The owner of Star Distribution has entered a guilty plea in the Feeding Our Future fraud case.
Suleman Yusuf Mohamed pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of wire fraud.
Star Distribution claimed to provide meals to food distribution sites supposedly operating under the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The business received around $10 million and prosecutors say Mohamed paid more than $330,000 in kickbacks to IM Consultation, which was owned by his sister, Ikram Mohamed.
Ikram Mohamed pleaded guilty last month.
With Suleman Mohamed’s guilty plea, Gandi Yusuf Mohamed is scheduled to be the only defendant at a jury trial later this month.
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IT & DATA SECURITY (MITIGATING THE “INSIDER THREAT”)
As seen in the TD Bank case, an employee with too much “access” can sell your customer data to syndicates.
- Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP): Employees should only have access to the specific folders and databases required for their current task.
- Access Revocation: Have a “Termination Checklist” that ensures all digital access (Email, VPN, Banking) is revoked within 60 minutes of an employee resigning or being dismissed.
- System Logs & Audit Trails: Enable “Read/Write Logging” on your server. If a customer’s data is leaked, you need to know exactly which login accessed that record and at what time.
- Encryption at Rest: Ensure that sensitive files (like your customer ID numbers or payroll spreadsheets) are encrypted so that if a staff member copies them to a USB, they cannot be read.