Defendants in a $40M pandemic fraud case are accused of attempting to bribe a juror for $120,000.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have accused defendants Mukhtar Shariff and Abdiaziz Farah of attempting to bribe a juror for $120,000 in a fraud case involving a $40 million conspiracy to steal from a federal child nutrition program during the pandemic. The defendants used an encrypted messaging app to plan the bribery and surveilled the juror, believing she might be sympathetic due to her race. The scheme was uncovered when the juror reported the bribery attempt to the police.

November 19, 2024
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