Authorities tracked down a Minnesota fraud suspect in Mogadishu, Somalia, and arrested him on June 25—nearly four years after he was first charged in the nation’s largest COVID-19 pandemic scam.
Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was allegedly “one of the orchestrators of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme,” the Justice Department said in a June 26 news release.
He and 46 others tied to the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future were originally charged in September 2022. Dozens of additional defendants have been charged since then, officials said, and most were of Somali descent.
The nonprofit operated more than 200 meal sites across Minnesota, officials said at the time of the original 2022 indictments. Altogether, they allegedly reaped nearly $250 million during the pandemic. …