Immigrant bragged about millions on YouTube, now probed for Medicaid fraud

A Minnesota Medicaid-funded home health operator that once touted its rise from bankruptcy to multimillion-dollar businesses is under investigation by state officials over allegations that its companies failed to provide the services they were paid to provide to vulnerable clients.

Arnold Kubei, who arrived in the United States in 2007 as an asylum seeker from Cameroon, went bankrupt in 2014 after a failed investment in a gas station, according to an interview he gave to a local media outlet in 2022. In 2021, however, Kubei ran two home care businesses that he said brought in a total of $3.7 million that year.

Today, the Minnesota Department of Human Services suspended Kubei’s license to provide home and community-based services as part of an investigation into allegations that he was not rendering services for which the state paid him.

Kubei’s businesses were supposed to help find community housing for the disabled, ex-convicts, nursing home residents, and others having difficulty finding permanent housing.

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Federal agents exit an office building after executing a search warrant for potential Medicaid fraud on December 18, 2025 in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Christophe Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Minnesota Department of Human Services determined Kubei’s businesses posed an “imminent risk of harm to those served” due to their failure to provide certain services.

Letters from the department sent in late April say Kubei’s businesses failed to ensure their patients received adequate medications, that seriously injured patients had no contact for help, and that some patients struggling with addiction had relapsed “due to lack of staff supervision to maintain sobriety.” Kubei also allegedly failed generally to provide patients with services “in response to identified needs, as specified in their support plans.”

“The licensee and controlling person are the subject of an ongoing administrative investigation and ongoing administrative action related to fraud against the Minnesota Medicaid program,” reads a letter from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to Kubei.

Home Sweet Home Minnesota alone has received nearly $3.2 million in taxpayer-funded payments since 2024, according to Alpha News’ review of Minnesota’s transparency database.

“People are using fraud, fraud, fraud everywhere, to attack us with it,” Kubei said a local media outlet in April after his license was suspended. “We’re not guys. We’re not guys. We’re guys who want to work with the Department of Human Services.”

“This is damaging to my reputation in this community. This is targeting. This is intimidation,” he continued.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz grimaces during a news conference. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

After starting the businesses, Kubei reportedly participated in an interview on the YouTube channel “Immigrant Money” detailing how he “went from bankruptcy to multi-million in just five years.” according to at Alpha News.

THE videowhich included footage of Kubei drinking champagne inside his home, was made private on the account before Fox News Digital could review it. Footage from the interview has since surfaced on other social media platforms, including X.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a news conference about the state’s new paid family leave policy at the Coliseum Building in Minneapolis, Jan. 6, 2026. The event came a day after Walz announced his withdrawal from the 2026 gubernatorial race. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune/Getty Images)

Kubei’s interview was preceded by a sing-song jingle: “Immigrant money, immigrant money, I’m from overseas and now I have the money.”

“I urge you to come to my summit so I can teach you how these things are supposed to be done,” Kubei said in the interview, according to Alpha News. “Got it.”

Fraud in Minnesota has become a national hot spot, with Republicans alleging that failures in state oversight, combined with standards in some immigrant communities, have exacerbated the problem. Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson claimed in December 2025 that the amount of fraud in the state’s Medicaid programs likely exceeded 9 billion dollars since 2018.

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He has appealed the suspension of his license and is seeking to reinstate state-funded payments for his businesses.

Kubei did not respond to a request for comment when contacted by Fox News Digital on Friday.