MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 6, sentenced a key figure in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme to 28 years in prison.

The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office calls Abdiaziz Farah “one of the early movers” in a conspiracy to fleece taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic.

Farah, 36, was a co-owner of Empire Cuisine and Market, a small Shakopee, Minnesota, restaurant that operated fake meal sites under the sponsorship of the nonprofits Feeding Our Future and Partners in Quality Care, also known as Partners in Nutrition.

In 2024, jurors convicted Farah and four of his six co-defendants of stealing more than $47 million by submitting false reimbursement claims backed by phony invoices and meal attenda

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