UPDATE — Friday, October 30, 2026

Federal officials announced Friday that four people have been charged in connection with alleged health care fraud schemes totaling more than $41 million in intended fraud, following the execution of 17 search warrants across Minnesota on Thursday.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the charges at a press conference in St. Cloud, saying FBI Minneapolis and its partners executed the 17 warrants in a single day in connection with a 26-count indictment.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice:

  • Feisal Mohamed Elmi, 46, of New Brighton, was charged by indictment on October 22 with eleven counts of health care fraud in connection with an alleged $8.2 million scheme to defraud the Minnesota Medicaid EIDBI autism therapy program. Prosecutors allege Elmi billed for services that were not rendered and for services purportedly provided by employees while they were traveling outside the United States.
  • Habiba Mohamed, 58, of Coon Rapids, was charged by information on October 29 with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with an alleged $19.1 million EIDBI autism therapy scheme. Prosecutors allege she paid kickbacks to parents of Medicaid recipients in exchange for being able to submit claims.
  • Faiza Osman Ahmed, 41, of Richfield, was charged by indictment on October 28 with six counts of health care fraud in connection with an alleged scheme of approximately $10 million involving Minnesota Medicaid Individualized Home Supports, Personal Care Assistance, and Night Supervision programs. Prosecutors allege she billed for services that were not rendered.
  • Jama Yusuf Mohamod, 68, of Maple Grove, was charged by indictment on October 28 with eight counts of health care fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to submit approximately $3.2 million in fraudulent claims to the Minnesota Medicaid Integrated Community Supports Program. Prosecutors allege he billed for services that were not rendered and used artificial intelligence tools to create fake patient notes to justify claims.

The charges are allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, the Justice Department said.

The Justice Department also said that since September 30, its Fraud Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota have charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 defendants in cases involving nearly $83 million in intended losses, and that the department has issued more than 1,000 subpoenas and executed more than 40 premises warrants in Minnesota this year.

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UPDATE — Friday, October 30, 2026

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Senior Trump administration officials announced new fraud-prevention measures in St. Cloud on Friday, one day after federal and state agents searched several Minnesota businesses as part of a Medicaid fraud investigation.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent led the announcement alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Reporters in the room included the Star Tribune, WCCO, public radio and local radio outlets. Vice President JD Vance, who leads the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and was originally scheduled to headline the event, canceled his trip on Thursday night. The Wall Street Journal reported that a spokesman attributed the cancellation to a scheduling change; the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota confirmed the cancellation but did not provide a reason, according to the Star Tribune.

Bessent said the Treasury Department has stopped nearly $190 million in funds tied to overseas fraud and returned more than $100 million to U.S. victims, according to a Treasury Department release. "When greed meets negligence, the American people suffer," Bessent said.

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued two directives on Friday, according to the release. The first is an alert asking financial institutions to watch for suspicious cross-border payments involving U.S.-based money services businesses. Treasury said financial institutions reported more than $8 billion in potentially suspicious wire payments sent through U.S.-based money services businesses at the direction of foreign agents from 2021 to 2025. The second is a notice to help financial institutions detect and report suspicious activity involving charities and nonprofit organizations, describing schemes that include sham charities, fraud schemes, and embezzlement, according to the release.

The Treasury announcement did not include new charges related to Thursday's searches, and no charges had been announced as of Friday afternoon. Any allegations against an individual business remain unproven.

During questions from reporters, a Star Tribune reporter asked FBI Director Kash Patel whether there would be additional raids before the November 3 election. Patel said there would be, with the FBI working alongside its public safety partners and the Department of Justice.

A reporter also asked Bessent about the federal government's $495.6 million purchase of the former Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota, for use by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the purchase at the center of NCN's INV-352 investigation. Bessent declined to address the purchase, saying the event was not about that subject.

Separately, the Rochester Post Bulletin reported that Rochester police provided security for federal agents on Thursday morning as the FBI executed several search warrants in Rochester, and that the Minnesota Attorney General's office is not involved in the Rochester investigations. The businesses searched Thursday received funding through the state's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program, which supports young people with autism and their families, according to the Star Tribune. Attorney General Keith Ellison's office confirmed the St. Louis Park and Edina searches were joint state-federal operations, with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit assisting the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to the Star Tribune.

NCN is continuing to follow this story and will update it as officials release more information.

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. — Federal and state law enforcement agents executed search warrants at several sites across the Twin Cities metro on Thursday, October 29, 2026, as part of an investigation into suspected Medicaid fraud, according to the FBI and local news reporting.

A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation told KSTP that Medicaid Fraud Control Unit agents executed search warrants at several sites on Thursday morning. Federal officials told FOX 9 the activity involved the FBI, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), U.S. Postal Inspectors, IRS investigators, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), and the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

Officials described the searches as "court-authorized investigative activity" and said no further details were available at this point, according to FOX 9.

FOX 9 crews saw investigators working Thursday morning at a business center at 4200 Park Glen Road in St. Louis Park. According to KSTP reporting cited by Fox News, agents were also seen at Iska Inc. in St. Louis Park and Bright Horizon Therapy in Edina — both clinics that bill Medicaid for autism services.

A spokesperson for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office confirmed the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit's participation in the St. Louis Park operation and said additional information was expected, according to local reporting. The Minnesota Department of Human Services said collaboration between local, state, and federal authorities is essential to fighting fraud, according to reporting on the operation.

No charges related to Thursday's searches had been announced as of Thursday evening, and any allegations against an individual business remain unproven, according to Fox News.

The raids come one day before Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to visit St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Friday, October 30, with members of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud for an announcement on the administration's "War on Fraud," according to a release from the Vice President's office.

Minnesota's taxpayer-funded programs have faced intense scrutiny over fraud allegations in recent years, including the Feeding Our Future case, in which a Twin Cities nonprofit was implicated in a scheme to defraud federal child nutrition programs. Salim Said, convicted in that case alongside Aimee Bock, was sentenced on Wednesday, October 28, to 30 years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $44 million in restitution, according to Minnesota News Network reporting.

NCN has reached out to the FBI's Minneapolis field office and the Minnesota Attorney General's office for additional information about Thursday's searches, including the full list of sites and whether any arrests were made. This is a developing story and will be updated as officials release more information.

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