Minnesota Fraudsters at Work

The Minnesota fraudsters tried to pull another fast one.

These defendants engaged in a chilling attack on our justice system.

It's been three weeks since $120,000 in cash was dropped at the home of a juror in the Feeding Our Future trial. U.S. Attorney Andy Lugar describing it now is a sophisticated scheme.

And they plotted carefully and deliberately during the trial, waiting for the right moment to act.

Fortunately, for all of us, juror 52 could not be bought.

Charged are three of the feeding our future defendants, Abdi Aziz Farah, his brother, Saeed Farah, and Abdi Majid Noor. Also charged are Abdul Karim Farah, another brother, seen here in an evidence photo. And Ladan Ali, recruited to fly in from Seattle, also seen in an evidence photo and Ladan Ali recruited to fly in from Seattle also seen in this evidence photo. Ali's fingerprints were found on the bag used to deliver the bribe. Ali's rental car was seen waiting for juror number 52 to leave after court and then following her. License plate readers found 19 times

over three days. Ali's car was near the jurors home.

They studied her, followed her, and determined that she would succumb to their scheme.

Stuffed inside a water bottle in Abdiaziz Feroz's home was a typed list of the jurors names. And though deleted, the FBI still recovered evidence from defendants phones,

including text messages arranging the bribe about staking out the juror and a video of Ali actually delivering the bribe. They also found lengthy instructions to the juror on how to convince others to vote not guilty

and it heavily plays on race. We are immigrants, it reads. They don't respect us and care about us.

In the indictment, it alleges that she was targeted for two reasons. One, she was young and two, that they believed she was the only juror of color.

Okay, of course. I'm sorry. You know what? They all gotta go. They all gotta go to jail. And thank goodness we found that one out. They all gotta go to jail. And thank goodness we found that one out. It's like the fraud is limitless.