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**Yes, the claim in the image is true.**

Asha Farhan Hassan (age 28–29, of Somali background) owned and operated Smart Therapy Center LLC in Minneapolis. She was federally charged in September 2025 with wire fraud for defrauding Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program—a Medicaid-funded autism services initiative—of more than **$14 million** in taxpayer funds between 2019 and 2024.

The scheme involved:

- Recruiting children (primarily from the Somali community),

- Paying parents monthly kickbacks ($300–$1,500 per child),

- Hiring unqualified staff (often young relatives with no training),

- Submitting fraudulent claims for services not provided or inflated.

Hassan also participated in the related Feeding Our Future child nutrition fraud, stealing an additional ~$465,000.

On December 18, 2025, she **pleaded guilty** to one count of wire fraud, admitting to the autism fraud and agreeing to ~$16 million in restitution.

This is confirmed by official sources including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office for Minnesota, and reports from outlets like Star Tribune, FOX 9, CBS Minnesota, and Minnesota Reformer.

The broader context involves ongoing investigations into multiple Minnesota social services programs, with suspected fraud potentially exceeding billions, often linked to similar patterns in the Somali community—but Hassan's case specifically matches the meme's details.

Henry McClure  
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