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Five Defendants Plead Guilty to Wire Fraud, Totaling $14.6 Million in Stolen Funds

MINNEAPOLIS – In a significant blow to the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, five defendants have pleaded guilty to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.

The five defendants, Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, Aisha Hassan Hussein, Sahra Sharif Osman, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, and Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf, were charged in United States v. Mohamed et al., 24-cr-15 (NEB/DTS) and had been set to proceed to trial before Judge Nancy E. Brasel on April 20, 2026.

The group, which included multiple family members and friends of defendant Ikram Mohamed, purported to run food program sites in Minneapolis and its suburbs, as well as a food distribution entity. They worked together to steal and then launder $14.6 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program money that was meant to feed hungry children during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, 42, was a leader in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme through her role as a consultant to Feeding Our Future. Mohamed opened several food sites that were enrolled in and received over $6.9 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. To conceal her involvement, she put the sites and entities in the name of family members, including her husband, mother, and siblings.

Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, 46, Ikram Mohamed’s husband, participated in the scheme to defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program with his wife and other family conspirators through a company called Inspiring Youth & Outreach LLC (Inspiring Youth). Inspiring Youth purported to run a food site in Minneapolis. Between February and November 2021, the company fraudulently claimed to have served more than 1 million meals. He and his conspirators also supported their program reimbursement claims with phony attendance rosters purporting to document the children they fed. Those rosters listed made-up children with fake ages.

The Justice Department is committed to rooting out fraud in federal programs for the benefit of the American people. U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen praised his team of prosecutors, federal agents, and law enforcement partners for their tireless efforts in exposing the rampant fraud in Minnesota.

The defendants had pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud each, with Ikram Yusuf Mohamed pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud and Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud.

The Trump Administration has made fighting fraud a top priority, just this week establishing the President’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a multiagency effort dedicated to protecting benefits meant for American citizens in need.