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Minnesota prosecutor accused of Medicaid fraud in sex trafficking case
A former Minneapolis-area prosecutor is facing a slew of criminal charges after allegedly submitting fraudulent claims to Medicaid out of a commercial sex house she had transformed into an assisted living facility.
TL;DR
- Andrea Leigh Sampson, a former Anoka County prosecutor, is charged with 13 counts of promoting prostitution and 13 counts of generating profits from commercial prostitution.
- She allegedly created shell companies to funnel profits from a Twin Cities sex trafficking ring between 2020 and 2026.
- Sampson is accused of operating assisted living facilities, including one converted from a commercial sex house, Homefelt Assisted Living, which billed Medicaid over $500,000.
- Sampson and co-conspirators allegedly defrauded the state of over $1.5 million in Medicaid funds.
- Other involved parties include Frank Devon Reeves, Viktoriya Komonash, and Salman Ahmed Elmi, who are implicated in sex trafficking, fraud, and operating businesses like Reva Autism Center and Reva Health.
- Properties owned by Sampson were allegedly used to photograph victims for sexual advertisements.
- Reeves and Elmi are also alleged owners of a property in Costa Rica and traveled internationally.