MINNEAPOLIMEDIA NEWS | Minnesota Attorney General Files 17 Felony Charges in Two Medicaid Fraud Cases

SAINT PAUL, MN (August 18, 2026) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has announced 17 felony theft charges against two men in separate cases alleging a combined loss of more than $1.5 million from the state’s Medicaid program.

The prosecutions involve Salman Ahmed Elmi, operator of Reva Health in Golden Valley, and Mohamed Haji Rashid, operator of Liberty Home Health Care in Minneapolis and Columbia Heights.

The cases are separate. Only the allegations involving Reva Health have been connected by investigators to people charged in the expanding Twin Cities sex-trafficking case involving former Anoka County assistant attorney Andrea Leigh Sampson.

Elmi faces eight felony theft charges related to more than $1 million in Medicaid-funded adult rehabilitative mental-health services that allegedly were never provided or did not qualify for reimbursement.

The Attorney General’s Office said Elmi operated Reva Health from 2024 through 2026. The company claimed to provide Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services to Medicaid recipients.

According to the criminal complaint, Elmi and others allegedly falsified service documentation, instructed employees to pay recipients kickbacks in exchange for permission to use their personal information, employed people who were not eligible to provide the billed services and claimed that adequate professional supervision had been provided when little or no supervision occurred.

The complaint identifies alleged connections between Reva Health and people recently charged in a separate Hennepin County sex-trafficking prosecution.

Frank Devone Reeves, who prosecutors describe as a leader of the alleged trafficking operation, was identified as a co-owner of Reva Health. Sampson, a former Anoka County prosecutor, is also named among the alleged co-conspirators connected to Reva-related entities.

The Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit said those individuals and associated companies remain under investigation for their possible roles in defrauding Medicaid.

Sampson and the other defendants in the trafficking case face separate criminal charges in Hennepin County. The Medicaid complaint does not constitute a finding that every amount billed by the connected companies was fraudulent.

In the second and independent case, Rashid faces nine felony theft charges related to more than $300,000 in allegedly improper Medicaid billing.

Prosecutors said Rashid operated Liberty Home Health Care between at least August 2020 and February 2025. The company provided personal-care assistance and home- and community-based services in the Twin Cities.

Liberty allegedly billed Medicaid for personal-care services that were not provided on more than 3,300 occasions.

One personal-care assistant told investigators that Rashid instructed her to report more hours than she had worked. Medicaid recipients reportedly told investigators they received services from only a limited number of workers, even though billing records listed additional assistants whom the recipients did not know.

The Elmi investigation was conducted jointly by the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, with assistance from the Minnesota Department of Human Services Forensic Laboratory.

The Rashid case was investigated by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit with assistance from the BCA, Columbia Heights Police Department and the DHS Forensic Laboratory.

Both cases are being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.

The charges are allegations. Elmi and Rashid are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in court.

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