Somali Fraudster: $3M in Fraud. 1 Year in Jail

Why do we have so much fraud by Somalis in Minnesota? Consider the severe penalties.

A Minnesota man was sentenced on Monday to more than a year in prison after pleading guilty to creating fake invoices to a nonprofit that falsely claimed it served 1.5 million meals to children in need within seven months.

According to his guilty plea, Abdul Abubakar Ali submitted fake invoices for technology services from his company, Bilterms Solutions, to Youth Inventors Lab.

The Justice Department claimed the Youth Inventors Lab received more than $3 million in reimbursements, of which Ali personally pocketed at least $129,000.

Good deal all around. Not so much for Americans, but who cares about them anyway?

Here are some further details on the case.

Ali and his co-conspirators used the nonprofit “Youth Inventors Lab” as a shell company to carry out his scheme, investigators said. Ali enrolled Youth Inventors Lab in the federal food program under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future, according to authorities.

After enrolling, Ali “immediately” began submitting claims for reimbursement for purportedly serving meals to hundreds or thousands of children a day, investigators said.

Ali created and submitted fake invoices purporting to document the purchase of food from a vendor, S & S Catering, according to authorities.