MONROVIA, Liberia, Aug. 18 -- No federal or state authority has accused Sekou Dukuly of fraud, and that fact, he and his associates argue, has been overshadowed in a recent NPR/MPR News investigation into his Minnesota group home businesses.

Dukuly, the Liberian port director whose companies were the subject of the investigation, is disputing key elements of the story, arguing it conflates his role as a business owner with operational failures at facilities he says he did not personally run day-to-day - while neither the Minnesota Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, nor federal prosecutors have filed fraud charges against him or accused him personally of falsifying Medicaid claims.

Dukuly declined an interview reques...