MINNEAPOLIS — A Feeding Our Future employee on Thursday admitted to taking more than $1.3 million in bribes to help other co-conspirators defraud a federal child nutrition program as part of the nation's largest pandemic fraud case.
Hadith Yusuf Ahmed, 33, and two other defendants entered the first guilty pleas in a Minneapolis federal courtroom Thursday in an ongoing federal case that has so far yielded nearly 50 arrests with more indictments expected.
Ahmed, who was responsible for monitoring sponsor sites for Feeding Our Future, is the first person who worked for the nonprofit to testify about the organization's role atop the $250 million conspiracy to steal money meant to feed needy children. He admitted that it operated a "pay to play" system that required sites to kick back a portion of the federal money they received in exchange for Feeding Our Future's sponsorship and help submitting fraudulent claims.
