Nepal, June 4 -- If you have been on Nepali social media recently, you may have seen images of a young man on a private jet, captioning his posts "Welcome Aboard AIR ROSHAN." He poses alongside Range Rovers and Corvette, sipping champagne, and marvelling that a kid born in Nepal had made it to the skies. The posts are aspirational, even celebratory, the kind of content that travels fast across communities in Nepal and the diaspora.

Now they are evidence in a political firestorm in the United States of America.

Roshan Adhikari, the man seen in the Instagram posts, is the chief operating officer of a Cleveland home health company that bills the United States government's Medicaid program. Now a conservative American media outlet has made ...