Which specific Minnesota programs and providers have been charged or convicted in federal fraud cases?
Executive summary
A series of federal and state-federal investigations since 2022 has produced dozens of charges and multiple convictions tied to Minnesota programs that receive federal Medicaid and other social-services dollars; the headline programs implicated include Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI/autism services), child‑care and feeding programs, and individual Medicaid provider operations, with named providers and principals charged in recent indictments [1] [2] [3] [4]. Reporting and official releases identify specific companies and principals charged in HSS cases and name at least one Minneapolis home‑health operator charged for defrauding Medicaid, while other large prosecutions (including Feeding Our Future) produced multiple federal indictments and convictions [1] [2] [4] [3].
1. Federal criminal indictments in the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program
Federal prosecutors opened sweeping HSS fraud cases that allege “industrial‑scale” billing for services never delivered, with an initial federal press release charging eight defendants with wire fraud tied to the HSS program and subsequent indictments expanding the roster of charged principals [1]. The Minnesota Attorney General’s office specifically identified owners and principals accused in the HSS indictments, including Hassan Ahmed Hussein and Ahmed Abdirashim Mohamed of Pristine Health LLC, Kaamil Omar Sallah of SafeLodgings Inc., and owners tied to Chozen Runner LLC and Retsel Real Estate LLC — Anthony Waddell Jefferson and Lester Brown — among others named in the joint state‑federal actions [2] [1].
2. Named providers charged in autism‑treatment and EIDBI cases
Federal prosecutors have also targeted providers billing Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) autism services, with reporting noting at least one individual charged in the autism program and the Attorney General describing separate indictments related to EIDBI alongside HSS prosecutions [5] [2]. The Minnesota Reformer and Justice Department materials confirm federal authorities charged individuals connected to alleged fraud in the autism‑treatment program, though the public summaries in the provided reporting do not list every provider name tied to those particular EIDBI charges [5] [2].
3. Feeding Our Future, Aimee Bock, and child‑feeding/child‑care prosecutions
The high‑profile Feeding Our Future prosecution — alleging false claims for pandemic meal programs — spawned numerous federal charges beginning in 2022 and produced convictions, including against founder Aimee Bock on seven federal counts, and has been central to broader federal scrutiny and freezes of federal child‑care dollars to Minnesota [3] [6]. Federal and congressional reporting emphasizes that dozens of people were charged in related fraud schemes affecting programs intended to feed children and provide child care, and those cases have driven federal moves such as HHS payment freezes and oversight hearings [3] [6] [7].
4. Individual Medicaid provider case: Guardian Home Health Services
State prosecutors in January 2026 charged Mohamed Abdirashid Omarxeyd with eight counts of felony theft by false representation for allegedly using his Minneapolis‑based agency, Guardian Home Health Services, to steal over $3 million from Minnesota Medical Assistance (Medicaid), an action announced by the Minnesota Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit [4]. That state filing underscores how both state MFCU work and federal partnerships have been used to pursue individual provider fraud alongside larger, multi‑defendant federal indictments [4].
5. Scope, contested totals, and reporting limitations
Federal officials and congressional leaders cite staggering aggregate estimates — up to $9 billion alleged in some oversight statements — and DOJ reporting places dozens to nearly a hundred defendants in the wider Minnesota fraud investigations, but those totals combine multiple programs, waves of indictments, and both state and federal cases and are politically contested in public reporting [7] [5] [8]. The sources provided name specific charged entities and principals in HSS (Pristine Health LLC, SafeLodgings Inc., Chozen Runner LLC, Retsel Real Estate LLC) and identify Guardian Home Health Services and Feeding Our Future/Aimee Bock as concrete examples of providers charged or convicted [2] [1] [4] [3], while noting that many other indictments and convictions are summarized in aggregate without full provider lists in the cited materials [5] [7].