MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (PNN) - November 25, 2025 – We have told you quite a bit about Minnesota's ongoing fraud problems, the vast majority of them stemming from the large Somali population in and around Minneapolis. The state has paused Medicaid payments over fraud concerns (and that fraud has led to at least one death), and millions of dollars were laundered through
the Feeding Our Future program and state housing programs, too. A lot of that money ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab, the largest terrorist group in Somalia.
Despite all the evidence of fraud, a Minnesota outlaw judge has just overturned a jury's guilty verdict in one Medicare fraud case, paving the way for all the other fraud convictions to be overturned as well.
The jury heard that Yusuf and his wife were charged, and the jury learned his "home health company" was operated out of a mailbox at an address where multiple other "home health companies" also operated. The state showed they spent tens of thousands of dollars on luxury items.
The jury quickly found the couple guilty. Now a rogue outlaw judge in Hennepin County, Sarah West, has overturned that verdict.
"It's reversing or overturning a jury's verdict," said defense attorney Joe Tamburino. Tamburino was not affiliated with Yusuf's case but looked at the judge's decision.
According to Tamburino, rogue outlaw Judge West said the state's case relied "heavily on circumstantial evidence" and that the state did not "exclude other reasonable, rational inferences."
"That, in fact, there could've been other reasonable theories other than guilt in this case. That's what it comes down to," Tamburino said.
Outlaw rogue Judge West herself said she was "troubled" by the fraud in this case.
Rep. Kristin Robbins (Minn.), chairman of the House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee, said she was "stunned" by Judge West's ruling.
"We want to strengthen state law so that we can get prosecutions out of these cases," Robbins said. "Because clearly a jury thought he was guilty."
Jurors are stunned, too. "I'm shocked," said jury foreman Ben Walfoort. "I'm shocked based on all the evidence that was presented to us and the obvious guilt that we saw based on said evidence. It was not a difficult decision whatsoever," Walfoort said. "The deliberation took
probably four hours at most."
"Based on the state's evidence that was presented, I was beyond a reasonable doubt," Walfoort said.
The attorney general's office has filed an appeal.
Outlaw rogue Judge West is a former public defender and a former transaction manager at Barclays, who appears to seek ways to use her judicial powers to allow criminals to go free.
In other words, if the defendants are of the right demographic group, jury verdicts are meaningless.
This sets a very dangerous precedent that threatens the rule of law not just in Minnesota but elsewhere. If an outlaw rogue judge can undo jury verdicts, we no longer have a rule of law. We have a rogue court system that can charge (or dismiss charges) regardless of the law.
