MINNEAPOLIS — "The $7.2 million mailbox." That's how prosecutors described to the jury the supposed office of Promise Health LLC, the home healthcare company owned by Abdifatah Yusuf on Central Avenue in Minneapolis, where several other similar businesses were supposedly located.

Jurors saw dozens of checks written to Yusuf's wife, family members, and $1.1 million in bank transfers and cash withdrawals to himself — money Promise Health received through state Medicaid reimbursements for claiming to provide personal care assistant or PCA services.

The jury saw it as fraud and convicted Yusuf of six counts of theft by swindle.

"It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the the state's evidence that was presented, it was beyo

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