Six Arrested in Maine, Accused of Faking Home Care Visits to Bill MaineCare

Published Oct. 28, 2026. Case statuses are current as of that date.

Home care is supposed to be checked. In Maine and other states, Medicaid-funded personal care visits are logged through Electronic Visit Verification, a system meant to prove a worker actually showed up. Federal prosecutors now allege that workers at a South Portland agency used that system to record visits that never happened.

Six Maine residents were arrested on Oct. 27, 2026, after a federal grand jury indicted them the week before on a health care fraud conspiracy charge, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine announced [1]. The agency, Community Home Health Care LLC, is also charged.

Important: These are allegations. No one in this case has been convicted. As the U.S. Attorney's Office put it, "An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law" [1].

How the scheme allegedly worked

According to the indictment, as described by prosecutors [1]:

1. The agency. Community Home Health Care LLC is a licensed personal care agency headquartered in South Portland. Noora Abd owned and operated it. The other individual defendants worked there as personal support specialists and in other roles.
2. The billing. Through Abd, the agency billed MaineCare, Maine's Medicaid program, for personal care services and was paid.
3. The false check-ins. The defendants allegedly submitted false Electronic Visit Verifications claiming they had performed personal care services for the agency's clients when the services had not been performed.
4. One client, big bills. Since 2020, the agency and Abd allegedly submitted numerous claims to MaineCare for personal care services supposedly provided to a single client, identified in the indictment only as "Client 1," totaling more than $600,000.

The release does not give a total for all claims at issue. The FBI said the alleged fraudulent claims "netted hundreds of thousands of dollars to which they were not entitled" [1].

The people charged and their status

All are charged with health care fraud conspiracy, according to the indictment as summarized by the U.S. Attorney's Office [1]:

• Noora Abd, also known as "Um Mohammed," 37. Owner and operator of Community Home Health Care. Also charged with obstructing a health care fraud investigation.
• Faysal Kalayaf Manahe, also known as "Abu Aziz," 51. Also charged with obstructing a health care fraud investigation.
• Adel Al Rashid, also known as "Abu Ayman," 47.
• Sura Almohammed, also known as "Um Ayman," 47.
• Ether Alyaseen, 46.
• Mohammed Alkhalaf, also known as "Abu Stayf," 41. Also charged with making false statements.
• Community Home Health Care LLC, South Portland.

The release identifies all six individuals as Maine residents but does not give their towns. All six were arrested on Oct. 27, 2026. Their release or detention status and any pleas entered are not stated (status pending).

The health care fraud conspiracy charge carries up to 10 years in prison, obstruction up to five years, and false statements up to five years [1].

The FBI, HHS Office of Inspector General, Homeland Security Investigations and IRS Criminal Investigation investigated with help from Maine's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force initiative, according to the release [1].

"As alleged, these defendants conspired to defraud MaineCare by billing for personal care services that were never rendered," said Roberto Coviello, Special Agent in Charge for HHS-OIG [1].

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said, "Cases like these can take years to properly build and I appreciate the significant work of all involved to meaningfully confront fraud and abuse in public benefits systems" [1].

Why this matters to families

Personal care services help older and disabled people bathe, dress, eat and stay safely at home. When visits are logged but not delivered, the person who needed the care can go without it, and the public money meant for that care is gone. Families are often the first to notice that a worker isn't showing up.

Red flags

These are general warning signs of this kind of scheme; not every one is alleged in this case.

• A care worker who rarely or never appears but whose visits are still being logged.
• Pressure to sign timesheets or confirm visits that didn't happen, or for the full time when the worker stayed only briefly.
• A worker asking to use your phone or account to "check in."
• Benefit statements showing more hours than your family member received.
• Offers to split payments in exchange for confirming services.

What to do if you're targeted

1. Keep your own log of when a care worker arrives and leaves.
2. Never confirm a visit that didn't happen, even if you're told it's just paperwork.
3. Review benefit statements and ask the agency or your case manager about hours you don't recognize.
4. Report suspected Medicaid fraud to your state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (in Maine, part of the Office of the Attorney General), or to the HHS Office of Inspector General at 1-800-HHS-TIPS or oig.hhs.gov.
5. Report other scams to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Older adults can call the National Elder Fraud Hotline at 1-833-372-8311.

Case status (as of Oct. 28, 2026)

Defendant	Court	Status	Source
Noora Abd ("Um Mohammed"), 37	U.S. District Court, D. Maine	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy, obstruction); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Faysal Kalayaf Manahe ("Abu Aziz"), 51	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy, obstruction); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Adel Al Rashid ("Abu Ayman"), 47	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Sura Almohammed ("Um Ayman"), 47	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Ether Alyaseen, 46	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Mohammed Alkhalaf ("Abu Stayf"), 41	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy, false statements); arrested Oct. 27, 2026; presumed innocent	[1]
Community Home Health Care LLC, South Portland	Same	Indicted (health care fraud conspiracy)	[1]

Statuses can change.

Sources

1. U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine, "Multiple Individuals Arrested for Health Care Fraud Conspiracy following Homeland Security Task Force Investigation," Oct. 27, 2026. https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/pr/multiple-individuals-arrested-health-care-fraud-conspiracy-following-homeland-security

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