Feeding Our Future was a nonprofit organization founded by Aimee Bock, 44, of Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, United States in 2016. Its tax status as a nonprofit was revoked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in February 2020.
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During the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Feeding Our Future exploited a federally funded child nutrition program. On September 20, 2022, a total of 47 former employees of the organization were charged for their involvement in a $250 million fraud scheme.
On April 22, 2024, seven defendants went to trial before U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel for their roles in the fraud scheme. Among the defendants are Said Shafii Farah, then 42, of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, then 35, of Savage, Scott County, Minnesota, Ladan Mohamed Ali, then 31, of Seattle, Washington, USA, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, then 24, of Minneapolis and Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, then 23, of Shakopee, Scott County.
During the trial, Said, Abdiaziz, Ali, Abdulkarim and Nur conducted online research to obtain personal information of the youngest member of the jury, who is a woman. The conspirators surveilled the juror’s residence and obtained information about her daily habits.
As the juror left the courthouse during the trial, she was followed home by one of the conspirators. A global positioning system (GPS) tracking device was covertly installed on her vehicle by the conspirators, who obtained around $200,000 in cash to be delivered and paid to her as a bribe.
On May 30, 2024, Ali flew from Seattle to Minneapolis to carry out the bribery scheme. On May 31, 2024, she tried to follow the juror’s residence as the latter left a parking ramp in Minneapolis at the conclusion of the first day of closing arguments in the trial.
On June 2, 2024, Abdiaziz instructed Nur to meet him at Said’s business Bushra Wholesalers to pick up the bribe money. That day, the money was transferred from Said to Nur to Ali then Abdulkarim and Ali went to the juror’s residence, handed $120,000 to a relative of juror 52 and explained that the money was a present in exchange for a not guilty verdict.
Ali promised told the relative that there would be more money if the juror voted to acquit all the defendants. Abdulkarim filmed Ali dropping off the bribe money at the juror’s residence and sent the video to Abdiaziz, who then forwarded the video to Said.
On June 17, 2025, Abdiaziz pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a juror before Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court. The date of his sentencing hearing has yet to be announced.
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