Dem Judges are Protecting Somali Fraudsters

You just knew that the moment that President Trump came out against Somali fraudsters, Dems would have to come out for them.

Somali fraud in Minnesota had long been coddled by the local DFLers until it just became too huge in scale to continue covering up. But some Democrat judges are still doing what they can for their new base.

“The $7.2 million mailbox.” That’s how prosecutors described to the jury the supposed office of Promise Health LLC, the home healthcare company owned by Abdifatah Yusuf on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, where several other similar businesses were supposedly located.

Jurors saw dozens of checks written to Yusuf’s wife, family members, and $1.1 million in bank transfers and cash withdrawals to himself — money Promise Health received through state Medicaid reimbursements for claiming to provide personal care assistant or PCA services.

The jury saw it as fraud and convicted Yusuf of six counts of theft by swindle.

What the jury didn’t know is that before they deliberated, Judge Sarah West tossed out the top charge of racketeering. Then, three months after the verdict, Judge West made the rare move of tossing that out as well, giving Yusuf a judgment of acquittal.

Court records show other Hennepin County judges tossing related cases before they reached trial. Judge Amber Brennan dismissed the charges against Yusuf’s wife Lul Ahmed, and Judge Hilary Caligiuri dismissed charges against co-defendant Abdiweli Mohamud.

The pattern here is white liberal female judges giving a pass to Somalis.