Kelly Bauer
bauerjournalism.bsky.social
Kelly Bauer
@bauerjournalism.bsky.social
Block Club Chicago senior editor.
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BREAKING: Fugitive Ex-Loretto Leader At Center Of $300 Million COVID Scandal Arrested In Serbia

The U.S. government has requested his extradition.

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Fugitive Ex-Loretto Leader At Center Of $300 Million COVID Scandal Arrested In Serbia
Ahmed had been living abroad in Dubai — with federal prosecutors calling him a "fugitive" — since shortly before prosecutors brought charges against him in the Loretto Hospital case.
blockclubchicago.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
We've been quietly at work, taking a look back at how Operation Midway Blitz changed Chicago and what happened after hundreds of federal agents detained immigrants. Unlike what the feds claimed, over 60% of those arrested did not have criminal charges.

READ:

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...
Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
Federal agents arrested thousands during an unprecedented immigration mission in Chicago. They also killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized p...
blockclubchicago.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
Block Club reporters were there every day as immigration agents teargassed, shot, violently arrested & separated Chicagoans from their families.

Bolstered by hours of video analysis & hundreds of documents, "Chicago Under Siege" is the record of what happened.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...
Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
Federal agents arrested thousands during an unprecedented immigration mission in Chicago. They also killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized p...
blockclubchicago.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
For the definitive account of the federal government's invasion of Chicago this year, you have got to read
@blockclubchi.bsky.social 's year-end project that went up today. The accounts, the photos, the reporting — I am so proud of this team, I have no words.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/30/c...
Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
Federal agents arrested thousands during an unprecedented immigration mission in Chicago. They also killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized p...
blockclubchicago.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
This impressive report by Block Club Chicago details Homeland Security's violent campaign to round up brown people and attack protesters and journalists in Chicago. The report is straight journalism, not opinion. This is what it looks like when a criminal government terrorizes its citizens.
Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
Federal agents arrested thousands during an unprecedented immigration mission in Chicago. They also killed a man, shot a woman five times, tear-gassed a 1-year-old, separated families and brutalized p...
blockclubchicago.org
December 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
NEW: Our project, “Chicago Under Siege,” documents the fear people lived in, the ways they sought to organize and resist and the heartbreak they experienced under Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchi.co/3Ye4GGa
December 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
How the feds used propaganda to frame their "war" on Chicago: "They’re lying constantly." blockclubchi.co/4iFGlm7
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
NEW: The flashy fugitives: The ex-Loretto Hospital leader and his pal accused of stealing millions are living large in Dubai.

@bauerjournalism.bsky.social reports: blockclubchi.co/4lFyENc
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The flashy fugitives: Anosh Ahmed are Sameer Suhail are accused of stealing millions from Loretto Hospital.

But they're living abroad in Dubai. Ahmed is starting a podcast & appealing to Trump, and Suhail started a luxe plastic surgery clinic.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/22/t...
The Flashy Fugitives: Ex-Loretto Leader And Pal Accused Of Stealing Millions Are Living Large In Dubai
Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail could face years in prison in the United States — but they’ve fled abroad, court records show. Suhail has opened a luxe plastic surgery clinic, while Ahmed is making appe...
blockclubchicago.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Kelly Bauer
These new charges come after former Loretto COO Anosh Ahmed had previously been charged w/ stealing millions from the safety-net hospital after @blockclubchi.bsky.social's reporting led to his resignation + subsequent FBI investigations.

S/O @bauerjournalism.bsky.social
BREAKING: An ex-Loretto Hospital executive has been charged with stealing $300 million through COVID testing schemes, prosecutors said. blockclubchi.co/4mXRNem
June 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
BREAKING: Ex-Loretto Hospital exec Anosh Ahmed stole $300 million from the gov't through COVID-19 testing schemes, prosecutors say.

Ahmed took information about Loretto's patients and used that to submit fake COVID-19 testing claims, feds say.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/17/e...
Ex-Loretto Hospital Exec Stole $300 Million Through COVID Testing Schemes: Prosecutors
Former Loretto COO Anosh Ahmed took information about Loretto patients and used it to submit fake COVID-19 testing claims, trying to get $900 million from the government, prosecutors say.
blockclubchicago.org
June 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM