Chapter 3 of 7 · 2019–2026

One Network, Many Schemes

The same people ran child-care centers, meal sites, group homes and autism clinics, often from the same addresses.

Rep. Robbins steps down from the chair to present the network map, House Fraud Committee, December 17, 2025 · full record

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In one minute

  1. Fahima Mahamud ran a child-care center that became a Feeding Our Future site. She kept billing the state's child-care program nearly until her arrest in 2026. report p. 19
  2. Of 1,609 home- and community-based service licenses in Hennepin County, a quarter listed the same address as another licensee. One building held 22 providers. report p. 40
  3. In Eden Prairie a daycare shut for fraud was followed by a new daycare at the same city-owned site, under a different name. report p. 48
  4. A man indicted in Feeding Our Future held assisted-living homes through the same company he had used for money laundering. His wife bought a fourth home after his indictment. report p. 61
  5. The committee mapped one network of people, realtors and small assisted-living homes, with an indicted Feeding Our Future defendant at its edge. report p. 60
“All you have to do is show up at their door and realize that in one building alone there were 22 providers.”
Rep. Marion Rarick, quoted in the committee report, p. 40
“both DHS and DCYF allowed Mahamud to continue billing CCAP uninhibited nearly until her arrest in 2026.”
Committee majority report, p. 19

The anatomy of fraud

The committee found the same pattern across program after program. Report, p. 9

  1. Identify a program with significant federal money, no enrollment caps, and low barriers to entry.
  2. Enroll as a provider.
  3. Set up a location: a real business, a desk inside another business, or just an address in a coworking space, apartment building or home.
  4. Sign up recipients, real or fake.
  5. Start billing Medicaid.
  6. Increase billing by forging attendance records, double-billing, and enrolling recipients in several programs at once.
  7. Set up a shell company or related business to bill for services to your own company and multiply the scale.

From the committee's own documents

Majority report table (introduced as 'CCAP funded Feeding Our Future food sites'), printed sideways: 69 child care centers that were Feeding Our Future food sites, with FOF payments 2018-2021, grand total, license status, open/close dates and CCAP payments 2018-2025. Top rows: St Paul Madina Academy $1,809,306.31 FOF total (closed); Minnesota Best Childcare Center (17th Ave) $1,510,885.64 (active; CCAP2025 $4,177,747); Mako Childcare Center $1,500,962.96. Small type - legible only at full resolution.
Majority report table (introduced as 'CCAP funded Feeding Our Future food sites'), printed sideways: 69 child care centers that were Feeding Our Future food sites, with FOF payments 2018-2021, grand total, license status, open/close dates and CCAP payments 2018-2025. Top rows: St Paul Madina Academy $1,809,306.31 FOF total (closed); Minnesota Best Childcare Center (17th Ave) $1,510,885.64 (active; CCAP2025 $4,177,747); Mako Childcare Center $1,500,962.96. Small type - legible only at full resolution.House Fraud Prevention Committee majority report (Chair Rep. Kristin Robbins), May 13, 2026 · House Fraud Committee hearing of 2026-05-13 · Majority Report. Fraud Prevention.05.13.26 (1).pdf, p. 33

The map

The network as presented: people (P1-P6), realtors (R1-R4), assisted-living houses, adult day centers and other businesses, with state payments by fiscal year. One node is marked as a Feeding Our Future defendant. The committee's slides are anonymized; so is this.
The network as presented: people (P1-P6), realtors (R1-R4), assisted-living houses, adult day centers and other businesses, with state payments by fiscal year. One node is marked as a Feeding Our Future defendant. The committee's slides are anonymized; so is this.
Cluster P1: one person's businesses (medical transportation, adult day, three small assisted-living homes, a personal-care business) and a restaurant whose address they share, marked as visited by undercover state agents.
Cluster P1: one person's businesses (medical transportation, adult day, three small assisted-living homes, a personal-care business) and a restaurant whose address they share, marked as visited by undercover state agents.
Cluster R4: a realtor tied to assisted-living houses and a home-care business, linked to a Feeding Our Future defendant and to a brokerage where several realtors run health-care companies.
Cluster R4: a realtor tied to assisted-living houses and a home-care business, linked to a Feeding Our Future defendant and to a brokerage where several realtors run health-care companies.
Cluster R3: a realtor tied to an Integrated Community Supports provider, assisted-living houses and two nonprofits, at the same brokerage.
Cluster R3: a realtor tied to an Integrated Community Supports provider, assisted-living houses and two nonprofits, at the same brokerage.

Source: Assisted Living Slides, House Fraud Committee hearing, Dec 17, 2025 (committee document, as presented by Rep. Robbins)

Go deeper

Report: Integrated Community SupportsPages 51–53, searchable.Report: Assisted Living / Customized LivingPages 57–62, searchable.

People

Rep. Kristin Robbins

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