FBI places Feeding Our Future suspect among the nation's 'most wanted fraudsters'
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MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has added a Minneapolis grocer accused of defrauding a federally funded meals program to the agency’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.
Authorities allege Said Ereg, 47, fraudulently obtained millions in federal dollars meant to feed children in Minnesota through the Feeding Our Future nonprofit. The FBI is offering up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction.
Thursday’s announcement is part of a new campaign to highlight alleged fraud across the country. Vice President JD Vance is leading a fraud task force meant to combat the misuse of federal funds. As federal officials ask for the public’s help to investigate fraud allegations in Atlanta, Utah, and elsewhere, they continue to cite Minnesota’s sprawling cases of fraud.
“It is shocking, some of the allegations that we’re hearing out of Minnesota and other places,” Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, said Friday on Fox News, highlighting the most-wanted list.
“Whistleblowers: We encourage you to come forward, to share what you see [and] what you’ve learned.”
Ereg received more than $4.2 million in federal dollars between 2020 and 2021 that were meant to feed children, authorities said in Thursday’s news release. Instead, Ereg allegedly used most of the money for “his family’s lavish lifestyle” and transferred some of those funds into foreign accounts. Last year, Ereg’s wife, Najmo Ahmed, pleaded guilty in the Feeding Our Future case, revealing that she spent some federal funds on items from luxury stores like Burberry and Louis Vuitton.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Ereg with wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. No arrest for Ereg has been reported since.
Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock was sentenced to 41 years in prison for the pandemic-era fraud, in which millions were stolen from funds meant to feed children in need.
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