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Posted on 08/09/2025 5:17:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
United States District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, age 36, to 28 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a $300 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally program to feed hungry kids during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Farah helped orchestrate the largest known COVID-19 fraud scheme called Feeding Our Future in Minnesota. Farah and his co-defendants stole more than $47 million by claiming to serve 18 million meals to kids at more than 30 food distribution sites.
Farah was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $47,920,514. He's the 73rd person charged in connection to the scheme.
In June 2024, after a seven-week trial before Judge Brasel, a federal jury convicted Farah of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, false statements in a passport application, conspiracy to commit money laundering, two counts of federal programs bribery, six counts of wire fraud, and 11 counts of money laundering.
Farah was the co-owner of Empire Cuisine & Market, an entity that he enrolled in the Federal Child Nutrition Program in April 2020, during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Farah was among the very first defendants to see an opportunity for fraud and exploit it. Farah immediately opened a number of fraudulent program sites and began falsely claiming to serve meals to thousands of children per day.
Many of the purported “sites” served no meals at all and were nothing more than parking lots or vacant commercial spaces. Farah and his co-defendants “papered-up” the fraudulent scheme, including by creating and submitting fraudulent meal counts and invoices.
Farah was involved in the scheme’s use of phony rosters with fake children’s names.
Few of the names on the rosters matched the names of real students attending...
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“28 years in prison”
sweet....
Seems harsh given the amount stolen by the Clinton Foundation versus prison sentence.
I wonder how many liberal idiots donated to this piece of garbage.
Walz is getting nervous. This kind of fraud by the skinnies has gone unchecked for years here. Now that President Trump controls the DOJ the Feds are looking into this and they will see that all this crime was ignored since they keep Walz in office.
They're doing the work American's won't do.
They took in 47 million dollars before the people dispersing the funds noticed something wrong?
Isn’t there anyone taking a look at who wins the money and then some looking at their programs?
Seems like an inspector could do some walk throughs and spot checks to at last pick up a gut feeling if the program was real, or if it needed a deeper examination.
The people dispersing the funds also need to be looked at, for at least firing for incompetence, but also looked at for possibly having motives for passing unqualified applications, such as racial favoritism or bribes.
“”””They took in 47 million dollars before the people dispersing the funds noticed something wrong?
Isn’t there anyone taking a look at who wins the money and then some looking at their programs?
Seems like an inspector could do some walk throughs and spot checks to at last pick up a gut feeling if the program was real, or if it needed a deeper examination.”””
Walz and his corrupt administration look the other way in exchange for votes. The skinnies are sacred cows here. They can do no wrong.
Expel all Muslims.
So HOT..I mean NOT guilty!
Yep, “unravel it” start at the beginning and follow it to the end, that sends a message.
Well deserved.
Some of those doing the thieving Americans just wont do.
I wonder what the punishment would be in their home country?
“in their home country?”
......amputation
I read somewhere that the average IQ for someone from Somalia is 68.
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