Two Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, residents are accused of making false claims to receive over $860,000 in medical assistance payments, according to court records filed Thursday.
Magda Mahmoud Elsagher and her husband, Mohamed Metwalli Elshazli, are each charged with one count of wrongfully obtaining assistance and perjury. The criminal complaint said they, along with their four adult children, received public benefits from Anoka County's Department of Human Services in the form of Medical Assistance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from March 23, 2020, through Feb. 28, 2021, and from Sept. 17, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2022.
The court document says their eligibility for public assistance programs was based on statements Elsagher and Elshazli provided to the county agency, which requires people applying to accurately report their household income and assets.
During numerous filings and interviews with the county agency, the two falsely claimed that no one in the household was self-employed and failed to report other income and assets, "Declaring under penalty of perjury" that everything they wrote in their forms was true, according to the court document.
The complaint said a medical assistance renewal form received in October 2020 showed no income for Elshazli, and a personal statement provided in 2020 — signed by the couple — said their only assets were a checking account with $200 and a single vehicle. According to the court document, it was reported during an...
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