The sprawling “Feeding Our Future” investigation reached a major milestone this week as five more defendants, including several members of the same family, admitted to their roles in a scheme that systematically drained millions of dollars intended to feed hungry children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced the guilty pleas of Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, 42; her husband, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, 46; her sister, Aisha Hassan Hussein, 29; her mother, Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf, 59; and an associate, Sahra Sharif Osman, 43.
The group admitted to wire fraud for their parts in a coordinated effort to steal and launder approximately $14.6 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds.
According to court documents, Ikram Mohamed acted as a leader in the group while working as a consultant for the Feeding Our Future non-profit. She used her position to enroll several food sites under the names of her relatives to hide her involvement.
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Prosecutors say she also ran Star Distribution LLC with her brother, a company that generated fraudulent invoices to make it appear as though massive quantities of food were being delivered to program sites when they were not.
The scale of the fabricated records was immense. Shakur Abdisalam admitted that his company, Inspiring Youth & Outreach LLC, claimed to have served over one million meals between February and November 2021. To back up these claims, the group submitted phony attendance rosters filled with the names of fake children and made-up ages.
Aisha Hussein and Fadumo Yusuf also admitted to running fraudulent sites in Minneapolis that claimed to serve millions of additional meals, resulting in over $3.2 million in combined illegal payments. Meanwhile, Sahra Sharif Osman operated sites in Hopkins and Edina that supposedly served nearly 700,000 meals out of community rooms in townhome complexes.
The scheme was further characterized by a web of internal kickbacks. Hussein, Yusuf, Abdisalam, and Osman all admitted to paying kickbacks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars to Ikram Mohamed’s personal consulting firm, IM Consultation.
“I am proud of our team of prosecutors, federal agents, and law enforcement partners who continue to expose the rampant fraud in Minnesota,” said U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen.
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These latest admissions bring the total number of convictions in the Feeding Our Future investigation to 63, marking the largest fraud prosecution ever handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. The convictions align with a broader federal push to address pandemic-era theft, supported by the newly established President’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.
The five defendants entered their pleas before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court, narrowly avoiding a trial that was scheduled to begin on April 20, 2026. Sentencing dates have not yet been set. The investigation remains active, led by the FBI, IRS-Criminal Investigations, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
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