Convicted Somali scammer to avoid jail time in Minnesota’s largest-ever Medicaid fraud case
Said Awil Ibrahim, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle in Minnesota’s largest Medicaid fraud case, involving approximately $11 million in stolen funds. As part of a plea deal, Ibrahim will avoid jail time and instead serve five years of supervised probation while assisting authorities in pursuing co-defendant Abdirashid Ismail Said, who is believed to have fled the country. Ibrahim must also repay $2.2 million in restitution through a future-determined payment plan.
- ▪Said Awil Ibrahim pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle in a $11 million Medicaid fraud scheme.
- ▪Ibrahim will serve five years of supervised probation and help prosecutors pursue Abdirashid Ismail Said, the alleged mastermind who fled the country.
- ▪Ibrahim must repay $2.2 million in joint restitution through a payment plan to be determined at sentencing.
- ▪Abdirashid Ismail Said previously avoided jail after a 2021 Medicaid fraud conviction and was allowed to retain his passport despite being a known flight risk.
- ▪Ibrahim and Said operated a fake personal care assistance agency in Minneapolis, where they overbilled Medicaid by inflating care hours.
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A Somali scammer convicted in Minnesota’s largest-ever Medicaid fraud case will likely avoid jail time after striking a plea deal with state Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office last week. Said Awil Ibrahim, 26, pled guilty on Friday to two counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle for his role in a sprawling home healthcare scheme that stole approximately $11 million in Medicaid funds from Minnesota’s personal care assistance program. Recommended Stories Top study exaggerating threat of right-wing extremism draws data from the SPLC Minnesota nonprofit hospitals generating fortune off of government program spent millions overseas SPLC kept paying Aryan Nations operatives after bragging about bankrupting them Ibrahim, the only remaining co-conspirator still in the United States,…
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