Article: Niece of Somali leader convicted in HMO billing scam; Eden Prairie woman who once won award for refugee work faces decades in prison for filing phony claims to Medica.(NEWS)

Byline: Dan Browning; Staff Writer

Indadeeq Omar, the niece of a former Somali president and a prominent member of the Twin Cities Somali community, was convicted Thursday of a wide-ranging health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy after a federal trial in Minneapolis.

Jurors found Omar, 44, of Eden Prairie, participated in a scheme that bilked more than $1.5 million in medical assistance payments from 2001 to 2004. The indictment says Omar, her husband, Mohamed Essa, and former Medica employee Tou Chaiker Vang conspired to submit bills for interpreting services that were never provided.

Vang, 39, of Maplewood, pleaded guilty and ...

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