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Abdi Nur Salah drew 33 months in the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition fraud case. He is the 31st defendant sentenced.
Abdi Nur Salah, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced Oct. 1 to 33 months in federal prison for his role in the roughly $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel imposed the term after Salah pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2025. The U.S. Attorney's Office said he received about $1.66 million in program funds.
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A federal fraud sentence after a guilty plea is a conviction result. Prosecutors said Salah used Stigma-Free International meal sites sponsored by Feeding Our Future and shell companies to move child-nutrition reimbursements into real estate and businesses. FOX 9 and KSTP covered the sentencing of the former Minneapolis mayor's aide. Restitution figures in local reports are court-ordered money judgments, not a new guilt finding.
United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Salah was sentenced Oct. 1, 2026, in Minneapolis. The office said he was indicted Sept. 13, 2022, pleaded guilty Jan. 28, 2025, and is the 31st defendant sentenced in the Feeding Our Future scheme. A count of defendants sentenced is a case tally. It does not change the elements proved against Salah by his plea.
Court papers summarized by prosecutors say that after Minnesota stopped approving restaurant and for-profit food sites, Salah acquired nonprofit Stigma-Free International and transferred ownership to co-conspirators who opened Federal Child Nutrition Program sites in Willmar, Mankato, St. Cloud, Waite Park, and St. Paul. From November 2020 to November 2021, the government said co-conspirators fraudulently claimed nearly five million meals, and Feeding Our Future paid out more than $10 million in reimbursements to those sites. Salah, the office said, created shell companies, laundered his share, and received about $1,660,000. Those are the government's plea facts.
FOX 9 identified Salah as a former aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and reported the 33-month term. KSTP published courtroom-area photography with its sentencing coverage. Prosecutors credited the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. A press-statement quote about stealing funds meant for children is advocacy language from the government. The operative court result is the term Judge Brasel imposed on the plea.
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