A fraud case with a very large billFederal prosecutors say Shamso Ahmed Hassan and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf helped steer a Medicaid autism program into a $21.1 million drain. They are accused of filing nearly $47 million in false claims under Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, then collecting real money for therapy that investigators say never happened. The charges include conspiracy, health care fraud, and money laundering. In other words, the paperwork was busy, the services were not, and taxpayers once again got the invoice. How prosecutors say the scam workedAccording to investigators, Hassan ran two clinics, Smart Therapy Center and Star Autism Center, while hiding her ownership to keep claims flowing under Minnesota's disclosure rules. Prosecutors say Yusuf handled day-to-day operations, submitted fake paperwork, and helped push the scheme along. The indictment says parents were paid to enroll children in the program, even when the children had no autism diagnosis, and that kickbacks were disguised as normal business expenses. Some money was routed through shell companies and sent overseas, which is a nice reminder that fraudsters tend to love the same tools as ordinary accountants, only with worse intentions. Minnesota's fraud habit is getting expensiveThis case lands…

A tense scene outside Delaney HallLate Wednesday in Newark, the area around the Delaney Hall detention center turned into a mess that looked less like public order and more like a group project nobody wanted to lead. Fox News Digital found hundreds gathered near the vehicle entrance, while the other entrance had a protester medical tent and what looked like a commissary. Doremus Avenue, already a rough industrial strip, was lined with people, trash, and enough agitation to make a city press office reach for the quietest possible statement. Protesters were not just demonstrating. They were taking over the jobs that usually belong to police, which is a bold way to handle civil unrest and a terrible way to handle civil unrest.Traffic control by costumeBy 9 p.m. ET, protesters had reduced Doremus Avenue to one lane and were directing traffic in reflective vests as if buying a vest at a hardware store made them deputized. Big rigs and other large vehicles moved through the area while a lone Essex County sheriff's deputy briefly told the crowd to get onto the sidewalk, then disappeared almost as quickly as he arrived. Some protesters even picked up trash along the side of the…