Posted on 12/01/2025 9:29:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A Minnesota judge is under scrutiny for overturning a $7.2 million fraud conviction of a couple who were found guilty of misappropriating Medicaid funds to support their “lavish lifestyle” of fancy cars and designer duds.
Abdifatah Yusuf, 44, was charged in June 2024 and found guilty in August 2025 after he and his wife were accused of stealing millions from Minnesota’s Medicaid program while running a healthcare business out of their home, according to a release from the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office.
Yusuf was found guilty of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle by a jury, but Judge Sarah West overturned the conviction in mid-November, KARE reported.
West was appointed by Gov. Tim Walz’s predecessor, Mark Dayton, in July 2018, according to an archived release by the governor.
The judge wrote that her choice to overturn the case “relied heavily on circumstantial evidence” and asserted that the state didn’t rule out other possible “reasonable interferences,” KARE reported.
West did highlight that she was still “troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated” at the couple’s defunct practice, despite tossing out the conviction.
Yusuf and his 41-year-old wife Lul Ahmed operated their business for “years out of a mailbox,” but the husband was using Medicaid money behind-the-scenes to fund their “lavish lifestyle,” the attorney general’s office said.
The couple frequently went on shopping sprees at “luxury clothing stores,” ranging from Coach to Nike.
Yusuf funneled more than $1 million from their business to his personal account and withdrew over $387,000 in cash, according to the release.
Many Minnesotans, including members of the case’s jury, were appalled by West’s decision to overturn the convictions.
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The legal problem wasn’t proving the fraud; it was proving the owner knew about it.
The evidence showed that the owner’s brother was the one actually handling those charts and running the office. Because the owner wasn’t the one touching the paperwork, he was able to claim he was just a “passive investor” who didn’t know his brother was cooking the books. This is where the State’s failure to hire a forensic accountant saved him. Since they couldn’t catch him on the paperwork, they needed an expert to testify that the amount of money he pocketed was mathematically impossible for a legitimate business. Without that expert testimony to prove he must have known the money was dirty, the Judge had to accept his “I didn’t know” defense, even though it smells terrible to anyone who works in the industry. “
Yes, in her ruling she admitted that the fraud was there, but overturned the jury anyway.
Yep, woke Karen overturned a clear verdict.
I hope Tampon Tim gets nabbed for allowing this fraud to happen
A Minnesota judge is under scrutiny?? WHY NOT FEDERAL CHARGES
So based on the theory you present, all the scams run by Humper Biden, and all the funds sent to the remainder of the Biden crime family, suggest Joe Biddn is innocent of any corruption because he has dementia and can’t rember what Humper was doing with all that money.
I guess this is a case where being brain damaged morons like Biden and Walz will pay off.
Somalis tried to bribe a juror in the fake food scam. No doubt they bribed or blackmailed this air head judge. John Gotti would be proud of her.
Minnesota judge sounds like one from the Ukraine?.
THERE IS TIME TO DO THAT
The bigger question is, how much and who paid her to overturn a jury decision?
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