Staff Reports
A new whistleblower interview has Minnesota’s autism‑care mess back in the spotlight — and this time the questions land uncomfortably close to Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan’s circle. A former EIDBI therapist went on a podcast and accused two providers of running shoddy, possibly fraudulent autism programs. The reporting says state officials moved to remove those providers from Medicaid as part of the Minnesota Revalidate 2026 effort. That is the immediate development everyone should be asking about.
New whistleblower interview: blunt allegations on the record
Grant Morgan, who says he worked in Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program, went on the Liz Collin podcast and laid out sharp allegations about two providers: Milestone Development Center and Spectrum Therapy Center. Morgan described seeing no Qualified Supervising Professional (QSP) or Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) at Milestone, being never asked to write session notes that support billing, and believing some children “did not appear to be autistic.” Those are serious operational and billing red flags when a program relies on session documentation and clinical oversight to justify Medicaid claims.
Public records and the Revalidate 2026 backdrop
Public business filings list Nimco Ahmed as CEO of Milestone Development Center, and Alpha News reports that Minnesota’s Department of Human Services has flagged both Milestone and Spectrum in the state’s Revalidate 2026 process. Revalidate 2026 is the DHS effort to re‑screen high‑risk Medicaid providers; it has already led to disenrollments and appeal filings. This comes against a larger backdrop of federal prosecutions and legislative reviews into EIDBI billing nationwide — a context that makes a former staffer’s accusations worth immediate, serious scrutiny.
Political fallout: why this matters to Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan
The story gets political because video and public appearances show Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan standing alongside Nimco Ahmed, whom Morgan and public records tie to Milestone. Flanagan is running for the U.S. Senate, and voters deserve straight answers: did the lieutenant governor know who she was endorsing? Did she ever vet this partner’s work with vulnerable children? Morgan even suggested there’s a chance Flanagan “was directly involved” with the actors now under scrutiny — an allegation that is explosive but unproven. That means Flanagan must explain, not deflect.
What is verified — and what still needs to be proved
Facts we can rely on: a new on‑the‑record interview made these allegations public; state business records name Nimco Ahmed as Milestone’s CEO; DHS is running the Minnesota Revalidate 2026 revalidation that can lead to disenrollment and appeals. What remains unverified in public documents is whether DHS will confirm, on the record, that Milestone and Spectrum are the specific subjects of open investigations or criminal probes. Nimco Ahmed and the Spectrum owner have denied wrongdoing, and DHS often cites confidentiality in active reviews. That’s not permission to shrug and move on — it’s a call for the agency to either confirm or clear these names quickly.
Bottom line: this is a fresh development that mixes alleged Medicaid fraud with political connections. Conservatives concerned about government waste and accountability should demand quick, transparent answers from DHS, prosecutors, and Lt. Gov. Flanagan’s campaign. Parents deserve honest care for their children, taxpayers deserve honest accounting, and politicians deserve to be judged by who they stand beside — not the photo op they’d prefer the voters forget.
