First guilty plea in Feeding Our Future bribery case
Abdimajid Mohamed Nur pled guilty today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis to one count of bribery of a juror in the Feeding Our Future case. It’s the first guilty…
Abdimajid Mohamed Nur pled guilty today in federal court in downtown Minneapolis to one count of bribery of a juror in the Feeding Our Future case. It’s the first guilty…
Deena Winter of MN Reformer names five names in a report today linking Feeding Our Future defendants with state-funded autism clinics. She reports: Five of the 70 defendants in the…
A “plea agreement hearing” has been scheduled for July 23 in Federal court in Minneapolis. The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 was the first to report on this new development…
That’s exactly the question posed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a remarkable article published today under the headline: Many millions lost. Is the Walz administration taking fraud and waste…
This morning, in the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was formally arraigned in the $120,000 juror bribery case arising from last month’s fraud trial in the Feeding…
After a series of hearings this morning at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, the three brothers appeared in sequence before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung. All three are pleading not…
The ranks of those charged in the sprawling free-food scandal grew by two this week and now stands at 72. Five were indicted this week in the $120,000 juror bribery…
In the Federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul this afternoon, the woman alleged to have delivered the $120,000 in cash to the house of Juror #52 in the recently concluded…
This morning, at the Federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced that five individuals have been indicted for attempting to bribe the juror in the recently concluded…
By popular demand, we’ve added a new feature to our coverage, tracking the status of each of the 70 defendants charged so far in the free-food scandal. So far, 23…
The state’s Legislative Audit office released the report this morning on the state Department of Education’s (MDE) mishandling of the Feeding Our Future scandal. A 120-page PDF of the report…
A number of media outlets are reporting that the FBI has raided more homes in connection with the incident where a juror in the recent case was bribed. The incident…
With the first trial in the sprawling free-food scandal now concluded, we consider the next steps for the remaining 40+ defendants in the case. Friday afternoon, after seven weeks of…
Two others were acquitted of all charges in the verdicts read this afternoon in Federal court in downtown Minneapolis. The remaining five were convicted of most of the charges they…
The end of Monday’s free-food trial session was as dramatic as its early morning beginning. Monday morning, I wrote about the revelation that Sunday night, a Somali woman visited the…
In a court case full of surprises, the biggest one yet dropped this morning. Seven (7) defendants in the Feeding Our Future scandal are in a Minneapolis Federal courtroom, on…