Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Sahra Nur ordered to pay $5M in restitution

Sahra Mohamed Nur, 63, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States is a caterer who owned and operated S&S Catering. She was involved in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Feeding Out Future

In 2016, Aimee Brock established a nonprofit organization in Minnesota called Feeding Our Future. In February 2020, its tax status as a nonprofit was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service.

As the S&S Catering owner, Nur enrolled in the program as a food distribution site under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. The catering business operated as a vendor for other food distribution sites affiliated with the nonprofit organization.

Between September 2020 and April 2021, Nur claimed to have served more than 1.2 million meals to children from S&S Catering alone. Between December 2020 and December 2021, sites who used her business as a vendor reported serving more than eight million meals through the food program.

Based on these fraudulent claims, S&S Catering received more than $10 million in payment from the companies it purportedly served food to and more than $16 million in reimbursements from Feeding Our Future. Nur misappropriated the funds for her own personal benefit instead of feeding children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sahra Nur

On September 20, 2022, Nur and seven other defendants were charged in a 23-count indictment. The other defendants are her fellow Minneapolis resident Guhaad Hashi Said, 46, Brooklyn, Minnesota residents Qamar Ahmed Hassan, then 53, Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud, then 32, and Filsan Mumin Hassan, then 28, Abdullahe Nur Jesow, then 62, of Columbia Heights, Minnesota, Abdul Abubakar Ali, then 40, of St. Paul, Minnesota and Yusuf Bashir Ali, then 40, of Vadnais Heights, Minnesota.

Nur is a former resident of Saint Anthony, Minnesota. On September 7, 2023, she pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.

On May 22, 2025, Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Nur to 51 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release. The Minneapolis caterer was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,000,240.