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Except a 55 page order that outlines the facts of the case in excruciating detail, accompanied by the relevant analysis. There's no way to link to the order, but you can find it by searching https://publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us/ for Case No. 27-CR-24-13734. The gist of the opinion is that the prosecution did a very good job of proving that the defendant's brother was committing fraud through a home-health entity that the defendant owned. The brother was managing the business and hired a consultant who produced documents that were submitted to Medicaid showing inflated hours for legitimate clients as well as hours billed to fictitious clients. The issue was that none of the witnesses with direct knowledge of the fraud were able to implicate the defendant. Most had never met him at all, and the few who had testified that they only met him a couple times and just made small talk. There wasn't even any evidence that he had any direct involvement in the management of the company.
The circumstances that the jury convicted on were that he was the chartered owner of the company, that he received substantial cash payments from the company, and was in possession of a company debit card. There were also a few checks with his purported signature, though the signatures are inconsistent and he was out of town on the dates that some of them were signed in Minneapolis, so it's an open question which ones are genuine. His signature also appears on the padded Medicaid submissions, but the consultant testified that she forged his signature at his brother's direction. I quote the standard in a comment below, but the gist of it is that if a case relies entirely on circumstantial evidence, then the defendant's guilt has to be the only reasonable conclusion inferred from the circumstances. Since you can also reasonably infer that the defendant was an absentee owner who simply collected money from the business and didn't participate in its day to day affairs and neither knew of nor participated in the fraud his brother was perpetrating. The prosecution, therefore, didn't reach their burden and the conviction must be set aside. You may disagree with the reasoning, but its difficult to say that she let this guy go just because she felt sorry for Somalis.
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