It’s clear the political authorities in Minnesota don’t want transparency or an end to the widespread fraud that’s infected government programs, including the state’s Medicaid program. The problem is bad enough that the state paused payments to 14 programs on October 31, pending an investigation.
One of those providers was Ultimate Home Health Services LLC, owned by Othman Mohamed. It billed the state for $462 in services daily — services it never provided, leading to the death of at least one vulnerable man.
We also learned on November 21 that, thanks to this fraud (and the fraud in housing and food programs), Minnesota taxpayers are now the largest sponsors of the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab. Right before Thanksgiving, a judge threw out a jury’s guilty verdict for Abdifatha Yusuf and his wife. The jury found the Yusufs guilty of stealing $7.2 million from Minnesota taxpayers after a short deliberation.
So now that Minnesota is refusing to release information about the Medicaid providers accused of fraud, we have to ask: are they protecting Somalis?