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FBI Search In Minnesota Results In Fraud Charges

Published on Tue Jul 26, 2011

When the FBI turns up to search your workplace, it rarely goes well. Earlier this year the FBI searched the Golden Valley, Minn. office of Universal Home Health Care owned by Shukri Adan, and now a former employee and operator have been charged with fraud. Employee Stephen Jon Rondestvedt defrauded Medicaid by submitting false reimbursement claims for personal care services, prosecutors charge. Rondestvedt allegedly agreed to provide and facilitate kickback payments to the family of a Medicaid recipient, who did not actually receive the services billed, according to a release from Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones. Operator Mustafa Hassan Mussa allegedly used the identification of a Medicaid recipient to submit fraudulent billings to Medicaid for years, the release says. If convicted, Rondestvedt faces up to 10 years in prison and Mussa two years.
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