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Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« on: November 25, 2025, 02:06:31 pm »
Amy Furr 25 Nov 2025

A judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota, has overturned a guilty verdict in the case of a man accused of stealing $7.2 million from taxpayers.

The case centered around Abdifatah Yusuf running a home healthcare company called Promise Health from a mailbox. He and his wife, Lul Ahmed, were later charged with stealing the money via Medicaid overbilling in the scam, KARE 11 reported Monday.

However, the outlet said, “Despite the jury swiftly convicting Yusuf, Judge Sarah West last week decided that they got it wrong, overturning the verdict and issuing a judgment of acquittal.”

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    Defense attorney Joe Tamburino, who is not affiliated with the case, reviewed the decision and analyzed it for KARE 11 News. He says Judge West ruled that the state’s case “relied heavily on circumstantial evidence,” and that she believed the state didn’t rule out other “reasonable inferences.”

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    Despite the ruling, even Judge West wrote that she is “troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise Health.”

According to the Minnesota Judicial Branch website, West was elected in 2020 and her current term expires in January 2027.


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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2025, 02:10:03 pm »
White liberals are killing the country.

Thankfully this can be appealed because she overruled the will of the jury.

What a bitch.
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2025, 03:20:23 pm »
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2025, 03:25:19 pm »
How many times will a judge go soft on the bad guys, before people start figuring out that maybe the judge is on the bad guys' payroll?   :pondering:
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2025, 04:50:56 pm »
Quote from: Ghost Bear on November 25, 2025, 03:25:19 pm
How many times will a judge go soft on the bad guys, before people start figuring out that maybe the judge is on the bad guys' payroll?   :pondering:
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2025, 04:54:14 pm »
Anybody looked at Judge West's bank account lately?
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2025, 05:03:52 pm »
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Judge West ruled that the state’s case “relied heavily on circumstantial evidence,” and that she believed the state didn’t rule out other “reasonable inferences.”

1.  All cases rely on circumstantial evidence of some sort.  But relying "heavily" is not the same as relying "solely".  So clearly, there was other evidence - concrete evidence - which the jury relied upon, such as billing for services never provided.

2.  It is not the prosecution's job to rule out "reasonable inferences".  It is defense counsel's job to introduce 'reasonable inferences' in order to stir up reasonable doubt against the prosecution
s case.

This judge is way out of bounds here.  While she does have the power to overturn the verdict, she does not have a legally valid argument for doing so.
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Re: Minnesota Judge Overturns Guilty Verdict in $7 Million Taxpayer Fraud Case
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2025, 05:53:25 pm »
Is it just me, or does she look like she's about 12 years old?
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