[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …accused fraudsters - as all seven defendants are arrested for bribery
- A juror was dismissed after a woman left $120,000 in cash at her home
- She was offered even more money for voting to acquit seven defendants
- They were charged with stealing over $40million from a pandemic food program, Feeding Our Future
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson added who noted how the woman who delivered the cash was identified as Somali. The seven defendants on trial are East African.
Thompson said how a woman, 'possibly Somali, with an accent, wearing a long black dress' went to the juror's house at 8:50pm on Sunday.
The seven who are on trial are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial, being tried on a total of 41 criminal charges, including wire fraud, bribery and money laundering, in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million.
Eighteen others have already pled guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation's largest pandemic-related fraud cases.
Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel and property.
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