Feeding Our Future defendant Zamzam Jama was sentenced this morning to six months in jail for her role in the free-food scandal. Prosecutors had requested a sentence of 16 months in prison.
She was one of six defendants from the extended Jama family, associated with the Brava Restaurant of Rochester, indicted back in September 2022. One of the group died of natural causes back in 2023.
All of the remaining Jama defendants have pled guilty and Zamzam is the first of the Jama group to be sentenced.
She owes restitution of more than $491,000 in the case, and she will spend a year on probation after her release from jail.
