MINNEAPOLIS — Two more people have pleaded guilty in connection with the Feeding Our Future COVID relief fraud scheme.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota, Abdulkadir Nur Salah and Abdi Nur Salah both pleaded guilty Tuesday. Their sentencings have not yet been scheduled.
Both of them "knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud a federal child nutrition program designed to provide free meals to children in need," the attorney's office said.
Abdulkadir Nur Salah co-owned and operated a restaurant that received more than $16 million in fraudulent funds, the attorney's office said, while Abdi Nur Salah registered a nonprofit used to perpetrate the fraud scheme.
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