With 76 defendants, and counting, the wheels of justice continue to grind on in the Feeding Our Future scandal. A preview of November:
November 5: Defendant No. 38, Khadar Adan, will be sentenced for his role in the case. As I wrote earlier, it looks like he will skate without receiving any prison time. Adan will become the 7th defendant sentenced, overall, in the fraud case.
November 10: Defendant No. 18, Abdimajid Nur, will be sentenced. He was convicted after the first Feeding Our Future courtroom trial, which concluded in June 2024.
TBD: Yet to be scheduled is the upcoming sentencing of Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, for his role in the attempted juror bribery scheme arising from that 2024 courtroom trial. Farah was never charged in the underlying fraud case, but is the younger half-brother of Defendant Nos. 15 and 19. Farah’s plea agreement calls for a prison sentence in the range of 4 to 5 years.
His attorney is asking for a downward departure at sentencing, with a prison sentence of time served. Farah has been in custody for more than a year.
In a court filing made late last week his attorney tells a remarkably unremarkable tale of woe for Farah. Born in Minneapolis in 2000, Farah spent some of his pre-teen years living in Kenya. And that’s it.
The biggest item on the calendar isn’t coming up until April 2026, when a seven-person group of defendants (Nos. 63-69) is scheduled to stand trial. These seven are the group including and related to Ikram Mohamed, a former Feeding Our Future employee.
