Four Men With Somali Names Plead Guilty To Bilking Medicaid Under Company Called ‘Brilliant Minds’

Four Twin Cities men pleaded guilty to defrauding Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program out of approximately $2.2 million and hiding the scheme by using artificial intelligence tools to fabricate records when questioned by insurance companies, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.Moktar Hassan Aden, 31, Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27 set up Brilliant Minds Services LLC in the Griggs-Midway Building in St. Paul, Minnesota, and enrolled the business as a Medicaid program provider, according to the plea agreement. (RELATED: Misspelled Daycare Center Exposed By Nick Shirley Suddenly Sees Burst Of Activity)The fraud scheme “highlights a burgeoning trend of fraudsters” using AI to “further a fraud scheme targeting health care p