{"id":180189,"date":"2026-03-06T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=180189"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:37:18","slug":"daily-fgs-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=180189","title":{"rendered":"Daily FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nSmith & Wesson Highway Patrolman<\/a><\/p>\n

Minneapolis man who tried to bribe juror in $250M welfare fraud scandal learns his fate<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story by Victor Nava
\nA Minneapolis man will spend nearly five years behind bars for attempting to bribe a juror during a federal trial related to Minnesota\u2019s infamous $250 million welfare fraud scandal.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 in the form of a gift bag full of $120,000 in cash \u2013 to a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial.<\/p>\n

In April 2024, two of Farah\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Farah\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

As part of their bribery plot, Farah \u201cconducted surveillance\u201d of Juror 52 and then recruited co-defendant Ladan Ali to deliver the bribe.<\/p>\n

Farah unscrewed the license plates off a rental car \u2013 \u201cto avoid detection by law enforcement\u201d \u2013 before he drove Ali to the juror\u2019s home on the night of June 2, 2024, and recorded a video of her delivering the bribe, prosecutors said, citing Farah\u2019s plea agreement.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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, \u201cThis is for Juror 52,\u201d The New York Times reported. \u201cTell her there will be another bag for her if she votes to acquit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The juror told the judge about the bribery attempt the following day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No Score
\nMSN<\/a><\/p>\n

Tampon Tim was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
\n\u2014 Joseph Story<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smith & Wesson Highway Patrolman 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\u2019s infamous $250 million welfare fraud scandal. Abdulkarim Farah, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":180191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/smith_wesson_model_28.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-KSh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/180191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}