(KNSI) — Three defendants in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme are heading to prison for their roles in the $250 million scam that exploited the Federal Child Nutrition Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Forty-year-old Abdihakim Ali Ahmed of Apple Valley was sentenced to four and a half years for wire fraud and money laundering. Thirty-five-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi of Minneapolis received just over five years on the same charges. Both pleaded guilty in 2025.
Forty-three-year-old Ahmed Sharif Omar-Hashim of Minneapolis was sentenced to three years for wire fraud. He pleaded guilty in December 2023…