Key Facts — All Alleged
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| Who | Not specified |
| Amount | Not disclosed |
| Location | Not specified |
| Program | Not specified |
| Status | Alleged |
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Our top story at 6, more and more court hearings, all connected to the Feeding Our Future fraud case. » As many as 80 people have been indicted. Many of them are taking deals admitting their guilt and not going to trial. However, one man is digging in his heels. Fox 9’s Rob Olsen joins us live at the federal courthouse. And Rob, tell us about this man’s plea in this situation. Well, you know, this was uh involving a group of seven people, all charged together, all set to go on trial together in a few weeks. Six of the seven, by the way, are family members. Well, many of them, six of them appear to be taking plea deals, but one man today said he will still go to trial by himself. Gandhi Ysef Muhammad declined to comment leaving federal court in Minneapolis Wednesday just minutes after a hearing in which he also declined to take a plea deal for his alleged role in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Even as others indicted along with him are taking the same deal. To date, nearly 80 people have been indicted as part of the Feeding Our Future investigation totaling a4 billion dollar in fraud. One year ago, Amy Bach, the Feing Our Future founder and described by prosecutors as ring leader of the scheme, was found guilty after a six-week trial. She is still awaiting sentencing. But during her trial in, plea deals from others accelerated. Last September, the US Attorney’s Office announced the milestone of a 56 guilty plea. Gandhi Muhammad, the one who declined a plea deal now, was one of seven charged as a group two years ago. All were set to go on trial together in April. But now he’ll be on trial by himself. Because also Wednesday, Muhammad’s sister, Ikram Muhammad, in the beige headscarf and her husband, Shakur Abd Salam, in the tan jacket. Both took plea deals, pleading guilty to single counts of wire fraud, admitting in court during their plea hearings to setting up sham meal sites for kids, billing millions for food never served, and laundering money. Now, four more plea hearings are set here for Friday morning. All are listed as change of plea hearings and the judge even noted today that again six now of these seven will be taking plea deals noting this one man will be going to trial by himself. Uh he said he understood that entered his not guilty plea and the judge said see you in April. Live in Minneapolis, Robbles, Fox