Behind the blue door. Hussein Mohamed Farah appeared in federal court in downtown Minneapolis this afternoon to enter the 47th guilty plea in the sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal.
Farah, the most recent defendant charged in the case (No. 73), became the 54th person convicted in the fraud.
He was the CEO of the St. Paul-based nonprofit New Vision Foundation, which was raided by the FBI back in May. His foundation reportedly took $2,7 million out of the free-food program.
This morning, Hayat Mohamed Nur (defendant No. 22) became just the 6th person sentenced in the case.
Nur had been convicted following the first jury trial held in the case last year, alongside her brother, Abdimajid Nur (No. 18) and three others, all part of the Empire Cuisine group of defendants.
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that she received a three-year prison sentence.
Her co-defendant Abdiaziz Farah (No. 15) received 28 years in prison, Mukhtar Shariff (No. 21) received 17 1/2, and Mohamed Ismail (No. 16) received 12 years.
