A Republican state senator in Minnesota is calling one judge a “true extremist” after she overturned a $7.2 million taxpayer fraud conviction.
Abdifatah Yusuf and his wife, Lul Ahmed, were charged in June 2024 and were accused of stealing $7.2 million from the state’s Medicaid program while operating a home healthcare business. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said the business lacked an office building and operated for “years out of a mailbox.”
The attorney general’s office said Yusuf received Medicaid money by billing for services not provided and services that lacked “any documentation,” and overbilled for services.
Yusuf allegedly used the money to fund a “lavish lifestyle,” including shopping sprees at luxury stores such as Coach, Michael Kors, Nike, Nordstrom and more.
Yusuf directed over $1 million from the business account to his personal account and also withdrew over $387,000 in cash, the attorney general’s office said.
A jury convicted Yusuf of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle, over $35,000, in August. However, that decision was thrown out by Judge Sarah West in a mid-November ruling, according to KARE.
In her decision, West wrote that prosecutors “relied heavily on circumstantial evidence,” adding that the state didn’t rule out other potential “reasonable inferences.”
The judge added she was, however, “troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise Health.”
Republican Minnesota Sen. Michael Holmstrom said in an interview that West is a “true extremist.”
“Judicial reform is necessary in Minnesota… This wasn’t an extreme situation,” Holmstrom told Fox News Digital. “This is just how she operates.”
“I think that she is a true extremist, that her ideology is running her courtroom and damaging our justice system. People in Minnesota are questioning whether or not the judicial system can be trusted. And with judges like this, I see why,” he added. …full story
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