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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Steve Karnowski

A third defendant pleads guilty to juror bribery in massive Minnesota food fraud case

Food Fraud-Minnesota - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A third defendant pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in an attempt to bribe a juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for acquittals in a massive COVID-19-related fraud case in Minnesota.

Abdulkarim Shafii Farah pleaded guilty to one count of bribery of a juror. He was the third of five defendants to admit to federal charges arising from the bribery case, which broke last year during the first trial of people charged in the Feeding Our Future scandal. Two of the seven defendants in that trial were Farah's brothers.

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