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Somali Responsible for Largest Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Case Goes On the Run
FrontPage Magazine ^ | April 11 2026 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 04/11/2026 5:10:27 AM PDT by texas booster

Abdirashid Ismail Said was the centerpiece of Attorney General Keith X. Ellison’s attempt to pretend that he was also being tough on Somali fraud.

Since Said had already been convicted of Medicaid fraud in 2022, he should never have been allowed to bill Medicaid for anything. And once he was charged, he should never have been released on bail.

But he was and did and now he’s on the run, and we’re all supposed to pretend that Ellison tried really hard and just couldn’t figure things out.

The Minnesota Attorney General announced in December 2023 that Said is responsible for the largest-ever Medicaid fraud case charged by the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Said is accused of racketeering, perjury and several counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle.

Investigators say Said defrauded the state’s Medicaid program through his operation of three Medicaid-funded home health care agencies: Faym Health, Prestige Health and Minnesota Home Health Care.

Two others involved in the alleged scheme, Ali Abdirizak Ahmed and Said Awil Ibrahim, were each charged with racketeering and aiding and abetting theft by swindle.

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
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Now you see him, now he’s back in Somalia.

Authorities are searching for a man accused of being the “principal actor” in a Medicaid fraud scheme that defrauded Minnesota taxpayers out of nearly $11 million after he failed to appear in court.

Why would a man who had a family in Kenya (many Somali refugee camps are based there) ever have gotten bail at all? Same reason he was able to keep on charging Medicaid.

1 posted on 04/11/2026 5:10:27 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

The Minnesota Attorney General announced in December 2023 that Said is responsible for the largest-ever Medicaid fraud case charged by the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

And why would the MN AG Ellison take so long to act? Can't bite the hand that feeds you ...

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2 posted on 04/11/2026 5:12:18 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

I’d say.... CHECK Attorney General Keith Ellison’s bank accounts!


3 posted on 04/11/2026 5:17:18 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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4 posted on 04/11/2026 5:20:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: texas booster

Send in the Dawg


5 posted on 04/11/2026 5:28:13 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (... )
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To: texas booster

Has a “Wanted Dead or Alive” poster offering a reward been put out yet?!?


6 posted on 04/11/2026 5:43:37 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again)
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To: texas booster

Boy, this is convenient. Now he’s not around to cut a deal by informing on who he may have given a chunk of the money to.


7 posted on 04/11/2026 5:50:21 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

I think we have some military y near by. Pick him up.


8 posted on 04/11/2026 5:56:39 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: texas booster
Somali "responsible"?

Well sure he's a criminal, but it was the Democrats who set him up in business.

9 posted on 04/11/2026 5:58:51 AM PDT by Salman (Trump needs to go full Pinochet.)
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To: texas booster

Walz even bought him the ticket.


10 posted on 04/11/2026 6:05:37 AM PDT by OKSooner (Susie might be Rasputin.)
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To: texas booster
texas booster posted: "Authorities are searching for the “principal actor” in Medicaid fraud that defrauded Minnesota taxpayers of nearly $11M ......after he "failed" to appear in court. Q. How could a man w/ a family in Kenya (many Somali refugee camps are based there) have gotten bail at all? A. Same reason he was able to defraud Medicaid of millions.

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Looks like Somali thieves have the Minn govt at its disposal.

11 posted on 04/11/2026 6:21:54 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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Thieving Somali Abdirashid Said is charged with 10 felonies from his $11M Medicaid theft, including perjury. He donated $1,000 to Ilhan Omar’s first campaign for the state House of Representatives. He gave the maximum amount, $1,000, to her campaign on 11/18/2015.

12 posted on 04/11/2026 6:30:47 AM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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To: texas booster

“...Now you see him, now he’s back in Somalia....”

Yeah, with millions of our hard-earned tax dollars that they want us to keep account of right down to the penny.
ALL brought to America by the Communist Party USA!! Oh, and be sure to thank em when ya see em, especially at the voting booth. Spit.


13 posted on 04/11/2026 6:34:06 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: texas booster

Appears to me there has been a trillion dollars stolen from tax payers in the US since Birdbrain Biden assumed the throne and we will be lucky if even 10 percent of that is recovered and the perpetrators brought to justice.


14 posted on 04/11/2026 6:52:47 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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he's a criminal, but it was the Democrats who set him up in business

Wait. Are you saying that the demonRAT party is the longest running, most nefarious ongoing criminal enterprise in all of recorded history? NOOOOO! SAY IT ISN'T SOOOO!

(False suprise=off)

15 posted on 04/11/2026 7:14:35 AM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: texas booster
MN AG Keith X. Ellison: "I thought you were going to get him to surrender his passport."

MN Asst AG: "No, I thought YOU were going to get him to surrender his passport."

Both: "Oopsie! Ha, ha, ha. Oh well. Maybe next time."

16 posted on 04/11/2026 7:37:21 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: texas booster
Read in the media that he's a "Minnesota Man."

Keith Ellison finally prosecutes a major fraud case and lets the guy keep his passport so he can flee the country.

The money was already sent to Somalia so he can now live like a King thanks to US taxpayers.

C4-DA8849-77-DE-42-B4-81-C5-4-BFA1-F768007

17 posted on 04/11/2026 8:09:32 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: texas booster

Smells like an inside job.


18 posted on 04/11/2026 8:32:12 AM PDT by oldbrowser ( don't listen to the peddlers)
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