Minnesota $1 billion fraud scheme used fake addresses, Fox finds

Minneapolis, Minnesota – As a massive fraud scheme continues to unfold, costing state and federal taxpayers at least $1 billion MinnesotaFox News Digital visited several sites that received funding through programs like Feeding Our Future and found several discrepancies that reveal the depth of the scandal.

Now notorious Greggs-Midway Building It includes an “unusual concentration” of fraudulent entities involved in the HSS scheme, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.

22 HSS-related “businesses” are registered on this single site. Thompson described these entities as “purely shell companies created solely to defraud the system.”

These 22 fraudulent companies collectively billed Medicaid a staggering $8 million between January 2024 and May 2025.

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Fox News Digital’s personal investigation of the building located at Saint Paul, MinnesotaIt showed vast areas of the southern side of the building completely deserted. A black and white sign advertising the building’s open spaces was adorned above the “Griggs-Midway Building” sign.

A number of men sat together and talked at the entrance to the building. When contacted, they told Fox News Digital that they did not speak English.

However, the west side of the building houses a number of seemingly legitimate businesses on the first floor, including a hair salon, a financial support and loan service for African immigrants, and a property management office.

The Griggs-Midway Building became a focal point in the Minnesota HSS fraud scandal. (Nicholas Lannom/Fox News Digital)

After extensive FBI searches of the building, the Minnesota Department of Human Services conducted nearly 40 investigations into service providers associated with the larger Griggs-Midway building.

Brilliant Minds Services allegedly submitted more than $2.3 million of the $8 million in fraudulent claims from the Griggs-Midway site, making it one of the highest-billed HSS providers in the state last year.

Four defendants: Mukhtar Hassan Aden, 30; Mustafa Dayeb Ali, 29; Khaled Ahmed Deeb, 26; Abdel Fattah Mahmoud Mohamed (27 years old) was charged in the fraud case. Muhammad was the owner of one of the other fraudulent companies involved, Foundation First Services LLC.

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Another site of the false claim took Fox News Digital to the second floor above a sushi shop just blocks from the Mississippi River.

The entrance was closed, and it was unclear whether the scammer simply used the address to maintain distance, or whether the scammer was actually located at the unit number listed on the claim.

The second floor showed little sign of life. Although one window had a “No Kings, No Fascists” sign facing the snowy city street.

The large, uniform reddish-brown brick building known as “Winsor Plaza” was the next destination on Fox News Digital’s journey through a Minnesota blizzard.

The simple box-like shape of the building had a red awning sticking out from the main entrance to the building. A tower of white water with “Roseville” written in red letters rose in the distance through the mist. Inside, the directory showed dozens of legitimate businesses, including doctors’ offices and wealth management services.

A search of the quiet halls of 1935 W County Road led to confusion. Unit 150, the office space listed in the false claim, was nowhere to be found. It appears that the pavilion in the current configuration of the building did not exist. Not only was the claim fraudulent, but so was the title.

A similar situation occurred at 9120 Baltimore St N. The claims report indicated that the fraudulent entity was operating out of Suite 100. Upon arrival, 9120 was seen mounted on a stone pillar in the middle of a commercial parking lot.

However, there was no cluster of office space or residential units, nor were there numbers affixed to the various storefronts. Only one operational dental clinic. Another obvious fraudulent headline.

NorthPark Dental in Blaine, Minnesota appears to be a legitimate operating company. There is no unit 100 at this location, indicating that the alleged fraud entity gave a fake address. (Nicholas Lannom/Fox News Digital)

The trend was broken in the next two locations.

2756 Douglas Dr N is a business address in Crystal, Minnesota, that houses housing companies like Rock Bridge Counseling & Mental Health and All Kind Painting & Cleaning, providing services for teens in crisis and home improvement, respectively.

These two companies comprised the A and B wings of the building but were not the fraudulent entities listed in the site’s claims. A real building with real businesses, but a fake company that appears to have never existed in this space.

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Another station, 1541 Como Ave, was found inside a narrow alley in St. Paul, Minnesota. The address housed a small, rusty garage attached to the back of the church. The garage looked empty, with no mailbox or trash cans.

The picnic bench outside the garage door was covered in leaves, snow and other debris.

Several gentlemen inside a nearby local business told Fox News Digital that a man named “John” used the location for a small gym and fitness center. He was often seen driving around in a luxury car. There was no indication whether this site was the legitimate operations center for the fraudulent claim.

4601 E 54th St, another location linked to the scandal, was visited by Fox News Digital only to find an empty parking lot. The address listed was 40th Street. However, there are no 400s on this street, only 500s.

Another location, 2720 E Lake St, was completely boarded up and covered in graffiti with a homeless person sleeping outside. It appears that the building was inoperable for a long period of time.

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“Most of that $500 million has not served a single meal, and some of the simple things are if they just went to the facilities, you know, you hear about thousands of people being served from an apartment twice a day, all they would have to do is come in and take a look at that.” republican State Sen. Mark Curran told Fox News Digital about the fraud that was hiding in plain sight in Minneapolis.

“There was a legislative auditor’s report that showed that 30 of the owners of the properties that these companies claim to operate out of, contacted the Department of Education that runs them, who ran this program, and told them that the companies were not on their property, so they didn’t exist, and I think one of them was a city park,” Curran said.

“So the Department of Education filed this complaint with the non-profit Feeding Our Future to address these issues, and the Department of Education continued to pay these 30 millions through a simple and blatant process of ‘we were notified they didn’t exist’ and they refused and ignored it.”