Sayduzzaman, a Democrat, was elected in November 2025 as treasurer of Upper Darby Township, the sixth-largest municipality<\/a> in Pennsylvania, which sits on the eastern edge of Delaware County and borders Philadelphia. He was sworn in Jan. 5. He resigned<\/a> at the end of July, less than seven months later, citing New Hope Home Care in his resignation letter.<\/p>\n His exit followed a pair of Broad + Liberty reports: in May<\/a>, that his required financial disclosure omitted business interests and a federal tax lien; and in July<\/a>, that a corrected filing dated June 6 listed eight business interests, and that a party center in which his wife is listed as president carried 19 township tax liens totaling $43,933.<\/p>\n Records obtained since then turn to the company he pointed to on his way out. They do not show that New Hope billed improperly, and no agency has said so. But more than tenfold growth in five years, alongside a township that can\u2019t find a registration for the company and federal tax liens against all three shareholders it lists with the state, raise serious questions.<\/p>\n The Medicaid numbers<\/p>\n The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services provided data<\/a>, in response to a Right-to-Know request, showing payments by Medicaid managed care organizations to New Hope Home Care Inc., the Upper Darby agency listed on Sayduzzaman\u2019s ethics filing. The records show payments of:<\/p>\n about $2.3 million in 2020<\/p>\n $4.4 million in 2021<\/p>\n $8.6 million in 2022<\/p>\n $13.2 million in 2023<\/p>\n $19.4 million in 2024<\/p>\n $24.4 million in 2025<\/p>\n $12.6 million in the first half of 2026<\/p>\n That is about $84.8 million in total. DHS noted that first-half 2026 data may be incomplete because of reporting lags. This data, like the township records cited below, was obtained through Right-to-Know requests filed by an Upper Darby resident keeping an eye on the township\u2019s business.\u00a0<\/p>\n New Hope\u2019s payments come almost entirely from one type of service: agency-directed personal assistance, in which aides help people with daily living and the company bills Medicaid managed care plans for the hours they work. The state\u2019s records show no fee-for-service claims for the company.<\/p>\n On Aug. 18, the company\u2019s Facebook page posted a cover image that reads, \u201cYou can take care of your loved ones and get paid,\u201d and lists its 802 Garrett Road address and a phone number.<\/p>\n Pennsylvania\u2019s home and community-based programs allow family members to be paid caregivers, according to a state legislative committee, and the arrangement is not illegal. But a 2018 paper<\/a> from the federal Medicaid Integrity Institute listed \u201cfamily and\/or live-in caregivers failing to provide the full complement of paid services\u201d among the program\u2019s vulnerabilities, and noted that missing documentation prevents investigators from determining whether services occurred.<\/p>\n Federal and state prosecutors in Philadelphia charged 18 people in August with billing Medicaid for home care visits that did not happen, and the U.S. attorney said the state\u2019s electronic visit verification system \u201cwas not sufficient to prevent people from scheming the system,\u201d the Philadelphia Inquirer reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Who runs New Hope<\/p>\n In his July 13 resignation letter<\/a>, Sayduzzaman wrote that he was resigning to \u201cdevote my full time and attention to my business,\u201d New Hope Home Care Inc., which he described as providing in-home care to elderly and infirm people. He said the decision was made solely to focus on the \u201ccontinued growth and operation\u201d of the company.<\/p>\n Yet Sayduzzaman\u2019s corrected financial disclosure<\/a>, dated June 6, shows he transferred New Hope Home Care to his wife, Tanzina Hossain. He has said he still runs it. \u201cI am handling the home care business,\u201d he told<\/a> Broad + Liberty, \u201cand my partner\u2019s wife is managing the home care business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He has also said New Hope is the only one of his businesses that is profitable, that it has 600 to 700 caregivers<\/a>, that it bills Medicaid, state agencies and insurers, and that those payers audit it annually.<\/p>\n In an application<\/a> to the state Public Utility Commission to run a paratransit service, signed Jan. 5 by Sayduzzaman as president, New Hope Home Care lists Sayduzzaman as a 50% shareholder, Kutubul Alam as a 10% shareholder and Mst Hosneara as a 40% shareholder. That filing predates the June 6 disclosure, and Hossain is not among the three. State records list<\/a> Alam as president of Live Comfort Home Care.<\/p>\n Public filings show New Hope Home Care sits inside a web<\/a> of related companies that share addresses, officers and, occasionally, money. A balance sheet filed with that application, dated July 31, 2025, shows New Hope holding about $1.0 million in loans to New Hope Property LLC, which Hossain co-owns, and about $1.5 million in loans to other entities. It also lists loans to Live Comfort Home Care, 3 Kelly Drive LLC and Sheba Home Care. Broad + Liberty previously reported, citing business records, a $1.4 million loan from New Hope Home Care to the property company, which bought the former Buick building at 600 Garrett Road for $1.3 million in January.<\/p>\n Upper Darby says it has no business registration or license on file for the company. In a sworn statement<\/a> filed Oct. 13 in an appeal before the state Office of Open Records, township Chief Administrative Officer Crandall Jones said staff searched township files and eCollect+, the vendor that handles its business registrations, and found no license-type record for 802 Garrett Rd.<\/p>\n The township did find 2026 registrations<\/a> for other home care agencies, including CareFirst Home Health and CareFirst Nursing, which appear in the same state data as providers of comparable size. The township has not said whether New Hope paid the business privilege tax. It says records of such payments, if they exist, would be exempt from disclosure.<\/p>\n Sayduzzaman\u2019s 2024 financial disclosure<\/a> to the township lists only New Hope Home Care, even though state records show him as an officer<\/a> of other companies, including Blue Horizon International LLC.<\/p>\n How New Hope compares<\/p>\n To put that growth in context, Broad + Liberty compared New Hope with the other agencies named in the same DHS records, which are paid almost entirely for the same agency-directed personal assistance service. From 2020 to 2025, managed care payments to:<\/p>\n New Hope Home Care rose from $2.3 million to $24.4 million, an increase of about 980%<\/p>\n CareFirst Home Health rose from $13.4 million to $33.2 million, up about 150%<\/p>\n Quality Angels Home Care Agency rose from $3.1 million to $6.3 million, up about 100%<\/p>\n Patriot Home Care rose from $132.8 million to $158.8 million, up about 20%<\/p>\n Vital Support Home Health Care Agency rose from $65.8 million to $69.5 million, up about 6%<\/p>\n CareFirst Nursing fell from $21.1 million to $14.1 million, down about a third<\/p>\n New Hope\u2019s growth rate was the fastest of the group, though it started from the smallest base among the group. In dollar terms, Patriot and CareFirst Home Health added comparable or larger amounts over the same period.<\/p>\n Broad + Liberty sent written questions on Oct. 12 to Sayduzzaman\u2019s attorney, with copies to email addresses for Sayduzzaman and the company, asking, among other things:<\/p>\n Whether New Hope or any related company registered for and paid Upper Darby\u2019s business tax<\/p>\n What percentage of New Hope\u2019s caregivers are relatives of the clients they care for, and how the company verifies their hours<\/p>\n What the loans among New Hope, Live Comfort, Sheba Home Care, 3 Kelly Drive LLC and New Hope Property were for, and whether they have been repaid<\/p>\n Who owns Live Comfort, and what Hossain\u2019s role is<\/p>\n Broad + Liberty also left voicemails for Sayduzzaman and Alam. None of them responded by the Oct. 15 deadline. A request for comment sent to Upper Darby on Oct. 13 went unanswered by its Oct. 16 deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A home care company that former Upper Darby treasurer Mohammed \u201cDanny\u201d Sayduzzaman has described as the only one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[57379,212,2258,10716,3831,7939,127064,2311,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-310458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-bl-investigates","tag-delaware-county","tag-democrats","tag-fraud","tag-health-care","tag-medicaid","tag-mohammed-sayduzzaman","tag-must-read","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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