is the time,” he wrote on social media. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”

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The Department of Homeland Security has released the full video of an interview “60 Minutes” conducted with DHS general counsel James Percival.

The “60 Minutes” segment Sunday with reporter Gianna Toboni documented the plight of an illegal alien who had been deported to Ghana and claimed to have been sent to war-torn Mali, where he ended up homeless and hiding out of fear for his safety.

‘I do really reject your characterization of someone who is in this country illegally and breaking our laws as quote, unquote, law-abiding.’

While the report had a few short clips quoting Percival in defense of the deportation process, the full interview video, which the DHS shared on social media Monday night, showed him challenging Toboni’s narrative overall.

“That’s why I am going for the clarity here because I hear a lot about the violent offenders, point taken,” Toboni said at one point, referring to deportees. “But what I don’t hear about is the law-abiding folks, who, in our reporting, is more than half.”

“You’re suggesting that people who are in this country illegally are law-abiding?” Percival replied.

“Let’s say [they] don’t have a criminal record outside of an immigration offense, maybe overstaying a tourist visa,” Toboni responded.

“If you are in this country illegally, it is virtually impossible for you to live in this country and not commit additional legal violations — working without authorization, identity theft. There’s a lot of illegality that goes on when you are breaking the law,” he replied.

“But I do really reject your characterization of someone who is in this country illegally and breaking our laws as quote, unquote, law-abiding. I think that’s fundamentally inaccurate and unfair,” Percival added.

“OK, fair enough,” she accepted.

The DHS posted a clip of that interaction to social media, where it quickly garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

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Percival pointed out in an X post Tuesday that the “60 Minutes” report shared a brief video from his interview where he admitted that he didn’t know offhand what percentage of third-country removals involved illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.

In the extended clip, he goes on to explain at length why third-country removals are necessary in difficult cases.

“What I can say is, there’s a very specific reason why this population is disproportionately criminal. Well, it’s really two reasons,” Percival said.

“Number one, when countries refuse to accept their nationals back, they disproportionately do that for violent criminals. People don’t really want to take their violent criminals back,” he explained.

“Point two is, people will sometimes get what’s called withholding of removal, that type of relief, because they are statutorily ineligible for asylum. And what creates that ineligibility in many cases is significant criminal conduct,” he continued.

He said that prior to the Trump administration, many of these violent criminals would reoffend because prior administrations were not enforcing immigration laws.

“60 Minutes” posted a video of the full interview with Percival on YouTube on Monday.

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The president said anyone who reported voter fraud would be eligible for a million-dollar reward if it led to an arrest and conviction.

President Donald Trump announced the award on his Truth Social account on Monday, just days before the pivotal midterm election day.

‘Only I can make this promise to you.’

“Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!” he wrote.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added.

It’s unclear what the source of the award money would be.

The Trump administration is currently in a legal feud with California officials over a list of people identified as likely “noncitizen” voters registered to vote.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused an emergency request from the Department of Justice to force California to segregate mail-in ballots from those on the list.

In September, the president also promised to hand out $5,000 checks as a kind of dividend if Republicans won both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections.

“Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders,” he explained.

“Because we’ve done so well and because our country is making so much money, that only I can make this promise to you,” he added.

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Most pundits believe the Republicans will lose control of the House and maybe even lose the Senate as well, though some say that polling may not be capturing an accurate measure of voter sentiment.

The president has long maintained that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election by voter fraud.

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A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has denied an emergency request from the federal government to force California officials to set aside mail-in ballots from 20,000 people tagged as possible noncitizens.

Californian officials have resisted the request from the Dept. of Justice because they say there’s not enough time to verify the legality of each voter before the election.

‘It was determined that none of the individuals USCIS matched to the County’s Sample List were born in the United States according to USCIS records.’

They have also accused the administration of trying to disenfranchise voters on vague and unreliable evidence that has not been provided to the state officials.

On Monday evening, the appeals court ruled 2-1 that it lacked the jurisdiction to grant the emergency request. The panel of judges did not rule on the eligibility of the 20,000 voters.

The court majority ruling pointed out that the federal government knew about the possibility of noncitizen voters for months and filed its demand only after processing of mail-in ballots had already begun:

There is a material risk that defendants would be unable to complete the verification process for all voters on the October list by December 3. Thus, there is a real risk that granting plaintiff its requested relief would result in disenfranchisement, and worse, could jeopardize the county’s entire election.

Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly had argued California’s actions were causing irreparable harm “by allowing noncitizens to vote in violation of their own state laws. The damage is irreversible and irrevocable.”

Seth Waxman, attorney for the Los Angeles County Clerk, argued that reviewing the millions of records against the government’s list would take about 140,000 man hours, which is about 16 years of time.

He also cited a review of a sample of 200 records from the list, saying that staffers found many of them were canceled or inactive registrations or individuals with no voting history.

However, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official submitted a sworn affidavit that review of the 200 names found none of them were born in the U.S., contrary to L.A. officials alleging that 38.9% had attested to being native born.

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“After a thorough review of the immigration records of all the individuals on the County’s Sample List, it was determined that none of the individuals USCIS matched to the County’s Sample List were born in the United States according to USCIS records,” said Nicolas Bartell, associate director of the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate at USCIS.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta praised the ruling from the appeals court.

“The U.S. Constitution gives states and Congress — not the president or the executive branch — the power to determine the time, place, and manner of elections,” he said. “The court’s order serves as an important step in our efforts to protect Californians’ right to vote and our state’s authority to run fair and secure elections.”

“Trump’s assault on democracy won’t slow down. Each and every one of us can do something: participate in democracy, don’t become disillusioned,” said Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “California is fighting back. And we are calling on all Californians to do the same.”

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Midterm elections are just days away, and it’s not looking good for the GOP. Prediction markets strongly favor Democrats, with both Kalshi and Polymarket pointing to a Democratic sweep of both chambers.

“If you happen to be a Republican or conservative, it’s been kind of cloudy weather, right?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere acknowledges.

“You can say you don’t believe prediction markets. You can say you don’t believe the news. All that’s totally up to you. One thing that is believable, though, is where Republicans are putting their money,” he continues, “and right now, Republicans are putting their money in states like Mississippi, South Carolina, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas.”

Based on where the funding is going, the GOP, Stu argues, has “given up on states like North Carolina and Georgia,” where both Senate races favor Democrats by over 90%.

But other states, he says, seem to be going from “horrible news to less bad news.”

Displaying recent data from YouGov showing that the Democratic lead has narrowed from its September peak, Stu says that Republicans, who have been “not as passionate” as Democrats in this election, are starting to gain interest again.

“As you get closer to a race, as you come out of Labor Day, as you get out of the summer stuff, your kids go back to school, you start focusing on the election again. You start seeing a hundred million dollars of ads; all of a sudden you go from, ‘I don’t really care about this election’ to, ‘You know what, I actually kind of do care about this election, and now I am going to make sure I get out and vote,”’ he explains.

Citing more YouGov data, he continues, “85% of Democrats said they were sure to vote. That has risen to 87. … Republicans have seen a much more dramatic gain there. They were at 70% and have risen all the way to 80%, so they have closed the gap from about 15 points to seven in that time period of about a month.”

“That is very good news for Republicans and Republican candidates, if this holds true.”

Even though trends are looking more positive for the GOP, Stu is by no means celebrating.

“What the truth here is that while there is a narrowing, the narrowing doesn’t mean you’re going to see massive gains for Republicans in the House and Senate. I don’t think that’s going to happen at all,” he says soberly.

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As election season draws into its final week, many candidates and politicians are making their final rounds with voters across the country.

And Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came out swinging for the GOP in Michigan.

‘The Christians have been expelled. They’ve gone from 20% of the population to 4% of the population. These were genocides.’

On Monday, RFK Jr. joined Michigan gubernatorial candidate John James and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers at a campaign event in Grand Rapids to make a final appeal to voters in what may be one of the highest-profile Senate races in the country.

And RFK Jr. spent a portion of his time dropping some lines about the Muslim Brotherhood.

He called the Muslim Brotherhood a “death cult” that embraces “murder and genocide,” causing the nations it overtakes to become “atrophied and stagnant.”

“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win the Nobel Prize. … They don’t produce literature. … All of that tradition has been destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood. They have created stagnant societies,” he said.

By contrast, he said, traditional Islam gave rise to “art and literature and science and engineering” and societies that for 1,000 years “were highly tolerant and pluralistic and cosmopolitan.”

While many in the corporate media fired back with examples of Arabs winning prizes and participating in culture, it seems that they unintentionally — or intentionally — ignored the primary point he was making: The Muslim Brotherhood’s “death cult” ideology has created a “stagnant society” — not that the Arab world does not have culture.

The HHS secretary went on to say that societies under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood are most effective at producing “hatred and war and victimization.”

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He also reminded the event attendees that the Middle East has not always been Muslim.

“There were millions and millions of Christians. Those were all Christian countries,” RFK Jr. said. “Egypt was a Christian country, Libya was a Christian country, Algeria was a Christian country, Iraq was a Christian country, Syria, Lebanon was a Christian country in 1948. The Christians have been expelled. They’ve gone from 20% of the population to 4% of the population. These were genocides.”

“The only people they tell that ‘our objective is not genocide’ are Western dupes and useful idiots,” he went on.

Rogers’ Democrat opponent, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, better known as Abdul El-Sayed, has repeatedly been accused of extremism, up to and including the insinuation that he and his family are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

El-Sayed has denied these allegations.

According to Blaze News’ Poll Watch, El-Sayed is favored by 2.6 points over Mike Rogers with seven days left before the general election.

Vice President JD Vance appeared in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday to support Rogers before a planned trip to Weatherford, Texas, to lend his voice to another of the most contentious Senate races in this election cycle.

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The craft store Michaels is under fire for an incident that happened at its Mayfield Heights, Ohio, location earlier this month. A conservative podcaster who posts under the name Chaos Coordinator said staff refused to custom-frame three items for her: a favorite image of President Trump, a religious watercolor painting of praying presidents by artist Jon McNaughton, and an original moon-landing newspaper.

She claimed an employee cited company policy and that the manager treated the items as sensitive or inappropriate.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales plays the video that Chaos Coordinator took of the exchange.

“So this lady decided she didn’t want to service me because she didn’t like the pictures I brought for framing?” she said to the employee in reference to the manager. “Is this Michaels’ policy? Because I’m going to write to them and talk to them about that.”

“It’s not political; this is for my house,” she added.

The employee continued to claim, “We’re not allowed to do political pieces.”

In response to Chaos Coordinator’s video, Michaels responded:

“Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Michaels does not have a policy prohibiting the framing of political items, and we strive to welcome every customer. We’ve reached out directly to discuss your experience and ensure your project needs are met.”

“I’m just wondering: What else are you going to be doing about this, Michaels?” asks Sara.

She notes that this isn’t the first time the chain has ignited controversy by refusing a customer who wanted a Trump picture framed.

According to a 2024 Seattle Red article, a Michaels customer claimed an employee refused to frame the photo of Donald Trump with his fist raised in the air after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, because it made her “uncomfortable.” She also claimed other employees would likely feel uncomfortable as well.

“It’s very interesting. … It seems to be only Trump material that these people are worried about framing,” says Sara.

She points out that in 2009, Michaels published a press release titled “Framing Presidential History” promoting its $99.99 special to custom-frame Obama inauguration newspaper front pages.

“Wow. How historic. How special,” Sara mocks.

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A Florida mother allegedly left her four children home alone for nearly a week so she could go on a trip to Las Vegas. However, police reportedly greeted the mom at the airport and arrested her after her youngest child was injured in her absence.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that a child called 911 shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The juvenile informed the dispatcher that her 9-year-old brother had been injured when a dumbbell fell on his head, police said.

‘The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office will not tolerate child neglect.’

According to the statement, deputies responded to the residence and found four unsupervised children, ages 14, 12, 11, and 9.

Fire rescue personnel transported the 9-year-old boy to Celebration Hospital for treatment. The boy was later discharged.

A responding deputy contacted the children’s mother, 50-year-old Irene Miller, by phone.

“She told deputies that she had a babysitter coming from Tampa in the mornings to get the children ready for school and to check on them after school, but she did not require her to stay the night,” the statement read.

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Miller told the officer she was working in Las Vegas and would return Friday, Oct. 23.

The New York Post reported that Miller, citing her social media, is a professional photographer and appeared to be working with a client in Las Vegas who was involved with the real estate brokerage franchise network Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate.

Police said Miller departed Florida for Nevada on Oct. 18.

Police bodycam video the sheriff’s office released shows deputies confronting Miller on a jet bridge at the Orlando International Airport after she stepped off her flight from Las Vegas on Friday. Deputies escorted the mother through the airport before placing her in handcuffs.

Miller, of Kissimmee, was booked into the Orange County Jail and charged with four counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.

Miller has since posted bond and has been released from jail, according to Law&Crime.

Police contacted the children’s father, and he took all of the kids to his home.

Osceola Sheriff Chris Blackmon stated, “The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office will not tolerate child neglect. These cases will be investigated, and charges will be brought against the parents who are not properly supervising or caring for their children.”

Miller’s next court date was not immediately listed.

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A total of over 250 congressmen, on both sides of the political aisle, have hatched a plan to change the “heritage” that people celebrate during the most American month of the year.

On Monday, Indian-born Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) proposed a resolution to designate July as “Indian American Heritage Month.”

‘If y’all are just as American as anyone else, why do you need a month to honor your distinctiveness?’

The resolution, which was co-sponsored by over 200 of Krishnamoorthi’s Democrat colleagues as well as 50 Republicans, seeks to honor “the contributions of Indian Americans.”

Citing 2023 Census data, the resolution notes that there are “more than 5,200,000 Indian Americans” in the country, though that number has likely increased substantially due in part to legal immigration programs like the H-1B visa.

Krishnamoorthi’s resolution holds that July is the appropriate time of year to celebrate the Indian people because July 2 marks the anniversary of President Harry S. Truman signing the Luce-Celler Act of 1946.

The Luce-Celler Act of 1946 was co-sponsored by Clare Boothe Luce and Emanuel Celler, better known for the Hart-Celler Act of 1965.

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The law made Filipinos and Indians racially eligible for naturalization; it was passed in anticipation of the successful independence movements of the respective countries.

The Democrat congressman, who was born, coincidentally, on July 19 in New Delhi, India, posted an announcement on social media celebrating the resolution.

The post, which notably bears the colors of the Indian flag without any explicit reference to any American symbols, read: “I’m proud to lead 256 bipartisan cosponsors in a resolution to designate July as Indian American Heritage Month.”

“Generations of Indian Americans have helped build and strengthen our country. It’s time we honor their contributions and celebrate their enduring legacy,” Krishnamoorthi added.

The congressman’s post, which received more than 300,000 views but only 1,000 likes, was flooded with pushback and negative comments.

“Kind of disgusting to try to coopt the month of our national birthday,” one commenter said.

Another commenter pointed out the absurdities of the proposal: “Wait. If y’all are just as American as anyone else, why do you need a month to honor your distinctiveness? What months does India set aside to honor foreign ancestries it welcomed into the country?”

Blaze Media’s Logan Hall even joined the fray, saying, “Hey buddy not sure if you are aware of this but July is when we celebrate America and Americans.”

While the resolution was overwhelmingly led by Democrats, it is also supported by dozens of well-known Republican lawmakers, including Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr; Texas Reps. Jake Ellzey, Ronny Jackson, and Dan Crenshaw; Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick; New York Reps. Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik; and Ohio Rep. Mike Turner.

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The newest crime report from the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that non-fatal crime has plummeted during the first year of the second Trump administration.

The preliminary estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey — which collects information from victims of non-fatal crimes, not data from police reports — show a significant decrease in violent crime, property victimization, burglary or trespassing, theft of motor vehicles, and other household theft in 2025.

‘This success reinforces our commitment to ensuring every American can live, work, and raise a family without fear.’

The survey said non-fatal violent crime, which excludes simple assault, fell by 25%, from 9.9 out of 1,000 in 2024 to 7.4 out of 1,000 in 2025. This includes rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Aggravated assault also dropped by 31% over the same period, from 4.5 per 1,000 people to 3.1 per 1,000 people, according to a Justice Department press release on Monday.

“This report is proof that President Trump’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ agenda is working,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward in a press release statement.

“Under President Trump and Attorney General Blanche, the safety of law-abiding Americans will always come first. This success reinforces our commitment to ensuring every American can live, work, and raise a family without fear.”

Property victimization dropped by 19%, burglary or trespassing rates are down by 25%, motor vehicle theft is down 30%, and other kinds of household theft are down by 19%.

“Each year, BJS collects information from a nationally representative sample of about 240,000 persons, aged 12 or older, in about 150,000 U.S. households on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of non-fatal criminal victimization in the United States,” the DOJ explained.

The DOJ said the drop in crime rates was the greatest since the survey began in 1973.

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Democrats have resisted some of the president’s orders on criminal enforcement by accusing him of employing authoritarian measures in order to intimidate his political opponents.

Others like Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, have admitted that the president sending federal law enforcement has helped stamp out crime.

Some estimates put the economic cost of crime to be between $4.71 and $5.76 trillion on an annual basis.

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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday busted a Maine home health care agency that reportedly billed nearly $48 million from MaineCare.

A federal grand jury indicted South Portland’s Community Home Health Care LLC, owner Noora Abd, and five people who worked there. Authorities allege that at least $600,000 in billing was fraudulent, and all six involved individuals were arrested.

‘If, as alleged in the indictment returned last week, you steal from our health care system for your own financial gain, you too, will be shut down and brought to justice.’

Prosecutors allege that the defendants submitted fake Electronic Visit Verifications for a MaineCare member, listed as “Client 1.” MaineCare paid Community Home Health more than $600,000 for that client’s care since 2020, according to the indictment.

MaineCare later reversed about $35,000 of those payments, the indictment says.

Agents seized $116,854 in cash in Biddeford on or about June 23, most of it from a bedroom safe that also held jewelry, according to the indictment. Agents also confiscated $53,768.85 in Augusta.

Community seems to have billed more from MaineCare than any other home health care company in Maine. The company, established in 2016, received $47,986,855 from MaineCare from 2019 through 2025, according to the Maine Wire.

The state suspended its billing on June 30, according to the Maine Wire.

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The Maine Wire visited Community’s office, located above a South Portland gym, in April. Staff insisted the business was legitimate.

Prosecutors allege the fraud was perpetrated in a straightforward manner. Mohammed Alkhalaf, a personal support specialist at Community, logged in to the Electronic Visit Verifications system with the usernames and passwords of co-defendants Adel Al Rashid, Sura Almohammed, and Ethar Alyaseen, plus an uncharged “Person 1,” according to the indictment.

The defendants shared their Electronic Visit Verifications access with one another so that false visits could be recorded under their names, prosecutors allege.

Abd and Faysal Kalayaf Manahe learned that federal agents were investigating the company on or about June 23, according to the indictment. Prosecutors allege the pair subsequently urged a witness, “Person 2,” to refrain from communicating with law enforcement.

The duo also instructed Person 2 to give investigators misleading or inaccurate information if law enforcement officers questioned Person 2, according to prosecutors.

When questioned at his home in Augusta, Alkhalaf allegedly told an FBI agent that he had never filed care hours for anyone but himself.

All six individuals and the company itself are charged with health care fraud conspiracy, which carries up to 10 years in prison. Abd and Manahe also face an obstruction count, and Alkhalaf faces a false-statements count, according to the court docket.

Manahe is no stranger to federal court.

He runs Decent Health Care in Augusta, which billed MaineCare $4,848,112 in 2025. The state suspended its billing on June 30 after uncovering credible evidence that it charged for services that were never actually provided, according to an August report from the Maine Wire. The outlet identified Manahe as an Iraqi immigrant.

The Justice Department charged Manahe and three other home-care managers with conspiring to fix the wages of personal support workers in 2022, though a jury acquitted all four in 2023.

The case is part of the Trump administration’s Homeland Security Task Force, created under an executive order titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion.” The FBI, HHS-OIG, HSI, and IRS-CI investigated alongside Maine’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

“Health care fraud — in all its forms — costs all of us, and today’s arrests should make it clear that if, as alleged in the indictment returned last week, you steal from our health care system for your own financial gain, you too will be shut down and brought to justice,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Benson said.

Stephen Smith, an attorney for Alkhalaf, declined to comment.

Attorneys for Abd, Community Home Health Care, Al Rashid, Almohammed, and Alyaseen did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

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​Maine, Fraud, Politics