Republican Minnesota senator calls judge 'true extremist' after $7.2M taxpayer-fraud conviction overturned

A Republican authorities legislator successful Minnesota is calling 1 justice a "true extremist" aft she overturned a $7.2 cardinal payer fraud conviction.

Abdifatah Yusuf and his wife, Lul Ahmed, were charged successful June 2024 and were accused of stealing $7.2 cardinal from the state's Medicaid programme portion operating a location healthcare business. The Minnesota Attorney General's Office said the concern lacked an bureau gathering and operated for "years retired of a mailbox."

The lawyer general's bureau said Yusuf received Medicaid wealth by billing for services not provided and services that lacked "any documentation," and overbilled for services. 

Yusuf allegedly utilized the wealth to money a "lavish lifestyle," including buying sprees astatine luxury stores specified arsenic Coach, Michael Kors, Nike, Nordstrom and more.

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Judge Sarah West overturned Abdifatah Yusuf's verdict. (Minnesota Courts and Google Maps)

Yusuf directed implicit $1 cardinal from the concern relationship to his idiosyncratic relationship and besides withdrew implicit $387,000 successful cash, the lawyer general's bureau said.

A assemblage convicted Yusuf of six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle, implicit $35,000, successful August. However, that determination was thrown retired by Judge Sarah West successful a mid-November ruling, according to KARE.

In her decision, West wrote that prosecutors "relied heavy connected circumstantial evidence," adding that the authorities didn't regularisation retired different imaginable "reasonable inferences."

The justice added she was, however, "troubled by the mode successful which fraud was capable to beryllium perpetuated astatine Promise Health."

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison arrives to talk connected signifier during the 3rd time of the Democratic National Convention astatine the United Center connected Aug. 21, 2024, successful Chicago, Illinois. His bureau has filed an entreaty of West's determination to overturn Yusuf's verdict. (Getty Images)

Republican Minnesota Sen. Michael Holmstrom said successful an interrogation that West is simply a "true extremist."

"Judicial betterment is indispensable successful Minnesota… This wasn't an utmost situation," Holmstrom told Fox News Digital. "This is conscionable however she operates."

"I deliberation that she is simply a existent extremist, that her ideology is moving her courtroom and damaging our justness system. People successful Minnesota are questioning whether oregon not the judicial strategy tin beryllium trusted. And with judges similar this, I spot why," helium added.

Holmstrom said helium noticed 1 of the sealed exhibits successful Yusuf's lawsuit contained an planetary wealth bid to an undisclosed idiosyncratic successful an chartless country. Holmstrom said helium made a petition to spot the exhibit, which hasn't yet been granted.

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"I privation to cognize what happened, and I deliberation Minnesotans honestly merit to cognize what their taxation wealth is going to money and however these remittances are working," helium said.

Holmstrom added that helium was "outraged" upon proceeding West had reversed Yusuf's conviction, arguing she was "outside her authority" to marque the decision.

Ben Walfoort, the assemblage foreperson successful Yusuf's case, said the determination to convict wasn't a analyzable one.

"It was not a hard determination whatsoever," helium said, according to KARE. "The deliberation took astir apt 4 hours astatine most. Based disconnected of the state's grounds that was presented, it was beyond a tenable doubt," Walfoort said. "I americium shocked. I'm shocked based disconnected of each of the grounds that was presented to america and the evident guilt that we saw based disconnected of the said evidence."

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Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison astatine a quality league connected June 3, 2020. ( REUTERS/Eric Miller)

The Minnesota Attorney General's Office, led by Democrat Keith Ellison, has filed an entreaty of West's determination to overturn Yusuf's verdict.

Minnesota has grappled with fraud problems, including the Feeding Our Future scheme, which progressive hundreds of millions of dollars successful embezzled COVID-19 funds. The alleged fraud stems from Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, Feeding Our Future and different organizations.

President Donald Trump connected Nov. 21 terminated deportation protections for Somalis successful Minnesota, claiming that "Somali gangs are terrorizing the radical of that large State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing."

His determination came aft a study from the Manhattan Institute, a blimpish deliberation tank, alleged that millions of dollars were being funneled to Al-Shabaab, a Somali panic group, related to the Feeding Our Future scam.

Fox News Digital reached retired to a typical for West and Yusuf's lawyer for comment.

Yusuf's attorney, Ian Birrell, said West made the close decision, adding his lawsuit was wrongly accused.

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"Judge West's ruling affirms what we person maintained from the beginning: our lawsuit Mr. Yusuf was wrongfully accused and did not perpetrate fraud oregon racketeering," helium said, KARE reported. "The Court's determination to participate judgments of acquittal connected each charges reflects the cardinal rule that justness requires some fairness and proof. We admit the Court's cautious attraction to the grounds and the law."