From a MN AG press release,
Court awards State nearly $2.5 million in damages and penalties in False Claims Act case.
Details,
Hennepin County District Court has ordered that Emaldeldin Ibrahim pay $2,481,310.08 in damages, civil penalties, and attorneys’ fees to the State of Minnesota for making fraudulent submissions for reimbursement under the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
I wrote about this civil (not criminal) case back in April, the last lime Keith Ellison’s office issued a press release on the topic. The case involves Ibrahim’s hijacking of a legitimate nonprofit, the Sudanese-American Community Association, to falsely bill the child food program for $188,000 for meals never served.
It’s difficult to give Ellison, or even the state Dept. of Education (MDE), any credit for the final result, as the case began with Mr. Ibrahim as the plaintiff, filing a lawsuit back in September 2022 against the Sudanese association. for $138,000. The Sudanese responded to Ibrahim’s original lawsuit claiming his request for money was fraudulent.
Ibrahim’s original lawyers quit the case in August 2023. By the time the case went to trial in April 2026, the caption had flipped, with MDE now the plaintiff and Ibrahim the defendant.
The original claim by Ibrahim against the Sudanese association had mutated, with fees and penalties to a multi-million-dollar verdict against Ibrahim.
We wish AG Ellison all the luck in the world in collecting this judgment.
