DOJ Takes Custody Of Somali Fraudster After Years-Long Manhunt

provide meals to vulnerable children before fleeing to Somalia to avoid prosecution in the United States.

According to court records, Eidleh was a former employee of Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the fraud scheme

Advertisement Prosecutors allege he played a key role in recruiting participants and coordinating the operation by enlisting business owners to establish fraudulent child meal distribution sites operating under the nonprofit’s sponsorship through the federal Child Nutrition Program.

According to prosecutors, the fraudulent meal sites submitted reimbursement claims for meals that were never provided to children.