An Eden Prairie woman pleaded guilty Friday to collecting fraudulent payments from federal child nutrition funds.
Hibo Daar, 51, claimed to run a site called Northside Wellness Center that distributed free meals to kids in Minneapolis. She pleaded guilty to fraudulently filing for reimbursement for thousands of meals that she never served.
Daar pleaded guilty to collecting nearly $1.8 million from the nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future for those fraudulent claims. FBI forensic accountants say that Northside spent less than $2,000 of that money on food…