U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel on Monday imposed a 10-year prison term on the latest defendant to be sentenced in the Feeding Our Future case. Abdimajid M. Nur was one of five people connected to a small Shakopee restaurant convicted at a 2024 trial of stealing $47 million from government child nutrition programs during the pandemic.

The Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office says the scheme, centered around the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was the nation’s largest COVID-19-related fraud and ultimately cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nur, 24, is the youngest of the 78 defendants charged in the case since September 2022. Soon after the jury convicted him of wire fraud and money laundering, Nur pleaded guilty in a related scheme to bribe one of the jurors. Nur face

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