acquits in the case of Minnesota charity who stole $250M COVID bucks meant to feed kids
BAG STORY
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic.
The 23-year-old juror said she immediately turned over the bag of cash to police. She said a woman left it with her father-in-law Sunday with the message that she'd get another bag of cash if she voted to acquit, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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THE TRIAL: 1x White Woman 
and 46x Somalis 
Meet Aimee, our sole white woman who ran the charity accussed of the biggest theft:
AND the 46 other accused:
JUSTICE.GOV summary:
U.S. Attorney Announces Federal Charges Against 47 Defendants in $250 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud Scheme
“Today's indictments describe an egregious plot to steal public funds meant to care for children in need in what amounts to the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme yet,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The defendants went to great lengths to exploit a program designed to feed underserved children in Minnesota amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, fraudulently diverting millions of dollars designated for the program for their own personal gain. These charges send the message that the FBI and our law enforcement partners remain vigilant and will vigorously pursue those who attempt to enrich themselves through fraudulent means.”
“This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota. “These defendants exploited a program designed to provide nutritious food to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they prioritized their own greed, stealing more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal funds to purchase luxury cars, houses, jewelry, and coastal resort property abroad. I commend the work of the skilled investigators and prosecutors who unraveled the lies, deception, and mountains of false documentation to bring this complex case to light.”
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even if this doesnt involve Trump
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The most horrifying thing for Westoids to learn is that the Burger judicial system is in fact superior to brown people countries.
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yes if there's one thing Murica does better than anyone its law enforcement
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What about Singapore? Law enforcement stops people from even chewing gum obnoxipusly there and they hardly shoot anyone. Tho theyll execute you for hahing too much weed
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i feel so bad for that neighbor X (formerly chiobu) he cant even smoke fentanyl or chew gum smh
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y-y-yes and that's a good thing
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do u at least have the fentanyl lollipops over there
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maybe in the ICU
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It's okay he uses the boofing loophole
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they may not shoot people often but they do cane people which we don't do in the US
also
@X has assured me time and time and time again that you can totally chew gum there wink wink 
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chewing gum isn't banned here
it's the importation of chewing gum that's banned
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5gum
Stimulate your senses!
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One thing I learned about Canadian stereotypes is that it's more fun to go along with it than seethe that ppl don't REALLY know some gay details about Canadian that make it sound even gayer
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I dont think its possible to make a country where every male is walking around with a 15 inch dildo up their asses all the time sound even gayer.
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This is a good thing
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It's a million times easier keeping singaporeans in check than burgers
I don't remember a God Father movie set there
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The most horrifying part of this is the bag was 120k and not 10k wink wink
Dumb foid.
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To your own point, if it was 250k originally, you wouldn't have known. Dumbass.
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Buddy giving anything more than 10k is insane
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woman bad
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Jeeze if she stole all that money ypu think she could afford a visit to the dermatologist
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I think there's some evidence that she's the only person who didn't steal for herself. Legitimately drank too much of the antiracist/White-savior Koolaid and decided to only use Somalis to help her run a charity. COVID happens, the
realize that there's no checks on the whole system and immediately begin scamming. She lets her antiracist blindness take over and refuses to even engage in the most cursory of oversight efforts. Standard 
lack of critical thinking skills behavior.
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Kim Wexler, if she only ate pizza and candy
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I wish someone would give me $120K to do virtually nothing.
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They dropped it off at her father in laws house which was the mistake
Then the girl has to debate it with her older family members instead of deciding to keep it herself
But not convicting on an obvious crime like this would be hard to pull off anyway
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I would have turned in only part of the money.
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This is very possibly what happened.
120k is a weird number. You'd think they give here 150 or 200
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I wouldn't have turned it in at all, I'd report it sure but the cops don't need to touch it
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They could probably legally take it if you proved to them it was there. They can just arrest people for having large amounts of cash on them, so I'm sure there's some legalese about them being able to confiscate bribe money involved in a fraud trial.
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Report something believable like $20k, pocket the rest.
Best of both worlds in case the federinos are on your tail.
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surely once they actually catch the person who tried the bribe, that person would throw the juror under the bus? i mean it's not like they'd have any reason to keep it a secret lol
i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that most dramatards would NOT be capable of hiding 100k in cash from the feds when they obviously come searching for it.
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Yeah but otoh the briber could also be lying
Idk, 100k in cash isnt that much (assuming it was 100 dollar bills), you could just put it in a plastic bag and bury it somewhere for a few years
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Bro you have no idea, my attic is SO BIG bro.
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Maybe it was actually $150K and she just reported $120K. It would be tempting but I wouldn't risk a no country for old men situation over some light bulb heads
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I would have invested the money at the Casino.
One roll on Red and get the receipt (just in case I lose, to give to the feds, showing how desperate I was in that state of mind). I win...then get the Smoalians to believe I'm a expert investor and bilk them for more, until I whistle blower them and get a fat paycheque from Uncle Sam.
Fool-proof.
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The real tea is that most non-profits/charities are scamming the system whether it's real fraud like this, or they invent “issues” to continue a grift.
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Yup. The non-profit industrial complex.
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Seems like a really dumb thing to do since so many people have ring cameras nowadays.
Also the type of person to get selected for jury duty is not the type of person to take that type of bribe. Like they are taking time off work to sit in a court room getting paid barely anything. Anybody without a strong moral conscious is going to try and get out of jury duty. The only people who get selected for jury duty are the hall monitor goody two shoe types.
If I ever got jury duty I would bring my cat for emotional support and because he is very good at spotting goodsters.
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lmao not sure what job you work but I get paid my full salary on days where I have jury duty, plus they let me keep the $50/day or whatever shit they pay you.
basically instead of doing actual work I get a pass to hang out at the courthouse, plus I can sleep in and generally get out early
last time I did it, the trial went to a second day. We were all done by like 10:30am the second day. Just went home and enjoyed the rest of my day off, fully paid, not using any PTO.
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Job doesn't have to pay you legally, but they can't fire you. Most jobs don't pay during jury duty from my experience,and if you are freelance/ own your own business you are shit out of luck.
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I'd bet that most salaried white-collar jobs do. Certainly all the ones I've had did.
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Wait, why was she dismissed? She refused and returned the money immediately. Doesn't this just mean you can get anyone removed from a jury by anonymously bribing them, whether they take the bribe or not?
We need trans hedgehogs! Trans hedgehogs belong here! We love trans hedgehogs!
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You can get removed from jury for all sorts of things. Imo it should happen more often, but it comes down to practicality and money so they let all sorts of stuff fly.
Also she is going to now be a witness for the bribery/jury tampering case.
And it goes the other way as well, anyome could drop money off at someone's house to make the defendant look guilty. She won't be unbiased anymore, so she shouldn't be on the jury.
If I stole 40 million, and the wrong guy was being prosecuted for stealing it, it would be super smart to hire somebody to drop off 120k making them looking super guilty. Or super dumb, depending if they took the money
My thinking is how many other jurors got money? I would go through jury selection again completely and make jury members stay in secure locations, because you can't be sure other jury members didn't get money as well.
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yea this is good to know for future endeavors
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lol you did the full 47? I was too lazy
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I woulda taken half the money and turned in 60 grand to the police
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The original amount of money in that bag was likely closer to $500,000.
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More like 10K lol
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Yeah for sure, I'm proud of her that she even turned those $110,000 in at all.
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Why would anyone give somalis that much money? Seriusly.
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It's called cultural enrichment
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