00:00We're here today to announce that just yesterday, FBI Minneapolis and our partners executed 17
00:06search warrants in a single day to combine into a 26-count indictment. Three of those search
00:12warrants were at a child care center, two of those search warrants were at the residences of the
00:16owners of those centers, and two more of those search warrants were on the Early Intensive
00:20Development and Behavioral Intervention Unit here in Minnesota. FBI Minneapolis and our
00:26interagency partners arrested four of the alleged fraudsters. Faisal Emi, Aspen Associates, 11 counts
00:33of health care fraud, $8 million in intended loss. Jama Mohammed, American Home Health Care,
00:40six counts of health care fraud, $3.27 million in intended loss. Faisal Ahmed, Home Sweet Home,
00:48eight counts of health care fraud, $10 million in intended fraud. And Habiba Mohammed, smart therapy,
00:58one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, totaling nearly $20 million in intended
01:05fraud and loss. The subjects intended to defraud thousands of victims of over $41 million, money
01:12that was supposed to go to those in need with our precious taxpayer dollars funding that bill.
01:17Instead, they thought they could get away with their crimes. They did not succeed because of this
01:22team and the president and the vice president's anti-fraud task force. America is a generous country
01:27and the compassion of our people imposes a corresponding duty on our government. That is why I visited Minnesota
01:35in January to make clear that the U.S. Treasury is deploying every tool to bring an end to this
01:42egregious, unchecked fraud and hold perpetrators to account. Over the past year, Treasury returned
01:50$175 million in payments that would have gone to deceased individuals and expanded the do not pay
01:58access from 4 to 99 percent of federal programs. Further, we've stopped almost $190 million and returned
02:07over $100 million in funds to U.S. victims of overseas fraud, ordered an audit of approximately $9 billion
02:15in Treasury contracts, and together with our partners at the IRS, proposed stronger eligibility checks for
02:23health insurance tax credits. These actions form one front of a whole of government effort led by
02:30Vice President Vance. The vice president's task force first convened in March, and he has worked tirelessly
02:37to restore vigilance and responsible stewardship in the management of public money. Since January 2025,
02:46the Trump administration has uncovered more than $260 billion in fraud, prevented
02:52$72 billion in taxpayers' funds from going out the door to illicit actors annually, and brought enforcement
02:59actions against nearly $60 billion. Nowhere is the work more urgent than here in Minnesota. In the weeks
03:08following my visit, Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, issued a geographic
03:15targeting order to trace criminal networks that divert funds overseas and ensure that taxpayer dollars
03:22go to the American people, not terror groups like Al-Shabaab. We have ongoing investigations at home and abroad
03:32into Al-Shabaab, its networks, and its enablers. Since the start of the Trump administration, FinCEN data
03:40have also supported the law enforcement effort that led to the arrest and charging of 115 fraudsters, as well as
03:4875
03:49convictions, and nearly 3,000 subpoenas across Minnesota. And just yesterday, IRSCI assisted with
03:59investigative activity at several sites suspected of fraud.
