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Minneapolis man who tried to bribe juror in $250M welfare fraud scandal learns his fate
Story by Victor Nava
A Minneapolis man will spend nearly five years behind bars for attempting to bribe a juror during a federal trial related to Minnesota’s infamous $250 million welfare fraud scandal.Abdulkarim Farah, 25, was sentenced by District Court Judge Eric Tostrud Wednesday to 57 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in providing a bribe – in the form of a gift bag full of $120,000 in cash – to a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial.
In April 2024, two of Farah’s brothers were set to stand trial in the massive pandemic fraud case, when the trio hatched a plan to bribe Juror 52 in an effort to secure a not guilty verdict, according to federal prosecutors.
Farah’s brothers were among dozens of predominantly Somali co-conspirators accused of stealing pandemic relief funds from a federal program meant to feed hungry children in need.
As part of their bribery plot, Farah “conducted surveillance” of Juror 52 and then recruited co-defendant Ladan Ali to deliver the bribe.
Farah unscrewed the license plates off a rental car – “to avoid detection by law enforcement” – before he drove Ali to the juror’s home on the night of June 2, 2024, and recorded a video of her delivering the bribe, prosecutors said, citing Farah’s plea agreement.
The Post previously reported that a Hallmark gift bag containing $120,000 cash and a note promising even more money if Juror 52 voted to acquit was delivered to her home just a few hours before closing arguments in the case.
An FBI affidavit said the Hallmark gift bag the juror received was stuffed with rolls of $20, $50 and $100 bills, and the note read, “This is for Juror 52,” The New York Times reported. “Tell her there will be another bag for her if she votes to acquit.”
The juror told the judge about the bribery attempt the following day.
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A fool and his money…..
I wonder if Juror 52 got to keep (some of) the money once she reported the bribe attempt to the judge?
Hope she did.
Perhaps the bag contained $125k instead of 120. Finder’s fee? Reward for turning in the attempt? Really classy move there by the scumbags to film the deed.
The S&W model 28, four inch was my first firearm. It helped me learn the basics of shooting including what was then known as combat pistol league competition. In order to compete I also had to learn reloading because factory rounds were out of my college budget. It was also my first duty gun as the old model 15 I was issued rattled like a shaken spray paint can and shaved lead so badly I had to always shoot on the far right side of the shooting line or the person next to me got sprayed. The armorer said it was fine. I gave it back and used my own revolver.
I later bought a 6 inch version that I found on sale in a local gun store and that became my primary competition pistol for a while. I still have it, 50 years later.
The same frame was used in the much shinier model 27 as well as the model 29 in 44 mag. Hell for stout.
I was issued the S&W Mod.10 .38 4 in. Bull Barrel that replaced the pencil barrel Mod 10’s.. I used that for combat matches with our Brink’s pistol team and used my S&W
Mod. 14 .38 6 in barrel and had a Bomar rib and Bomar target sights installed. The rib put a little weight on the pencil barrel to even the weight.. Used that for Police EL bullseye matches. Combat matches were something else using belt mounted drop pouches and trying to beat the clock on the 12 foot 12 rd shoot. I think we had 25 seconds but don’t remember and the LEOS who were in the same matches had to wait for us to finish. They had semi autos. This was back in the early 1970’s. We finaly went to semi autos right after 9/11. S&W MOD 4046’s. After I retired after 37 years in 2007, I found out that Brink’s went to another S&W model but forgot which..
Those fools sure put themselves in even deeper oobalah-booblah!
Made the mistake of thinking that their tribe power extended from Mogadishu to Minneapolis.
Silly Somalis.
Dumbasses.