Which specific CCAP providers in Minnesota have been criminally convicted and what were the court judgments?
Executive summary
State reporting and court records show that Minnesota has prosecuted multiple Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) providers over the past decade but that convictions have been uneven: some defendants were convicted, some cases ended in hung juries or dismissals, and some defendants remain fugitives, and public sources do not assemble a single, complete list of convicted CCAP providers or the full judgments against them [1]. Available reporting names a small number of individuals tied to CCAP-related prosecutions—Gayre and Osman, Yusuf, and Abdirashid Said—but the record in the public reporting is fragmented and in at least one high‑profile instance a conviction was later overturned [2] [3].
1. What the state audit and court records say about CCAP prosecutions
The Office of the Legislative Auditor reviewed CCAP prosecutions and emphasizes that outcomes varied: “not all charges result in convictions,” with at least one hung jury, one dismissal because a surveillance tape was lost, and two defendants who jumped bail and remain fugitives; most prosecutions focused on padding bills or billing for children not in care [1]. That audit confirms prosecutions occurred across Minnesota and that court records were reviewed but does not publish a consolidated roster of every convicted provider or the detailed judgments entered against them [1].
2. Named providers with reported criminal findings or court sanctions
Local reporting identifies specific cases: Fox9’s retrospective reporting says the court barred “Gayre and Osman” from working in or having ownership in any licensed Minnesota child care provider for two years, a judicial sanction tied to court proceedings in a CCAP fraud investigation [2]. Wikipedia’s compendium of 2020s Minnesota fraud scandals reports that a defendant surnamed “Yusuf” was convicted by a jury in August 2025 on fraud-related charges but that Hennepin County Judge Sarah West later overturned that conviction—an example of how convictions can be reversed on later judicial review [3]. Reporting also ties other PCA/CCAP provider investigations to an individual named Abdirashid Said, who was previously convicted in 2021 of theft by swindle and whose network prompted scrutiny of related provider companies [3]. Each of these named items appears in public reporting but the available snippets do not provide full charging documents, exact plea language, or comprehensive judgment entries [2] [3].
3. What the public court-access tools show—and the reporting gap
Minnesota’s public court systems (MCRO, P-MACS, district court ECF) provide the mechanism to obtain case dockets, judgment searches, and documents necessary to confirm convictions and the precise monetary or custodial judgments entered, but those systems are separate and the Legislative Auditor/press summaries did not attach exhaustive judgment-level lists in the sources provided [4] [5] [6] [7]. The auditor explicitly notes that researchers reviewed court records for CCAP prosecutions but stops short of publishing a full provider-by-provider judgment ledger in the report excerpt provided here [1].
4. How to get definitive answers on convictions and judgments
Because public reporting and summaries leave gaps, the authoritative way to produce a complete list of CCAP providers criminally convicted and the specific court judgments is to run name- and case-based searches in Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO) and the district court ECF and, where necessary, obtain certified judgment documents from local court administration; the state criminal-history system also holds conviction data for 15 years post‑sentence [5] [6] [8]. The Attorney General’s press materials and criminal indictments can identify active prosecutions but—by principle and practice—indictments are allegations until convictions are entered [9].
5. Bottom line: partial answers, not a definitive roster
Public sources confirm that specific providers have faced prosecutions and that at least some providers received court sanctions or convictions (examples: Gayre and Osman’s court ban; Yusuf’s jury conviction later overturned; prior conviction of Abdirashid Said), but the provided reporting does not supply a singular, verifiable, and exhaustive list of all Minnesota CCAP providers who were criminally convicted nor the full text of each court judgment [2] [3] [1]. A definitive, up‑to‑date inventory requires primary-document searches in MCRO, district court dockets, or certified judgment records [5] [6].