HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — A Minnesotan married couple pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, through which hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen from the federal government.
Ikram Yusuf Mohamed and Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam admitted in plea agreements to helping defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program, which provided free meals to children in need, during the pandemic.
Mohamed, who worked as a consultant for Feeding Our Future, misappropriated program funds from the end of 2020 to the start of 2022. She received $1.3 million in payments from people involved in the scheme and helped her family and friends defraud the federal government of millions more.
Abdisalam, the head of an organization sponsored by Feeding Our Future, took more than $1.5 million in program funds, most of which he gave to his conspirators. His organization claimed…
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