Federal prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Asha Farhan Hassan for her alleged role in a $14 million fraud scheme involving a publicly funded program meant to provide services to people with autism.

According to the US Attorney’s Office of Minnesota, The Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention benefit is a publicly funded program in Minnesota that offers medically necessary services to people under the age of 21 with autism spectrum disorder.

Prosecutors allege from 2019 through 2024, Hassan formed and registered Smart Therapy LLC, and later enrolled the business as a provider agency with the state program.

She then hired "behavioral technicians" and claimed they were providing one-on-one therapy to autistic children. But prosecutors say these people were teenage rela

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