Northeast Radio SD News – Twin Cities, MN – Four Twin Cities men have pleaded guilty to defrauding Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program out of approximately $2.2 million, a scheme federal prosecutors say was concealed using artificial intelligence to fabricate records.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the defendants — Moktar Hassan Aden, 31; Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29; Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26; and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27 — operated Brilliant Minds Services LLC out of the Griggs‑Midway Building in St. Paul. They enrolled the business as a Medicaid provider. They claimed they would help people with disabilities, seniors, and individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders find and maintain housing through the state’s now‑defunct HSS program.
Instead, prosecutors say the men signed up roughly 350 Medicaid recipients and submitted thousands of claims for services that were never provided or were significantly inflated to obtain higher reimbursements…