From KARE-11-TV,
Feeding Our Future defendant ordered to pay nearly $48M restitution:
Abdimajid Nur played a key role in the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country, prosecutors say.
Needless to say, were aren’t ever going to see that $48 million again. KARE reports,
Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, 24, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Nur was convicted at the first Feeding Our Future courtroom trial, held last year, along with four of his co-defendangs. Photographs of Nur’s honeymoon in the Maldives were featured as trial exhibits in the case. Prosecutors had requested a sentence of fourteen years.
KARE 11 notes that Nur has pled guilty in the related attempted juror bribery case, but has yet been sentenced for that separate crime.
Fresh from his stint as Acting U.S. Attorney, Joe Thompson returned to his usual role as lead prosecutor and made some comments during the sentencing hearing. Thompson noted that,
[Nur] participated in two of the most notorious crimes in the the history of the state of Minnesota.
As for the fraud component, Thompson characterized it as,
A monumental fraud that has rocked the state of Minnesota.
Beyond the sheer scale,
[It’s] a fraud that has called into question our institutions, our political leaders, and our way of life.
As for Nur himself,
This country offered the defendant everything. The opportunity for a life, the opportunity to live in peace. And he paid us back by playing us all for fools.”
For the sentence, Thompson argued,
We have to send a message that it cannot be worth it. Send that message loudly for all to hear. It is not worth it the steal from our govenment.
Nur will have a full decade to think it all over.
