Bloomington Woman Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme

MINNEAPOLIS - The last remaining defendant in the November 4, 2024, trial in the Haji's Kitchen indictment has pleaded guilty to her role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

According to court documents, in February 2020, Farhiya Mohamud, 65, of Bloomington, created Dua Supplies & Distribution Inc. ("Dua Supplies"), a business that purported to supply food to paying customers. Mohamud's customers participated as vendors in the Federal Child Nutrition Program, including co-defendants Haji Osman Salad and Fahad Nur. The money from Salad and Nur, which purported to be for "food supply" or "food services," accounted for most of the funds that Mohamud deposited into her business bank accounts. In reality, Mohamud knew that she purchased relatively minimal amounts of food and thus supplied little, if any, food to Salad and Nur. Instead, she used the funds to purchase real estate, which she did at the direction of her son, Sharmarke Issa, and for his benefit.

Mohamud, who is the 23^rd defendant to plead guilty to charges relating to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, appeared today in U.S. District Court before Judge Nancy E. Brasel and pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later time.

This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI, IRS - Criminal Investigations, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew S. Ebert, Joseph H. Thompson, and Harry M. Jacobs are prosecuting the case.