A new court document details what federal prosecutors in Minnesota say was a frantic effort by defendants to get a juror to vote for an acquittal in a pandemic fraud case.
Mukhtar Shariff is among five people convicted in the case earlier this year. In a supplement to a presentencing report for Shariff filed Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota alleges that Shariff and co-defendant Abdiaziz Farah communicated about a $120,000 cash bribe using an encrypted messaging app called Signal.
