Pandemic Food Fraud Conviction | Duluth News

Duluth News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 30, 2026 · 1m

Forty-one-year-old Mahamoud Warsame just pleaded guilty to stealing over $4 million in pandemic-era federal food aid funds, using his wife’s forged signature and fake meal claims—most of the cash vanished into luxury purchases. He’s now the 80th person charged in the nation’s largest pandemic fraud, which has exposed $300 million in stolen money; 62 have already pleaded guilty, 69 convicted. Founder Aimee Bock faces 41+ years in prison, while co-conspirator Abdikerm Eidleh, arrested in Somalia, awaits U.S. court. Warsame will forfeit a car, house, and commercial building bought with the loot…