In August 2025, Abdifatah Abdulkadir Yusuf, a Minnesota business owner, was found guilty on six counts of aiding and abetting theft by swindle in a seven-day trial. Yusuf was said to have scammed the Medicaid program out of over $7.2 million, while spending heavily on luxury items from brands like Canada Goose, Coach, and Nordstrom.
However, three months later, Hennepin County District Judge Sarah West overturned the jury's guilty verdicts and acquitted Yusuf of the crimes. Now a three-judge panel on the Minnesota Court of Appeals has reversed West's decision and restored the guilty verdicts, according to KSTP News.
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"I'm very pleased with the Court of Appeals decision today," Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement, as reported by Bring Me The News. In the appellate court's opinion, the jury's initial interpretation of the facts was legally sound and should not have been discarded.
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