Overview
- Recent reporting based on court documents details condos, exotic car rentals, and overseas real estate purchased with proceeds from the scheme.
- Liban Yasin Alishire pleaded guilty in 2023 and, according to filings, spent about $350,000 on a Kenyan beach resort.
- Abdiaziz Shafii Farah was sentenced to 28 years and nearly $40 million in restitution after prosecutors linked him to a $1 million Nairobi apartment project.
- Prosecutors say nonprofit leader Aimee Bock paid her boyfriend Empress Malcolm Watson Jr. $1 million under a sham contract, and filings describe the pair renting Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces for roughly $2,000 a day; Watson was not charged but is accused of $680,000 in luxury spending.
- Prosecutors previously charged nearly 50 people in the $250 million case, and a federal prosecutor now warns Minnesota has become a “magnet for fraud” with estimated losses across welfare programs reaching into the billions.