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The Justice Department accused two men of stealing $120 million from federal health care programs over the course of a decade by bribing patients to enroll in social adult day cares and submit unneeded prescriptions to a pharmacy. Inwoo Kim, 42, and Daniel Lee, 56, were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They each face up to 10 years in prison. “Today’s complaint targets those who prey upon the vulnerable so they can steal from American taxpayers and defraud government programs meant to help the public,” A. Tysen Duva, who leads the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in...

Two years ago, Zakia Khan and her son Ahsan Ijaz hosted an NYPD promotion ceremony for the first Pakistani inspector in the New York City police department. After an Imam recited a prayer and everyone, including NYPD personnel, rose and put their hands on their hearts for the Pakistani national anthem, hailing Pakistan as the ‘citadel of Islam’ in the “shadow of Allah.” Last year, Khan pleaded guilty to a $68 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving her adult day care centers, which had been the sponsors of the NYPD event, and earlier this year more members of the Muslim fraud...

Two Brooklyn marketers plead guilty in federal court to taking part in a wide-ranging Medicaid fraud scheme that prosecutors say relied on illegal kickbacks, sham billing, and money laundering connected to two social adult day care centers and a home health care company. Manal Wasef, 46, and Elaine Antao, 46, both of Brooklyn, were admitted to conspiring to commit health care fraud after investigators concluded they helped steer Medicaid recipients to specific providers in exchange for bribes and other illicit payments. Authorities allege the operation resulted in more than $68 million in Medicaid billings for services that were not provided....

Police arrested a woman who had worked for three weeks at the Rocking Horse Ranch childcare center in the death of 11-month-old Harvey Muklebust. Theah Loudemia Russell, 18, is in custody and expected to be charged soon for second-degree unintentional murder, Savage Police Chief Brady Juell and Scott County Attorney Ron Hocevar said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference at Savage City Hall. Following months of investigation, Russell admitted to suffocating the child, which resulted in his death, Juell said. Russell also faces several counts of first degree assault for attempting the same on another infant at the daycare center...

Former first lady Jill Biden went to Minnesota in 2022 to highlight the billions of dollars in investments for childcare that were part of Democrats' American Rescue Plan Act, where she stood next to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and praised him for his leadership helping families. "We helped states like Minnesota safely keep open childcare centers and family childcare providers and boost pay for their workers," Biden said during a February 2022 visit to the University of Minnesota's Child Development Laboratory School alongside Walz and then-Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. "We supported high quality providers that enrich children's...

Trump’s “Sweet Learing Center O’ Mine” Guns N’ Roses Parody - Minnesota Somali Fraud Exposed! Lyrics on link. You'll love the ending of the music video

You know how the Somali childcare fraud has been a big thing, kind of an open secret in Minnesota for years now? Well, not only has this been happening for at least a decade, but, according to this report, the state has known about it for at least that long. Check out these receipts from Maze on X detailing a nine-year-old investigation into the fraud at Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program -- an investigation that went nowhere. The Minnesota child care fraud saga is so strange because years ago it was fully investigated, documented, and reported on by a team...

A Minneapolis child care center with a history of safety violations is being investigated by federal and state authorities for possible financial fraud. The FBI and the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at Salama Child Care Center at 1411 Nicollet Av. near downtown Minneapolis. Families of children at the facility were turned away for a time as authorities from both agencies carried out computers, boxes and folders of documents to waiting vans. Officials from DHS, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis all declined to comment on the nature of the...

The Trump administration moved to end a Biden-era rule on Monday it said created a fraud-friendly environment for daycare providers seeking federal funds. The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that will reverse regulations that required agencies to distribute government funds to daycare providers based on enrollment, not attendance, and before any care was delivered. HHS said the rule opened up the door for widespread fraud, including the kind currently under investigation in Minnesota. “Congress appropriated this funding to support working families and ensure children have safe places to grow and learn,” said HHS Secretary Robert...

Reports have surfaced that U.S. Capitol Police Captain Michael Byrd and his wife, Kaleska, have been operating an "unaccredited" daycare center from their Maryland home since 2008, sparking a firestorm on social media. Byrd, of course, is the officer who fatally shot unarmed January 6 protester Ashli Babbitt without warning. Investigative journalist Paul Sperry kicked off the controversy by noting details about "Byrd's Family Day Care," a home-based child care facility in Brandywine, Maryland. "Records show US Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd, who fatally shot unarmed J6 protester Ashli Babbitt (without) warning, has been running an unaccredited day-care center (with)...

I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati. HHS has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud. More to come. @HHSGov

SUBMITTED: Minneapolis Craigslist post in search of child actors for daycare site where funding was “cruelly ripped away without cause.” “To help hurry this state vetting process, we are looking to hire 20 child actors for 3 days while state is present on site.” $1,500/day Link to post ⬇️ https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/lab/d/minneapolis-daycare-hiring-child-actors/7905967005.html

Gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) went on MSNOW's All In program and called outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom "a pansy for neglecting to use the full powers available to curb ICE enforcement activities in our state. You have immense powers as governor of California and it's your responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in the state. So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants, what I'm going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification. And if they commit crimes that they're going...

Minnesota child care centers at the center of widespread fraud allegations fueled by a viral video were operating as expected when visited by investigators, the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said in a news release Friday. “Children were present at all sites except for one – that site, was not yet open for families for the day when inspectors arrived,” the agency said. The agency gathered evidence and initiated further review, noting the investigation into four centers was ongoing, the report stated. The report comes days after YouTube content creator Nick Shirley, who has created anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim...

Minnesota officials have less than one week to provide the Trump administration with information about providers and parents who receive federal child care funds or risk losing potentially millions of dollars in federal funding, state officials said Friday. In an email sent Friday to child care providers shared with The Associated Press by a number of providers, Minnesota's Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it has until Jan. 9 to provide a set of verifying information about recipients. The announcement earlier this week by the Trump administration that it would freeze child care funds to Minnesota and the rest...

🚨🇺🇸 SISTERS MAKE $774K A YEAR BABYSITTING EACH OTHER’S KIDS ON TAXPAYER DIME IN WASHINGTON Two sisters in Washington figured out how to turn childcare into a full-time payday. All they had to do was babysit each other’s kids and call it a business. They both signed up as in-home daycare providers. Then, each claimed the other as their client. The state pays up to $33 an hour per child. So one watches 4 kids, the other watches 4, and suddenly they’re pulling in nearly $387K each. All funded by the public. Calling this anything other than legalized fraud is...

A federal effort to throw about $40 billion in taxpayer cash at semiconductor manufacturers is now going to double as a backdoor effort at expanding federal subsidies for child care. According to The New York Times, the Commerce Department is set to unveil new rules on Tuesday that will effectively force recipients of the new federal semiconductor subsidies to "guarantee affordable, high-quality child care for workers who build or operate a plant." The Times reports that the new rules will not specify how recipients use the funding, though it could include everything from "building company child-care centers near construction sites...

🚨HOLY CRAP🚨 My jaw is on the floor… Aimee Bock, the ringleader of the Feeding Our Future COVID fraud scheme, is listed as the contact for at least FORTY SEVEN taxpayer-funded "child cares" in Minnesota, according to an official state database. These locations must be investigated for potential further fraud @TheJusticeDept

Somali TikToker threatens Elon Musk’s life: "I wouldn't worry too much about him. He about to die."

The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime. “My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated. “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t...