Muna Wais Fidhin, of Burnsville, become the 75th defendant indicted in the sprawling free-food scandal. Fidhin made her first appearance this afternoon at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul. She was released on bond.
Fidhin is charged with 10 felony counts: three wire fraud, four bribery and three money laundering. She ran a company, M5 Cafe, and a nonprofit M5 Care, that I wrote about here and here. Her operation was discussed in the indictment of Hoda Ali Abdi, defendant No. 70.
Here food distribution site operated under the sponsorship of the St. Paul-based Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care.
In addition, an exhibit filed in the most recent Feeding Our Future courtroom case indicates that her M5 Cafe took more than $500,000 out of that nonprofit.
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