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Federal prosecutors have charged Asha Farhan Hassan with wire fraud, alleging she used Smart Therapy Center LLC to steal about $14 million from Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral...
Federal and state fraud prosecutions tied to pandemic-era programs have placed Minnesota’s large Somali diaspora at the center of national scrutiny: prosecutors say a substantial share of those charge...
Federal prosecutors have announced indictments tied to multiple Minnesota Medicaid and social-services frauds that disproportionately involve Somali-owned providers; one high-profile defendant, Asha F...
The Minnesota fraud prosecutions have produced dozens of convictions tied to multiple schemes that prosecutors say bilked federal and state social-service programs, with reported conviction totals ran...
Federal and state reporting and prosecutions in 2024–2025 show multiple major fraud investigations in Minnesota that involve Somali individuals or Somali-run clinics: big prosecutions include the Feed...
Federal prosecutors filed the first criminal charge in Minnesota’s autism-treatment fraud probe on Sept. 24, 2025, charging Asha Farhan Hassan with wire fraud tied to an alleged $14 million scheme tha...
Minnesota law enforcement and federal prosecutors have pursued a large, multi-year enforcement effort targeting schemes that allegedly bilked state and federal social‑services programs—resulting in nu...
Defense attorneys named in reporting on the Minnesota Somali fraud prosecutions include Ryan Pacyga, who represented Asha Farhan Hassan and argued she entered social-services work with good intentions...
A growing roster of named defendants in the Feeding Our Future investigation have been convicted either at trial or via guilty pleas; the most prominent convictions include founder Aimee Bock and co-d...
Public records and federal press releases show substantial but not fully consistent counts for the major Minnesota fraud probes: Feeding Our Future has been the subject of large multi-defendant indict...
Minnesota has been the focus of multiple large federal fraud investigations centered on pandemic-era programs and state-administered services, most prominently the Feeding Our Future pandemic meal pro...
Federal and local reporting shows dozens of people of Somali descent have been charged in Minnesota’s sprawling social‑services fraud probe, but the available sources name very few individual “communi...
Federal prosecutors say members of a Somali-linked network in Minnesota recruited parents and children into sham programs — opening hundreds of fake nutrition sites and persuading parents to enroll ch...
Available reporting does not provide a single, statewide statistic for the proportion of Medicaid fraud defendants in Minnesota from 2015–2025 who identified as Somali or spoke Somali as a primary lan...
Court reporting and official press releases in the available sources name multiple Minnesota Medicaid fraud prosecutions tied to providers serving Somali communities, but only one source in the datase...
Federal and local reporting shows an active criminal investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud involving autism therapy providers in Minnesota that began with FBI raids in December 2024 and produced t...
Minnesota providers who submit false claims for autism services face federal criminal charges (for example wire fraud) and civil enforcement including recoupment of millions in alleged fraudulent reim...