One Day, One Address, $150,800: The Fundraising Committee He Formed With the Two Chairmen Who Oversee Nursing Homes Took All Its Money From Six Kentucky Nursing-Home Companies, Split It, and Closed.

Campaign Finance / Health Care Source: FEC filings of the Langworthy Leadership & Accountability Fund (C00934109), Langworthy for Congress, Circle the Wagons PAC and the NRCC DOCUMENTED PATTERN

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Why this matters

Rep. Langworthy sits on the two House committees with jurisdiction over nursing homes: Energy and Commerce, which writes Medicaid law, and Oversight. In January 2026 he formed a joint fundraising committee with the chairmen of both, Brett Guthrie and James Comer of Kentucky. The committee raised money on exactly one day. Every dollar came from six nursing-home operating companies that share a single address in Richmond, Kentucky. Eleven days later the money was divided among the three members, their leadership PACs and the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the committee dissolved.

This site has documented his nursing-home money before: $55,000 from Benjamin and Judy Landa, and his vote for the law that blocked the federal nursing-home staffing rule. The Kentucky filings are a different set of donors and a different vehicle. They came to light through an October 30 American Prospect report; what follows is the filings themselves.

What the filings show

The committee. The Langworthy Leadership & Accountability Fund, FEC committee C00934109, filed its statement of organization on January 12, 2026, from the same Clarence, N.Y. post office box as his campaign, with the same treasurer. Its participants:

ParticipantRole
Langworthy for Congresshis campaign
Guthrie for CongressRep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chairman, Energy and Commerce
Comer for CongressRep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman, Oversight
Circle the Wagons PACLangworthy’s leadership PAC
Bringing Republican Excellence to Town PACGuthrie’s leadership PAC
Creating Opportunities, Markets and Enthusiasm in Rural Kentucky PACComer’s leadership PAC
NRCCthe House Republican campaign committee

The money. The committee reported no receipts in January and none in February. Its March report, filed April 1 as a termination report, lists $150,800 in receipts, all dated March 19, 2026, from one address, 300 Provider Court, Richmond, Kentucky:

ContributorAmount
Woodland Oaks Operations LLC$75,000
Klondike Nursing and Rehabilitation Center$50,000
Berea Healthcare LLC$6,000
Cambridge Operations LLC$6,000
Cumberland KY OpCo LLC$6,000
Dover Manor Operations LLC$6,000
In-kind, a self-employed “nursing home management” donor, Sebring, Fla.$1,800

The two large gifts carry attribution lines dividing them among four partners each, $18,750 apiece for Woodland Oaks and $12,500 apiece for Klondike. His own campaign’s quarterly report books its share with memo lines naming those partners, along with Mayer Fischl, a self-described nursing homes owner, Eli Grinspan, chief operating officer of Blue Grass Health Partners, and Richard Platschek of Lawrence, N.Y., whose occupation is listed as nursing home management.

Where it went. On March 30 the committee transferred its proceeds:

RecipientAmount
NRCC$51,984
Langworthy for Congress$21,578
Guthrie for Congress$21,578
Comer for Congress$21,578
Circle the Wagons PAC (Langworthy)$9,808
Guthrie’s leadership PAC$9,808
Comer’s leadership PAC$9,808
Compliance, software, in-kind$4,655

The same day, March 19, the NRCC separately recorded $39,000 from Woodland Oaks Operations and $14,000 from Klondike, with the same partner attributions. Counting its share of the committee’s proceeds, the NRCC received about $105,000 from the Richmond address that day.

In plain language: a fundraising committee that existed for eleven weeks, took money on one day from one group of nursing-home companies, and sent the congressman’s campaign and PAC $31,386 of it.

Who the donors are

The six companies are the operating entities of six Kentucky nursing homes. CMS’s Care Compare data, October 2026 release:

Nursing homeCityChain (per CMS)Overall ratingStaffing rating
Woodland OaksAshlandBluegrass Health KY4 of 52
Klondike Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterLouisvilleEncore Health Partners42
Cambridge Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterLexingtonBluegrass Health KY32
Cumberland Valley Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterBurkesvilleBluegrass Health KY23
Berea Health and RehabilitationBereaBluegrass Health KY11
Dover Nursing & Rehabilitation CenterGeorgetownBluegrass Health KY11

CMS groups five of the six under a 15-facility chain it labels “Bluegrass Health KY,” whose average staffing rating across the chain is 1.7 of 5. Two of the six homes carry CMS’s lowest overall rating. None is on the Special Focus Facility list and none carries CMS’s abuse icon.

The Prospect, citing a federal inspector general audit and ProPublica, reports that Fischl and Grinspan co-own a Bronx nursing home, Pinnacle Multicare. The audit, HHS Office of Inspector General report A-02-22-01017, found that 99 of 100 sampled claims did not meet Medicare requirements for skilled nursing services provided in calendar years 2020 and 2021, and estimated that Pinnacle received at least $31.2 million in overpayments. (The Prospect’s article gives the years as 2021 and 2022; the inspector general’s summary says 2020 and 2021.) Pinnacle is contesting the audit in court. The audit names the facility, not its owners; the ownership link is the Prospect’s and ProPublica’s reporting, not the audit’s. The Prospect also reports that Kentucky’s attorney general opened an investigation this summer into a death at a Salyersville facility in Rep. Guthrie’s district that it says is owned by the same investor group. That facility is not among the six donors, and this site has not independently verified the ownership.

The committees that oversee nursing homes

Medicaid is the largest payer for nursing-home care. The House Energy and Commerce Committee writes Medicaid law; the Oversight Committee investigates how federal money is spent. Rep. Langworthy serves on both. Reps. Guthrie and Comer chair them. The three men are the three members of Congress on the committee that took the Richmond money.

Both committees have spent 2026 investigating Medicaid fraud. On October 20, Rep. Langworthy posted: “As a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, I’m committed to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. In under a 90 day period, we took swift and decisive action against 50 high-risk Medicaid providers, halting over $203 million in potentially improper payments.” This site rated that post MISLEADING, because the actions were CMS’s, the inspector general’s and the states'.

For this entry the relevant point is narrower. The documents retained for that fact-check, the committee’s March 5 release expanding its fraud investigation to ten states, CMS’s war-room release and fact sheet, and his own press-release index, contain no mention of nursing homes, skilled nursing or long-term care. His office has issued no release on nursing homes in the 70 releases on its index from August 2025 through October 15, 2026. The one documented nursing-home action of his term is a vote for H.R. 1, which blocked the federal minimum-staffing rule for ten years; CMS formally repealed the rule in December 2025.

How this fits what the site has documented

  • $55,000 from Benjamin and Judy Landa, nursing-home operators, to his campaign and joint fundraising committee from 2022 through March 2025, all before the July 3, 2025 vote on H.R. 1 (entry).
  • A pattern of disclosure gaps between donations and the legislation or announcements that followed (entry).
  • 55 cents of every campaign dollar from PACs and at most 17 cents from the district (entry).

The Richmond committee adds $150,800 in nursing-home money, a new set of donors, and a vehicle that did not exist before January and did not exist after April.

The fair reading

Joint fundraising committees are an ordinary tool. Members form them with colleagues and party committees to hold one event and split the proceeds, and they are often dissolved afterward. Contributions from limited-liability companies are lawful when, as here, they are attributed to the individual owners, and the $75,000 and $50,000 gifts are attributed to four partners each. The filings were made on time and in full, which is how this entry was possible.

The amounts, for him, are small: $31,386 to his campaign and PAC against $2.3 million raised this cycle. Two of the six homes are rated four stars, and CMS does not flag any of them for abuse. The donors have every right to give to members whose committees affect their industry, and members of every party take such money. Neither the chairmen’s nor Rep. Langworthy’s Medicaid-fraud work was obliged to focus on nursing homes, and the investigations they have pursued are real.

What the record establishes is the shape of the thing: the committee’s members were the three men whose committees oversee nursing homes, its only donors were nursing-home companies, and it existed for the length of one check-writing day plus the paperwork. The site draws no conclusion about why. It records that it happened, that the six homes’ staffing ratings average under two stars, and that the congressman who took the money has, in the same year, described himself as rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the program that pays those homes, without a public word about them.

Questions this raises

  1. Who organized the March 19 event or solicitation, and was there one? The committee reports no event expenses.
  2. Why were the two nursing-home industry chairmen and the one New York member of both committees the participants, and no one else?
  3. The Energy and Commerce fraud investigation lists provider types it is examining. Are nursing homes among them, and if not, why not, given that they are among Medicaid’s largest line items?
  4. Did his office or the committee receive any communication from the Richmond donors or their representatives in 2026?

Sources

Note: This entry documents publicly available information from Federal Election Commission filings, parsed directly from the raw electronic files, from CMS’s published nursing-home data, and from the committee’s and the congressman’s own statements. The ownership of the Bronx and Salyersville facilities discussed in the Prospect’s reporting is attributed to that reporting and has not been independently verified here. The entry makes no allegation of unlawful conduct by the congressman, the other members, the committee or any donor, and draws no connection between any contribution and any official act. The statement that no nursing-home mention appears in the fraud documents describes the specific documents listed above, and nothing more.

Correction, November 10, 2026: This entry originally said the federal audit found Pinnacle Multicare had been overpaid “in 2021 and 2022,” the years given in the American Prospect’s article. The inspector general’s report covers services provided in calendar years 2020 and 2021. The text now cites the report directly. This entry also linked to a site entry on the Landa network that has not been published; those links were removed.

Last updated: November 10, 2026