Four Twin Cities men admitted to looting more than $2.2 million from a Minnesota Medicaid program meant to house the homeless and disabled, then used artificial intelligence to fake the paperwork when insurers asked questions.
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas Friday, naming Moktar Hassan Aden, 31, Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27, as co-owners of a company called Brilliant Minds Services LLC. The firm operated out of the Griggs-Midway Building in St. Paul and billed Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, a Medicaid-funded effort designed to help people with disabilities and addictions find and keep housing, for work it never performed.
Court documents show Brilliant Minds claimed to serve roughly 350 beneficiaries and submitted $2,253,385.06 in claims. But the company did not deliver all the services it billed for. Where work was actually done, employees inflated the hours. Where no work was done at all, employees simply fabricated client notes to make it look like they had.
When insurance companies started asking questions, the defendants turned to AI tools to generate fake records. The DOJ called the scheme part of “a burgeoning trend of fraudsters” using artificial intelligence to target health care programs “in Minnesota and around the country.”