US EditionFeds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, for attempting to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K
- Five individuals were charged with attempting to bribe a Minnesota juror with $120,000 for acquitting defendants in a COVID-19 fraud case, as announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI.
- Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Said Shafii Farah, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, and Ladan Mohamed Ali faced charges related to jury tampering.
- The defendants allegedly targeted a juror designated as 'Juror 52' because of her age and being the only person of color on the panel, but she resisted their bribe attempts.
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5 Charged for Attempted Juror Bribery in ‘Feeding Our Future’ Fraud Trial
Five people were charged on June 26 for allegedly attempting to bribe a juror in the fraud trial associated with “Feeding Our Future” in Minnesota, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. According to the DOJ, the five individuals conspired with one another to bribe an unnamed juror—identified only as “Juror 52” in court documents—with $120,000 in exchange for her returning a not-guilty verdict in the Feeding Our Future fraud trial, which too…
Five charged, including man acquitted at trial, for attempting to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Five people were charged on Wednesday for trying to bribe a juror in one of the country’s largest pandemic aid fraud cases with a bag of $120,000 in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. The bribe attempt, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson previously called “an attack on our criminal justice system,” brought renewed attention to the trial of seven Minnesota defendants accused of coordinatin…
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