A group home in Brooklyn Center run by a government official in Liberia billed the state for numerous services its residents did not need or did not receive, a state investigation found.
The findings released last week stemmed from a Health Department investigation that began two days after MPR News and APM Reports published an extensive report on the owner of the group home company, Sekou Dukuly. Until a month ago, Dukuly acted as the licensed assisted living director for three Golden Touch Health Care group homes in the Twin Cities suburbs, even though he was living in Liberia and serving as managing director of its National Port Authority.
The Health Department investigation, which centered on just one of those group homes, determined it was mathematically impossible for the facility to provide all the services it billed to the state, given the number of employees scheduled to work on many days…