“I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Erica McDonald, a former federal prosecutor. We’ve only seen it in movies, and even Hollywood wouldn’t have staged a jury bribe so dramatic as the attempt to corrupt the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud trial in Minneapolis. The case involves allegations of millions in federal grants allegedly disappearing into the pockets of the leaders of FOF.
That includes, of course, the $120,000 in rolled-up currency in the Hallmark bag presented to Juror 52 to get a vote for acquittal. The juror called the FBI, which set off a sequence of events that culminated — so far — in the FBI raid on a house in Savage, MN. The home belonged to defendant and alleged FOF mastermind Abdiaziz Farah.
And guess how Farah bought the house two years ago? KARE 11’s Lou Raguse explains:
FBI agents investigating the source of a $120,000 juror bribe…
