A Minneapolis daycare owner was charged on May 20 with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Fahima Egeh Mahamud, 50, CEO of Future Leaders Early Learning Center, allegedly submitted more than 13,000 false claims to Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) between 2022 and 2025, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday. About 6,144 of these claims required co-payments to be collected from families.
Prosecutors say Mahamud falsely certified that those payments had been collected, allowing her daycare business to receive $4.6 million in improper reimbursements.
Mahamud was initially charged in February with wire fraud for her alleged involvement in the Feeding Our Future meal fraud scheme….