ST PAUL, MINN – A 36-year-old man has been charged with operating fake food sites in Pelican Rapids and Moorhead as a part of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Abdirashid Dool has been charged in a seven-count indictment Tuesday in the District of Minnesota.
Dool co-operated and served on the boards of two Minnesota non-profits, Bilaal Mosque Inc. and Multicultural Resource Center Inc (MRC). They also purported to operate two food sites—the Bilaal food site in Pelican Rapids and the MRC food site in Moorhead.
The sites received more than $1 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds from Feeding Our Future. Most of the money was allegedly laundered to Dool and his conspirator’s families and selves with little going towards purchasing food. Prosecutors say Dool also used the money for travel and to buy real estate in Minnesota.
