The first batch of guilty pleas involving about 50 people charged in a $250 million scheme to defraud a federal meals program in Minnesota were entered Thursday in a Minneapolis courtroom.
Hadith Ahmed, 33, who worked for the Feeding Our Future program, became the first employee to plead guilty and testify about the fraud.
He admitted to taking more than $1.3 million in bribes to help other co-conspirators. The alleged $250 million fleecing of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future program targeted federal child nutrition programs that provide free meals to low-income children and adults.
Prosecutors are calling it the largest pandemic-related fraud in the U.S. Ahmed told U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel that the organization ran a "pay to play" system that required sites it sponsored to kick back a portion of the federal money they received in exchange for Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship, the Star Tribune reported.
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