Overview
- Dool, 36, was indicted on seven counts of wire fraud and money laundering as the 78th person charged, accused of running sham meal sites through Bilaal Mosque Inc. in Pelican Rapids and Multicultural Resource Center Inc. in Moorhead.
- Prosecutors say Dool claimed over 40,000 meals per week, including 6,000 per day at the Pelican Rapids site—more than double the town’s population—securing about $1.1 million with fake invoices and rosters while buying little food.
- Dool made his initial court appearance in St. Paul, and investigators from the FBI, IRS-CI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service led the case.
- U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, 24, to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and $47,920,514 in restitution for his role in the Empire Cuisine & Market scheme.
- Evidence showed Nur created most of the fraudulent meal counts, invoices and rosters—claiming 18 million meals at more than 30 sites—and he has separately pleaded guilty in a juror-bribery case with sentencing still to come.