Guilty Minnesota Fraudsters Ignored by Biden Admin Prove It: Elections Matter
Voters should ask candidates why, for years, they did nothing to stop fraud.
As the guilty pleas roll in from various Minnesota fraud schemes, we can see how terrible leftist leadership disguised as "helping people" created an atmosphere ripe for fraud.
In U.S. District Court of Minnesota, four men recently pleaded guilty to defrauding the state's Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program out of around $2.2 million. The men, all from the Twin Cities, started Brilliant Minds Services LLC which became a "Medicaid program provider" to administer Minnesota's HHS program. They each face up to 20 years in prison at a future sentencing hearing.
In 2020, Minnesota became the first state to offer Medicaid coverage for housing stabilization. HHS was supposed to help drug addicts, seniors, disabled and mentally ill people find and keep housing, but the program was so riddled with fraud that in 2025, Minnesota shut it down.
Where did the state go wrong?
Trust and Don't Verify
First, Minnesota made it too easy to become a program administrator. Program providers only had to be 18 years old, fill out some paperwork through the Minnesota Department of Human Services, pass a background check, watch about five hours of training videos and presto! You now qualify to assist a homeless, mentally ill person in crises find a home—no medical license or social work training needed.
It is more complicated to open a coffee shop than to become an HHS Medicaid program provider.
Perhaps the easy upstart is what attracted Moktar Hassan Aden, 31, Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27, to start Brilliant Minds Services.
In May 2025, according to the indictment, each man pocketed between $300,000-$400,000 from Brilliant Minds. They all had access to the same bank account, shared a Platinum American Express credit card and racked up almost a half million in charges on "lifestyle" purchases.
Minnesota made it easy for clients to get signed up for service too—just be 18 or older and a Minnesota Medicaid recipient with a "disabling condition," and facing "housing instability."
Recipients were to work with a "program-qualified consultant" to fill out a "Housing Focused Plan" document requiring minimal information and describing the client's challenges and needs. Once completed, the client can officially enroll with a provider like Brilliant Minds Services.
With all the paperwork out of the way, the structure of HHS billing was a breeze. The state only required service providers to submit the names of clients, the type of service offered, and the number of hours worked.
AI Faked Records
The Minnesota HHS program offered providers four ways to earn Medicaid money. They could bill Medicaid $174 for filling out a Housing Focused Plan.
Housing transition services got $68 an hour. Here a provider helps the client "plan for, find, and move into housing," the indictment said. Providers could also offer "housing sustaining services," offering—again with no related training required—"behavioral management." Again, they could bill Medicaid $68 an hour (roughly $141,000 annually at 40 hours a week). The service provider could also charge up to $3,000 for moving expenses.
All this made the program ripe for fraud, the indictment said.
Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed worked with Brilliant Minds and then opened a similar outfit, Foundation First Services LLC. From Sept. 2022-April 2025, Brilliant Minds requested $2.2 million in Medicaid reimbursements, making it one of the 10 highest billing HHS service providers in Minnesota. Foundation First claimed $222,000 in reimbursements. The businesses were located in St. Paul's Griggs-Midway Building, the address of some-22 fraudulent HHS businesses.
Instead of helping people, the four submitted thousands of HSS claims to Medicaid for services that were never provided or significantly inflated the claims for higher reimbursements.
"The defendants, together, signed up approximately 350 people for HSS and then billed the program despite doing nothing to assist these Medicaid recipients," according to a joint statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota and the U.S. Department of Justice Health Care Fraud Strike Force. "When asked to provide supporting documentation for their claims, the defendants fabricated records using ChatGPT in an attempt to conceal their theft. In total, from April 2022 through April 2025, the defendants stole approximately $2.2 million from Minnesota Medicaid for services they fraudulently claimed to have provided to these 350 Medicaid recipients.
Human Nature
The Minnesota State Legislature passed the HHS program and launched it in 2020 through the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) with minimal oversight, ignoring basic human nature: some folks want something for nothing. That's why we don't leave mounds of money in wheelbarrows on our front lawn—some Greedy-Gus is sure to roll it away quicker than three steady heartbeats on a new pacemaker (which Medicaid would pay for) assuming some dumb state policy wonk hasn't ignored obvious signs of fraud and given all the money away.
"Before the program's inaugural year DHS predicted [HHS] would cost about $2.6 million annually. That proved to be inaccurate," the indictment says. "In 2021 alone the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. That figure ballooned in the following years: $42 million in 2022; $74 million in 2023; $104 million in 2024. In just the first six months of 2025, the program paid out another $61 million. A federal investigation revealed that many program providers defrauded the system."
The state treated the program like a never-ending fountain of cash. Former President Joe Biden was predictably asleep on the job. A lot of your money went to fraudsters who didn't deserve it and never got to people who really needed it.
Only after President Donald Trump's administration started looking for fraud did Minnesota decide to address the problem. In 2025 the state ended the HHS program.
Elections are not a frivolous game—results matter. The same way we can't store money on our front lawns, we can't trust the government checkbook in the hands of people who are too lazy, dumb, or cunning to be honest stewards of our hard-earned resources.
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