Somali Minneapolis woman featured in Nick Shirley’s famous daycare fraud video is charged

The owner of a Minneapolis daycare featured in an infamous YouTube video exposing Somali fraud stole $4.6 million from the government, prosecutors say.

The arrest of Fahima Mahamud, 50, comes as federal officials reveal 15 defendants across Minnesota are facing charges over alleged fraud schemes that targeted $90 million in taxpayer dollars.

US Assistant Attorney for Fraud Enforcement General Colin McDonald announced cases involving seven Medicaid programs ‘systematically pilfered by fraudsters that created Minnesota-run programs as their personal piggy bank’…

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