A company federal prosecutors claim was used to launder money for the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme owns properties throughout the Twin Cities where taxpayer-funded group homes operate.
GAK Properties LLC owns at least five houses that function as group homes for Minnesotans with disabilities. Federal prosecutors allege that Gandi Abdi Kediye used the same company to launder nearly $1 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds during the pandemic. He was indicted in early 2024 and has pleaded not guilty. The group homes, three of which are managed by Kediye’s wife, have billed the state for millions of dollars in the two years since his indictment.
Although several of Kediye’s relatives were also charged in the Feeding Our Future scheme, his wife, Samsam Mohamed, was not. Because of that, the Minnesota Department of Health, which licenses the group homes, and the Minnesota Department of Human Services, which disburses their funding, say they have no legal basis to take action against the group homes…