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 people charged with attempting to bribe Feeding Our Future juror • Minnesota Reformer
The Warren E. Burger Federal Building and United States Courthouse in St. Paul. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted five people for attempting to bribe a juror in the Feeding Our Future fraud trial, in a case that is likely to raise questions about juror security in high-profile criminal trials. Three of the people charged with bribery were on trial for stealing $49 million from a federal program in…
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