On Tuesday, Yahoo News<\/a> posted an article about Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, Minnesota.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n A Minnesota man whose food site received more than $5.4 million after falsely claiming to serve about 1.6 million meals to children has been sentenced to 6\u00bd years in federal prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, received a 78-month sentence on Aug. 18 for wire fraud in the massive Feeding Our Future case, according to the latest reporting from FOX 9<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n But the fraud itself was not the only conduct that affected his punishment. While another Feeding Our Future trial was underway in February 2025, Abshir approached a cooperating witness who was preparing to testify and asked the man to go into a courthouse bathroom with him to talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n Abshir later acknowledged that the encounter amounted to obstruction of justice through attempted witness tampering. At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the courthouse conduct was a primary reason for the 78-month term.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to an article posted at Power Line Blog<\/a> on Tuesday:<\/p>\n Abdinasir Abshir, Feeding Our Future defendant No. 10 (out of 80), was sentenced to 6-and-a-half years in federal prison in a hearing this afternoon. He was ordered to repay the more than $2 million he personally took out of the scheme.<\/strong><\/p>\n Where do the taxpayers go to get the rest of the $5.4 million?<\/p>\n Yahoo News reports:<\/p>\n Abshir transferred millions of dollars from Horseed Management to himself and other people involved in the scheme. Some of the money went to Calikamin Enterprise, another shell company Abshir created. He also used fraud proceeds to purchase a 2021 Range Rover, which federal authorities seized for forfeiture.<\/strong><\/p>\n Prosecutors say Abshir paid more than $100,000 in bribes and kickbacks to Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee, in exchange for helping sponsor and facilitate Stigma-Free Mankato’s participation in the federal nutrition program.<\/strong><\/p>\n Feeding Our Future received nearly $420,000 in administrative fees for sponsoring the site, according to the Justice Department. Abshir also paid $5,750 into a GoFundMe account created for Feeding Our Future in December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n I am not impressed with the sentencing. Six and a half years in prison is not enough of a penalty for that amount of criminal activity or to deter someone else from committing a similar crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Tuesday, Yahoo News posted an article about Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir, 34, of Lakeville, Minnesota. The article reports: A Minnesota man whose food site received more than $5.4 million after falsely claiming to serve about 1.6 million meals to children … Continue reading