Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that his office charged three people as part of a scheme to defraud the Minnesota Medical Assistance (Medicaid) program out of nearly $11 million. This is the largest Medicaid fraud prosecution charged by the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU). Abdirashid Ismail Said, the principal actor, is charged with one count of racketeering, eight counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle (over $35,000), and one count of perjury for defrauding the Medicaid program through his operation of three separate Medicaid-funded home healthcare agencies: Faym Health, LCC, Prestige Health, LLC, and Minnesota Home Health Care, LLC. Said’s co-conspirators, Ali Abdirizak Ahmed and Said Awil Ibrahim, are also charged in Hennepin County district court with racketeering and aiding and abetting theft by swindle (over $35,000).
