MINNEAPOLIS — Said Farah, a defendant in the first Feeding Our Future trial who was found not guilty in the underlying fraud case, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Aug. 21, to trying to bribe a juror.

On June 3, 2024, as closing arguments were underway in the trial of seven people accused of stealing more than $47 million from taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs, U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel halted the proceedings and ordered FBI agents to seize the defendants’ phones after prosecutors revealed that someone connected to the defendants had delivered a Hallmark gift bag with $120,000 to a juror’s home and promised more cash in exchange for an acquittal.

After Brasel replaced the woman, who’s been identified publicly as Juror 52, defense attorneys concluded their closing arguments, and

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