Prosecutors are asking a judge to jail a defendant in the next Feeding Our Future trial for allegedly trying to stop a cooperator from testifying. Abdiwahab Ahmed Mohamud is the second defendant in the sprawling case accused of witness tampering.

Mohamud, 35, is one of 76 people charged with defrauding federally-funded child nutrition programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars during COVID. Nearly three quarters of the defendants have been convicted, mostly after entering into plea deals with the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office. Mohamud is maintaining his innocence and faces trial starting Oct. 14.

In a filing Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melinda Williams and Dan Bobier write that Mohamud met twice with an unnamed cooperating defendant, called the person a snitch and cursed

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