Minnesota Autism Center Owner PLEADS GUILTY As FBI EXPOSES $46M Medicaid Fraud & Faces 87 Months

It started with one autism therapy business in Minneapolis. Prosecutors say Smart Therapy billed a Minnesota Medicaid program about $14 million for therapy children never received, paid parents to enroll their kids, and also took $465,000 from the Feeding Our Future child meal program. Its owner, Asha Farhan Hassan, has now pleaded guilty. And she was only the first.

In this report

• How prosecutors say the scheme worked
• The FBI raid and what the search warrant said
• The guilty plea, the $16 million restitution and the 70 to 87 month range
• How the program's cost grew from $600,000 to more than $400 million
• The April 2026 raids on five more autism centers
• The May 2026 case: 15 people charged, $46 million in autism billing
• The code word prosecutors say was used for the payments

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