Federal Authorities Indict Somali Brothers on Fraud and Money-Laundering Charges
How a U.S. child‑nutrition fraud stretched from Minnesota to Nairobi — and what it reveals about pandemic-era crimes
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent indictment of two Kenyan brothers accused of laundering millions tied to a multimillion‑dollar scheme to steal federal child‑nutrition money reads like a study in how local corruption can quickly become transnational. At stake were dollars intended to feed children in American schools; according to prosecutors, some of that money ended up in apartments near Nairobi…