UNITED STATES — Five more future feeding defendants pleaded guilty this week in one of the largest fraud investigations in Minnesota history following the theft of $14.6 million dollars in federal funds intended for child nutrition programs.
The developments come shortly after a recent federal raid in Lewiston, Maine revealed millions of dollars tied to interpreter billing, tax fraud, and MaineCare fraud, as outlined by The Maine Wire.
The guilty pleas announced on Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice brings the total confirmed convictions in the Feeding Our Future scheme to 64, while federal agents execute search warrants in Maine surrounding similar public funds fraud schemes.
Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, Aisha Hassan Hussein, Sahra Sharif Osman, Shakur Abdinur Abdisalam, and Fadumo Mohamed Yusuf, all pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud each per the DOJ, entering pleas between March 18 and March 20, 2026.
All five individuals were charged in the current case — United States v. Mohamed et al. — where orchestrators exploited food program sites and a distribution entity under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. Simply put, they submitted false documentation to receive funding for meals that never existed, in a similar trend to MaineCare services billing anomalies.
In court documents, the detailed and coordinated effort amongst family members is revealed. Ikram Mohamed served as a consultant to Feeding Our Future, which allowed her to open multiple fraud fronts that received nearly $7 million in federal dollars. Some of the entities used to generate fake invoices were owned by her husband, mother, and siblings, even going as far to create a fake company named Star Distribution LLC with her brother.
Her husband, Abdisalam, ran Inspiring Youth & Outreach LLC which received over $1.5 million dollars for fake meals.
Her sister? She ran United Youth of MPLS LLC and raked in over $2.2 million dollars. Sahra Osman operated the Youth International Club LLC which obtained $1.4 million dollars, and Fadumo Yusuf, Ikram’s mother, headed Active Minds Youth LLC which also received more than $1 million dollars. The kickbacks totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars directly to Ikram Mohamed’s consulting company, IM Consultation.
Here on the Maine front in the War on Fraud, federal agents were assisted by other agencies and local police in a raid of 95 Park Street in Lewiston earlier in March. The address housed the head office of Reliable Language Resources, which was founded by Rakiya Mohamed of Auburn — the business was closely associated with Bright Future Healthier You, a company that received more than $15.5 million in MaineCare funding from 2019 – 2024.
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The Maine Mohamed pleaded guilty just days earlier prior to the raid to tax fraud charges, filing false returns in 2018 and 2019, including falsified labor contracts and expenses for the interpretation company.
During an IRS audit, Rakiya Mohamed also provided false records and prosecutors allege over $450,000 in falsified expenses across the interconnected business model in Maine.
While the cases remain entirely separate, the recurring theme in naming convention of multiple defendants in Minnesota highlights identical last names present in Maine, both appearing criminally associated to taxpayer funded services and nonprofit organizations that are connected familially.
U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Roses noted President Trump’s objective to eliminate fraud, and stated “I am proud of our team of prosecutors, federal agents, and law enforcement partners who continue to expose the rampant fraud in Minnesota.”
The mirroring actions continue to pronounce sustained federal efforts to safeguard United States taxpayer funded public programs, as children’s nutrition in Minnesota and health services for Maine residents, is confirmed to be a target of exploitation.
Interestingly, the news and court documents confirm there are family matters at hand.
