30-year sentence handed down in Minnesota child-feeding fraud case
Salim Said has been sentenced to 30 years in a Minnesota fraud case over a scheme that claimed to feed needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case drew criticism from US President Donald Trump.
A court in the US state of Minnesota has handed down a 30-year sentence to Salim Said in a fraud case. It involved a scheme that claimed to provide meals to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the government, Said "hit the jackpot" through the scheme, meaning he profited substantially from a programme that was supposed to feed children.
The case attracted wide attention because it prompted backlash from US President Donald Trump. The short source material available does not give further details about the scale of the fraud, the court's reasoning or the specific criticism voiced by Trump, so those points are not covered here.
