DOJ charges 15 tied to Minnesota fraud scandal
Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on the Justice Department charging 15 people in connection to $90 million in a Minnesota fraud case.
A Minnesota suspect accused of perpetrating fraud was captured after fleeing from law enforcement, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.
"After today’s interagency press conference announcing 15 public healthcare fraud indictments in Minnesota, the below subject who fled when FBI executed today’s raid - Muhammad Omar - has now been arrested," Patel announced in a Thursday post on X.
FBI Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia had said during a news conference on Thursday that an individual fled after leaping from a fourth-story balcony.
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Minnesota Medicaid fraud suspect Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar is seen fleeing FBI agents in surveillance video released by the Justice Department. Omar is wanted for an alleged $3.3 million scheme involving fraudulent Medicaid claims through two home health care companies before disappearing as agents moved in a DOJ fraud crackdown. (Department of Justice)
Federal Bureau of Investigations Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia addresses media to announce actions for combating fraud in Minnesota at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota on May 21, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minn. (David Berding/Getty Images)
"He is charged with healthcare fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1349, 18 U.S.C. § 1347) involving a Housing Stabilization Services company - with fraudulent claims for services not provided and diverting the proceeds for personal benefit," Patel's post stated regarding Omar. "Subject was located arrested within 2 hours."
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel prepares to testify for a Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
"Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, 32, of Roseville, Minnesota, and Ibrahim Bashir Abdi, 25, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, were charged by indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and four counts of health care fraud in connection with a scheme to submit $3.3 million in fraudulent claims to the Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) Program of Minnesota Medicaid, of which approximately $3.2 million was paid," according to the Justice Department.
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"As alleged in the indictment, Omar and Abdi co-owned and operated North Home Health Care LLC (NHHC) and Omar individually owned South Home Health Care LLC (SHHC). Omar and Abdi, through NHHC and SHHC, submitted claims to the HSS Program for services that they did not provide and for more services than were actually provided to Medicaid recipients. Omar and Abdi then created records falsifying the services that they claimed to have provided to Medicaid recipients and provided those records to insurers to justify their fraudulent claims," the DOJ asserted.
