There are estimates that health services frauds in Minnesota, centered around the immigrant Somali community there, could have cost taxpayer billions of dollars.
Another case that was just announced appears to support that concern.
This time it’s two Somali women who are accused of various fraud counts for allegedly stealing $21 million from taxpayers in a fraud scheme. Some of the lucre apparently was sent overseas, authorities said.
A report at Just the News said Shamso Ahmed Hassan and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf have been accused of eight counts of health care fraud and two counts of money laundering following an investigation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
Authorities say that Hassan owned Smart Therapy Center LLC and Star Autism Center LLC and through them the women defrauded a health care benefit program of approximately $21.1 million by submitting false claims to Medicaid.
“Their Medicaid fraud scheme started during the COVID pandemic and lasted for four years. ICE continues to zero in on the rampant fraud in Minnesota. Under [Department of Homeland] Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin, we will end the defrauding of the American people,” Acting Assistant Sec. Lauren Bis confirmed.
⚖️ Two Minnesota Residents Arrested in $21 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme.
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BREAKING: Federal officials arrested two Somali women, Shamso Ahmed Hassan and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, for embezzling more than $21 million through a massive Medicaid autism therapy fraud scheme in Minnesota.
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A report from the Gateway Pundit said the two “Muslim women” ran a “brazen scheme targeting the state’s autism services program.”
They submitted claims to the Minnesota Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program — a Medicaid-funded service for children with autism — and pocketed approximately $21.1 million in taxpayer money for services that were never provided, the report said.
The report said they are accused of paying kickbacks to parents in order to use their children’s names to submit claims, and they billed for services that never were provided for children who didn’t qualify.
Another fraud in Minnesota, involving the Feeding Our Future scandal, allegedly involved some $250 million in fraud, and already has generated dozens of convictions of individuals involved. A chief schemer in that plan recently was sentenced to 41 years behind bars.
