Dear officials at the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,National Whistleblower Alert: Americans with Disabilities Trapped in Forced Housing, Exploitative Labor, and Systemic Medicaid ABI/HCBS Waiver Abuse Nationwide

Dear officials at the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Thank you for reading this. I will explain everything as simply as possible, the same way I would explain it to a neighbor who has never heard these words before. My name is David Medeiros. I survived a traumatic brain injury and stroke. Because of that injury, I sometimes have trouble with memory and phone conversations, so I always ask for email communication only and I use different devices and systems to keep me organized and able to retrieve memories at later dates this is my legal right under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Medicaid is government health insurance paid for by federal and state taxes. The Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Waiver is a special part of Medicaid. It pays for therapy, help at home, transportation, and planning so adults with brain injuries can live in their own homes or communities instead of nursing homes. My grassroots company, ABI Resources LLC, helps families get those services in Connecticut. ABI Resources has always grown because of the compassion and reputation of our staff members, the quality of our services, and because we provide outstanding free online public resources and information to help families understand brain injury home recovery. Our resources have been documented and used globally by families all around the world. We were blacklisted and shut out from the very beginning. We only learned this because a huge number of people and families and also employees from other Medicaid agencies and state-managed programs began contacting ABI Resources directly, furious about what was happening to them in the Connecticut Department of Social Services Medicaid programs. These families had been forced to use services from providers they did not select. Even worse, they were being forced to live and pay rent in housing places they did not select or want to live in. Many of these housing places are owned by the same agencies that also control their Medicaid services. This double control means the same company decides both the care you receive and where you must live and pay rent, leaving families with no real choice, no way to leave, and often paying thousands of dollars in rent every month to the very agency that is supposed to be helping them. Families told us they felt completely trapped they could not switch providers without losing their housing, and they could not move out of the housing without losing their approved Medicaid services. On top of that, many of these adults with disabilities were being forced to work for the same agencies for only $10 to $20 every two weeks, making promotional crafts for the agencies. These agencies were not registered or approved by the Department of Labor under the 14(c) program that allows sub-minimum wages for disabled workers, yet they were still billing the federal government hourly for “employment training services” at the same time. Adults with disabilities have been bought and trapped and have NO WAY OF GETTING HELP they disappear into a system that hides them in order to hide the crimes. What these families and employees described is not limited to Connecticut the same patterns of forced steering, housing control, and exploitative labor are happening in Medicaid waiver programs across the country, and Connecticut is simply the most thoroughly documented case. The employees who reached out told us they were seeing the same forced steering, housing control, and exploitative labor practices happening inside their own agencies and could no longer stay silent. Nobody in the system was listening to any of them. When they discovered ABI Resources through our free online resources, they reached out to us and we listened. What these families and these insider employees told us, day after day, revealed what appears to be a systematic, organized crime ring that was being used to steer consumers, monopolize federally funded Medicaid services, shut out honest providers like ours, trap people in both unwanted care and unwanted housing, and profit from illegal sub-minimum wage labor while double-billing the federal government. For years before 2023, David Medeiros spent countless hours reporting, creating solutions, talking with officials, writing letters, advocating and begging always trying to improve care and fairness for every Medicaid consumer in every program run by the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS). The first documented contacts between David Medeiros and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) began in 2021, according to timelines published on his own advocacy sites (ctbraininjury.com and related pages). Those early filings were part of his broader whistleblower efforts on Medicaid ABI Waiver program issues, ADA accommodations, discrimination, and retaliation involving state agencies like the Department of Social Services (DSS). All of that work was done to help all Medicaid consumers across every DSS-managed program, not just his own company. On November 21, 2023, I sent a 52-page report to Connecticut state officials describing the problems we had uncovered through these families and employees. On December 14–16, 2023, after feeling retaliated against for speaking up, I filed a complaint with Connecticut’s human rights commission. On September 21–24, 2024, I sent a 75-page report to the President, Vice President, and fourteen federal offices including all of you, providing evidence of wasted federal funds, labor law violations, and retaliation. Today, February 28, 2026, I publish this public Livewire article as a clear, open notice directly to you at the DOJ, FBI, HHS, and CMS. I respectfully ask the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate this apparent organized pattern, HHS and CMS to conduct immediate audits and recover misused federal funds, and all four agencies to protect the families and employees who courageously came forward so that vulnerable brain injury survivors can receive the honest care they deserve and taxpayer money is protected. I have kept every document. They are available on my website (david-medeiros.com/foia-archive). This is my protected personal opinion under the First Amendment, shared in good faith for people that have no voice and for the greatest good. Thank you for your service. I am ready to provide any additional information by email. David