Crime & Safety

Bloomington Man Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud In $250M Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme

Abdulkadir Awale falsely claimed that through his businesses, he provided food for more than 3.6 million meals at various state sites.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A Bloomington man has plead guilty to his role in the $250 million federally-funded child nutrition program, Feeding Our Future, fraud scheme.

According to the defendant's guilty plea and court documents, Abdulkadir Awale, 50, admitted that he knowingly participated in a fraudulent scheme with the intent to "obtain and misappropriate" millions in federal program funding from April 2020 through 2022.

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