{"id":780677,"date":"2026-07-23T22:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780677\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:29:24","slug":"minnesota-man-who-jumped-off-balcony-to-flee-cops-pleads-guilty-in-3m-medicaid-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780677\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota man who jumped off balcony to flee cops pleads guilty in $3M Medicaid scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man who jumped from a fourth-story balcony in an attempt to avoid arrest has pled guilty in a federal health care fraud case, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar of Roseville, and another man, Ibrahim Bashir Abdi of Minneapolis are both accused of stealing more than $3 million in tax dollars by submitting fake Medicaid claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The men submitted those claims through HSS providers North Home Health Care LLC and South Home Health Care LLC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the latest guilty plea in the Justice Department\u2019s $90 million fraud investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, at least two other suspects have pleaded guilty of the 15 people who have been charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PREVIOUS: <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/doj-files-charges-against-15-defendants-accused-of-defrauding-government-programs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/doj-files-charges-against-15-defendants-accused-of-defrauding-government-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">DOJ charges 15 defendants accused of collectively defrauding $90 million<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omar\u2019s sentencing date had not been set.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/healthcare\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Healthcare<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/medicaid\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medicaid<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/fraud\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fraud<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/guilty-plea\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guilty Plea<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/health-care\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/roseville\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roseville<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who jumped from a fourth-story balcony in an attempt to avoid arrest has pled guilty in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[6884,306014,97,252,253,1341,45655],"class_list":["post-780677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-fraud","tag-guilty-plea","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-roseville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}