The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota is citing a recent exodus of top prosecutors in that office in a motion to delay the trial of a defendant in the sprawling fraud investigation of Feeding Our Future.
The motion for a continuance, filed Monday afternoon, seeks to push back the trial of Abdirahman Ahmed, who was among several people charged with money laundering in 2022.
A jury convicted one of Ahmed’s business partners, Salim Said, along with Feeding Our Future’s founder, Aimee Bock, last year.
Now the government says it will not be able to “adequately prepare” for Ahmed’s trial in June.
The motion cites another upcoming trial of seven defendants in April as well as “significant staffing changes” at the U.S. Attorney’s Office earlier this year.
Top prosecutor Joe Thompson and several others quit in January. A New York Times report said the attorneys resigned amid pressure to…
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.