Feeding Our Fraud: “A landmark sentence”
8th August 2025
Abdiaziz Farah was convicted on 23 felony counts of conspiracy, fraud, and related crimes in the first of the Feeding Our Future trials last year. I covered the trial and reported the guilty verdict here at the time. The government asked for a 30-year sentence. Granting most of the government’s wish and agreeing with its argument in its entirety, Judge Nancy Brasel sentenced Farah in federal district court here yesterday to 28 years in prison.
Farah concocted the shocking juror bribery scheme that was discovered at the conclusion of his trial last year. He has pleaded guilty in the bribery case before Judge David Doty and will be sentenced separately for the offense. That sentence should be added to the 28 years he received yesterday.
I attended Farah’s sentencing hearing yesterday. The court was full of Farah’s family, supporters, and federal law enforcement agents who testified at trial. I sat in the press row immediately in front of Farah’s crying wife. It was quite a scene.