More fraud

[El Luchador]

 

I think there may be a trend.

 

 

[El Luchador]

Another liberal judge denied the people justice.  

 

 

[mspart]

https://garagelogic.com/a-deeper-dive-into-the-latest-fraud-centered-around-school-bus-transportation/

What started as a tip about a transportation company operating out of a Roseville parking lot led Alpha News to uncover potentially $3 million in overbilling inside Minneapolis Public Schools—and deeper concerns about oversight in a state already drowning in fraud.

Frontier Transportation Services, LLC is operated by two men named Falmata Bedasso and Abdurahman Kadir, according to secretary of state records. The company, which transports “Homeless and Highly Mobile” (HHM) students, was authorized to receive, at most, $3.6 million from Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) for services through 2027, contract and school board records reviewed by Alpha News show.

But by early 2025, the district had already been billed well above that amount, according to the most recent contracts and invoices obtained by Alpha News through a data practices request.

In total, all of the invoices provided by the district in response to the request add up to more than $7 million.

The timing is hard to ignore: a new state law took effect in 2023 guaranteeing school districts 100% reimbursement for transportation costs tied to HHM students, according to Minneapolis Schools Voices.

Oversight of vehicles used to transport students
Unlike traditional school buses, Frontier relies on Type III minivans to transport students, which are limited to a maximum of 10 passengers, including the driver.

MPS admitted through a public data request that it does not have any copies of vehicle inventories provided by Frontier Transportation Services—despite the contract requiring “a vehicle inventory of all vehicles planned to be used to provide service.”

mspart

 

[mspart]

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/courts-news/other-fraud-cases-dismissed-connected-to-guilty-verdict-tossed-by-hennepin-county-judge/89-ca2729b4-4952-4f3a-828a-e38e36a3d6cd

Other fraud cases dismissed connected to guilty verdict tossed by Hennepin County judge

Judge Sarah West invalidated a jury's guilty verdict last month, but two other judges already had dismissed co-defendant cases.

MINNEAPOLIS — "The $7.2 million mailbox." That's how prosecutors described to the jury the supposed office of Promise Health LLC, the home healthcare company owned by Abdifatah Yusuf on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, where several other similar businesses were supposedly located. 

Jurors saw dozens of checks written to Yusuf's wife, family members, and $1.1 million in bank transfers and cash withdrawals to himself — money Promise Health received through state Medicaid reimbursements for claiming to provide personal care assistant or PCA services.

The jury saw it as fraud and convicted Yusuf of six counts of theft by swindle.

"It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the the state's evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt," the jury foreperson Ben Walfoort said.

What the jury didn't know is that before they deliberated, Judge Sarah West tossed out the top charge of racketeering. Then, three months after the verdict, Judge West made the rare move of tossing that out as well, giving Yusuf a judgment of acquittal. 

"With a circumstantial case, there has to be no other rational hypothesis other than guilt," said Paul Young, a former prosecutor and current defense attorney not connected to this case who analyzed the ruling for KARE 11.

Young said Judge West's decision stems from a strict review standard for cases that involve mostly circumstantial evidence. A jury is not asked to consider that standard, but appeals courts do, and Young said in this case, Judge West based her decision on it. Now the Minnesota Attorney General is the party that is appealing the verdict rather than the defendant.

Judges analyzing these cases look not just at proof beyond reasonable doubt but whether guilt is the "only reasonable hypothesis."

"In other words, if there is another reasonable explanation, that could be the reasonable doubt," Young said.

Prosecutors disagree with Judge West on what evidence should be considered circumstantial. But the fraud scheme that they have alleged has other problems as well.

Court records show other Hennepin County judges tossing related cases before they reached trial. Judge Amber Brennan dismissed the charges against Yusuf's wife Lul Ahmed, and Judge Hilary Caligiuri dismissed charges against co-defendant Abdiweli Mohamud. 

"I saw this story and immediately I was outraged," said Republican Senator Michael Holstrom. "Even with extreme judges, they knew that going in, we need to overcome that when the evidence is so clear."

Holstrom requested all exhibits from the Yusuf trial and says he's researching what can be done to stop and better prosecute these cases in the future.

Interesting names being bandied about as being the perps.   

mspart

[El Luchador]

28 minutes ago, mspart said:

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/courts-news/other-fraud-cases-dismissed-connected-to-guilty-verdict-tossed-by-hennepin-county-judge/89-ca2729b4-4952-4f3a-828a-e38e36a3d6cd

Other fraud cases dismissed connected to guilty verdict tossed by Hennepin County judge

Judge Sarah West invalidated a jury's guilty verdict last month, but two other judges already had dismissed co-defendant cases.

MINNEAPOLIS — "The $7.2 million mailbox." That's how prosecutors described to the jury the supposed office of Promise Health LLC, the home healthcare company owned by Abdifatah Yusuf on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, where several other similar businesses were supposedly located. 

Jurors saw dozens of checks written to Yusuf's wife, family members, and $1.1 million in bank transfers and cash withdrawals to himself — money Promise Health received through state Medicaid reimbursements for claiming to provide personal care assistant or PCA services.

The jury saw it as fraud and convicted Yusuf of six counts of theft by swindle.

"It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the the state's evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt," the jury foreperson Ben Walfoort said.

What the jury didn't know is that before they deliberated, Judge Sarah West tossed out the top charge of racketeering. Then, three months after the verdict, Judge West made the rare move of tossing that out as well, giving Yusuf a judgment of acquittal. 

"With a circumstantial case, there has to be no other rational hypothesis other than guilt," said Paul Young, a former prosecutor and current defense attorney not connected to this case who analyzed the ruling for KARE 11.

Young said Judge West's decision stems from a strict review standard for cases that involve mostly circumstantial evidence. A jury is not asked to consider that standard, but appeals courts do, and Young said in this case, Judge West based her decision on it. Now the Minnesota Attorney General is the party that is appealing the verdict rather than the defendant.

Judges analyzing these cases look not just at proof beyond reasonable doubt but whether guilt is the "only reasonable hypothesis."

"In other words, if there is another reasonable explanation, that could be the reasonable doubt," Young said.

Prosecutors disagree with Judge West on what evidence should be considered circumstantial. But the fraud scheme that they have alleged has other problems as well.

Court records show other Hennepin County judges tossing related cases before they reached trial. Judge Amber Brennan dismissed the charges against Yusuf's wife Lul Ahmed, and Judge Hilary Caligiuri dismissed charges against co-defendant Abdiweli Mohamud. 

"I saw this story and immediately I was outraged," said Republican Senator Michael Holstrom. "Even with extreme judges, they knew that going in, we need to overcome that when the evidence is so clear."

Holstrom requested all exhibits from the Yusuf trial and says he's researching what can be done to stop and better prosecute these cases in the future.

Interesting names being bandied about as being the perps.   

mspart

Apparently this is what social justice looks like as compared to actual justice. 

Minnesota is so corrupt there's no way they're running legitimate elections.

[mspart]

It does appear that they are corrupt.   This is a lot of reported corruption.   It's like, lets see how much we can give to the Somali community with virtually no auditing or concern for how much goes out or how much goes for "the intended" purposes.  

The question is why?   Is that electoral?   Do the Somalis have an organized crime thing going and the politicos in MN are scared of them?  Or are they otherwise in cahoots with each other for some unknown reason?   It doesn't make any sense that this is happening.   However, in WA, money is spent without any audit or fear of audit.   King County just got audited and they can't audit completely because the trail is too convoluted.   

mspart

[El Luchador]

Minnesota created it own USAID when they saw how successful it was for Democrats at the federal level. More NGOs that get all their funding from the government.

[El Luchador]

Here is a really good overview of all the fraud that's occurred

 

 

[Caveira]

3 hours ago, mspart said:

It does appear that they are corrupt.   This is a lot of reported corruption.   It's like, lets see how much we can give to the Somali community with virtually no auditing or concern for how much goes out or how much goes for "the intended" purposes.  

The question is why?   Is that electoral?   Do the Somalis have an organized crime thing going and the politicos in MN are scared of them?  Or are they otherwise in cahoots with each other for some unknown reason?   It doesn't make any sense that this is happening.   However, in WA, money is spent without any audit or fear of audit.   King County just got audited and they can't audit completely because the trail is too convoluted.   

mspart

I Found someone that does not care about fraud.   @ThreePointTakedown your favorite corrupt politician jasmine crockett 

 

 

[El Luchador]

 

 

 

[mspart]

1 hour ago, Caveira said:

I Found someone that does not care about fraud.   @ThreePointTakedown your favorite corrupt politician jasmine crockett 

 

 

She is right, there is no perfect system.   But there is no reason not to do what you can to make it more accountable and prosecute those that illegally take advantage of the system.   That's where she is wrong. 

This is the same mentality that says Blacks need easier criteria to graduate from HS,  get into schools and professions.   They can't succeed any other way.   When it is clear that is just a racist excuse that says blacks are dumb and unemployable.   Which is racism at its core.   I do not accept that to be true.   Anyone can succeed.   We have done a real disservice to a load of people black and white by lowering standards so they can make it.   Well, they aren't making it, black and white.   Kids are the perfect people to learn.   Their brains are geared for that.  But when our schools don't teach them, they won't learn and then they are dumb the rest of their lives unless they really make an effort.    But it is so much harder as an adult.   We have lost much of the current generation due to this.  It is criminal really.  

mspart

[El Luchador]

Here's our politicians showing showing transparency and accountability, not!

This is how corrupt people behave when exposed.

 

 

 

 

[Offthemat]

Here’s some more fraud that may get some coverage soon. 
 

 

[Caveira]

Fraud fraud and more fraud 

 

 

[El Luchador]

I'm beginning to think Democrats are not very smart people. 

[Scouts Honor]

i venture to guess that we will find more and more in MOST of the 50 states

they just found some in Mass.

[mspart]

Our diversity is our greatest asset.  Just remember this.  

mspart

[Offthemat]

When we entered WWII, immigration to the United States had been severely reduced since the Immigration Act of 1924.  We still went through formidable challenges in dealing with Japanese and Germans.  We are currently facing the onslaught of a color revolution by a cohort of leftist Marxists, Islamists, and Chinese. 

[Offthemat]

More fraud:

 

[Caveira]

Now the left defend the fraud and illegal immigrants   

 

 

[Offthemat]

 

“The government’s failure to count its largess as recipients’ income allows welfare households to blow past the income level above which a working family no longer qualifies for government help. Take a single parent with two school-age children who earns $11,000 annually from part-time work. The government considers this household in poverty because its income is below $25,273. But this family would qualify for benefits worth $53,128. It would receive Treasury checks of $3,400 in refundable child tax credits and $4,400 in refundable earned-income tax credits. The family would also receive Food Stamp debit cards worth $9,216 a year, $9,476 in housing subsidies, $877 of government payments for utility bills, $16,033 to fund Medicaid, $3,102 in free meals at school and $6,624 in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. All this puts the family’s income at $64,128, or 254% of the poverty level.

A hardworking family earning anything like $64,128 in salary wouldn’t be eligible for any of these welfare benefits in four-fifths of the states. Meanwhile, the welfare family would be eligible for another 90 small federal benefits and sundry state and local welfare programs.

According to the Congressional Budget Office and other independent researchers, when all means-tested payments are counted as income, most welfare recipients have incomes that put them in the middle class, and the proportion of poor people in the U.S. falls from more than 10% to less than 1%.

This unjust system also penalizes work. Unsurprisingly, the percentage of work-age persons in the bottom 20% of income who in fact work has in the last 50 years fallen from 68% to 36%.“

 

https://archive.is/BTlpG

[ThreePointTakedown]

Y’all love to dismiss ideas because they aren’t ‘perfect’. Telling the truth, somehow is bad now. But only when you can be outraged about the thing you demonize. Why aren’t you concerned with WalMart using government benefits to underpay their employees? 
You don’t have to answer, not that you ever would, we all know why!
 

You’re all hypocrites and uniformed morons. 

 

[mspart]

Are you saying that losing billions to fraud is an idea that isn't perfect?   I'd say so so most certainly. 

Do you have a problem with welfare recipients capable of making 250% of poverty via government subsidies?  If so, what impact does that have on working people who make less than that, say 200% of poverty?

If Walmart is doing that it is because they are getting gov benefits and those are the rules layed out.   A question arises, how much pay would they get if Walmart didn't get gov benefits?   I have no idea about Walmart or your allegation but I assume you know all about it.   Please inform. 

mspart

[braves121]

Conservatives are really the type of people to vilify immigrants and others on welfare and say the government shouldn’t do any hand outs while gladly defending a multi billion dollar corporation who is a welfare queen 

4 minutes ago, mspart said:

Are you saying that losing billions to fraud is an idea that isn't perfect?   I'd say so so most certainly. 

Do you have a problem with welfare recipients capable of making 250% of poverty via government subsidies?  If so, what impact does that have on working people who make less than that, say 200% of poverty?

If Walmart is doing that it is because they are getting gov benefits and those are the rules layed out.   A question arises, how much pay would they get if Walmart didn't get gov benefits?   I have no idea about Walmart or your allegation but I assume you know all about it.   Please inform. 

mspart

 

[El Luchador]

30 minutes ago, braves121 said:

Conservatives are really the type of people to vilify immigrants and others on welfare and say the government shouldn’t do any hand outs while gladly defending a multi billion dollar corporation who is a welfare queen.

 

  The government picking the winners and losers is far from a conservative principal. Libs love to control behavior by taxing what they don't like and subsidizing what they do.  Limited government is the cornerstone of conservative ideology.