A guilty plea coming in the Feeding Our Future bribery case?

A “plea agreement hearing” has been scheduled for July 23 in Federal court in Minneapolis. The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 was the first to report on this new development in the juror bribery case.

This hearing will coincide with the arraignment of Abdimajid Nur, the youngest of the five defendants in the bribery case and the only one yet to be arraigned.

When indicted last month, Nur was already in Federal custody, having been convicted of ten felony counts in the larger Feeding Our Future fraud trial from which the juror bribery case arose.

Significantly, Nur was relocated last month from the Sherburne County jail, where his co-defendants are being housed, to the jail in Anoka County.

To recap, the larger fraud trial involved seven defendants, including Nur. Bribery charges were brought afterward against five defendants, three of whom were defendants in the earlier case. Your scorecard:

An interesting footnote on one of the newest defendants, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah, age 24, the third Farah brother.

At Abdulkarim’s initial court appearance, his lawyer emphasized that his client was only a half-brother to the older Abdiaziz and Said. The implication is that they are not close.

Since turning 18, Abdulkarim has accumulated seven (7) separate traffic citations. So what? In each instance, his address has been listed as his brother Abdiaziz’s home in Savage. The most recent speeding ticket came on June 24, just two days before his indictment in the bribery case.

All three brothers remain in Federal custody.