A Minnesota fraud suspect who leapt from a 4th-floor balcony to avoid arrest Thursday morning has been captured, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.
“After today’s interagency press conference announcing 15 public healthcare fraud indictments in Minnesota, the below subject who was on the run – Muhammad Omar – has now been arrested,” Patel wrote on X, including a photo of the suspect hobbling while holding one shoe.
“He is charged with healthcare fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1349, 18 U.S.C. § 1347) involving a Housing Stabilization Services company – with fraudulent claims for services not provided and diverting the proceeds for personal benefit,” the FBI director added.
Omar and the other 14 suspects are accused of bilking taxpayers out of $90 million by defrauding Minnesota’s state-run Medicaid programs.
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