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Abdiaziz Shafii Farah
Co-owner of Empire Cuisine & Market; DOJ indictment: ThinkTechAct board member with Mahad Ibrahim’s site network. Convicted in Empire/FOF wave. Separate Jun 2024 ~$120k juror-bribe scheme charged to Farah network — Fara…
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah — Empire Cuisine co-owner — FOF convict; jury-bribe scheme. Co-owner of Empire Cuisine & Market; DOJ indictment: ThinkTechAct board member with Mahad Ibrahim’s site network. Convicted in Empire/FOF wave. Separate Jun 2024 ~$120k juror-bribe scheme charged to Farah network — Farah’s crime, not Omar’s. On this guide as the one-hop endpoint past Ibrahim.
WHAT IS DOCUMENTED
Person file.
Labeled edges only.
Co-owner of Empire Cuisine & Market; DOJ indictment: ThinkTechAct board member with Mahad Ibrahim’s site network. Convicted in Empire/FOF wave. Separate Jun 2024 ~$120k juror-bribe scheme charged to Farah network — Farah’s crime, not Omar’s. On this guide as the one-hop endpoint past Ibrahim.
Documented
Role and public-record touches listed on this page and on Omar associations. Court outcomes are labeled when they exist.
Not documented here
No invented Omar “knew” edge. Donor / staff / family / shared-stage adjacency stays labeled as such.
Rival paths
Readers can weigh prosecution findings, political-oversight critique, and ordinary-representation defenses without collapsing them into one verdict.
DATED SPINE
Dates on the record.
Pulled from the Omar associations / Minnesota Fraud claim spine. Full illustrated deep guide may expand this list.
- Dec 11, 2021 — AG Ellison meets FOF-linked figures: Audio later published; weeks before public FBI raids. Network climate.
- Dec 2025–Apr 2026 — Daycare viral video & federal warrants: Shirley video; state ‘operating as expected’; later FBI warrants — Omar not charged.
- Aug 2018 — Primary-night party at Safari: Omar celebrates at Safari Restaurant — later a FOF fraud venue.
- Mar 2020 — Omar introduces MEALS Act: H.R. 6187 pandemic meal-flexibility bill; critics later tie waivers to FOF conditions.
- May 2020 — Omar appears in Safari meal video: Promotional video later shown muted at Salim Said’s trial.
- Feb–Mar 2021 / Feb 2022 — FOF-linked donors give; later redirected: $5,400 from Ghedi and Abdihakim Ahmed alone in early 2021; $7,400 total from three later charged; charity redirect after warrants.
- Feb 2022 — Omar letter on USDA meals misuse: Publicly demands answers after FOF searches become public.
- Sep 20, 2022 — DOJ charges 47 in $250M FOF scheme: Bock, Eidleh, Safari owners, Guhaad, Mohamud, Artan, Mahad Ibrahim and others named.
- Jan 2025 — Abdi Salah & Abdulkadir Salah pleas: Frey aide and Safari co-owner plead guilty in FOF case.
- Mar 2025 — Jury convicts Bock and Salim Said: FOF founder and Safari co-owner guilty on multiple counts.
- Aug 11, 2025 — Guhaad Hashi Said guilty plea: Plea on wire-fraud and money-laundering conspiracies; media revive campaign-worker description.
- May 22, 2026 — Bock sentenced to 500 months: DOJ announces ringleader sentence in >$240M scheme framing.
- Jul 16, 2026 — Eidleh transferred from Somalia to Minnesota: USA: ‘second only to Bock’; faces 31 counts.
PRIMARY & NEAR-PRIMARY SOURCES
Read these first.
- CourtListener RECAP — U.S. v. Bock exhibit list Doc. 451 (Jan 14, 2025)
Primary exhibit index: A-53 Help with USDA Food Program (cc Natasha Rice of Omar office); A-56 Ilhan’s Office; bodies sealed/unpublished.
- Sahan Journal — Feeding Our Future donations sent to charities
Ahmed Ghedi & Abdihakim Ahmed $2,700 each; campaign redirected.
- DOJ — U.S. v. Farah et al. superseding indictment PDF (Sep 2022)
Primary: Abdiaziz Farah / Empire Cuisine; Mahad Ibrahim as ThinkTechAct president; Farah on ThinkTechAct board; fund flows. Establishes Empire–Ibrahim network — not an Omar charging document.
- American Experiment — Jamal Osman, Omar Fateh on video at FOF celebration (Jun 2021 event)
Secondary with primary video pointer: June 2021 Safari/Banadir celebration of FOF’s MDE-lawsuit win. Fateh speaks (~34:00); Omar staffer Ali Isse speaks (~38:18); Fateh shout-out to Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar not present. Treat as political-advocacy adjacency + office-staff appearance, not a fraud conviction of Omar.
- AP — Feeding Our Future juror offered bag of cash (Jun 2024)
Primary wire: ~$120k floral-bag bribe attempt during Empire/FOF trial; Farah network defendants charged. Omar not named.
- MN House Fraud Prevention Committee — final report PDF (May 2026)
Partisan House GOP majority oversight report: MEALS Act conditions claim; lists eight Omar-linked FOF donors; calls Guhaad former staffer. Treat as legislative-oversight claim set, not DOJ findings.
- PolitiFact — Bondi’s Minnesota fraud timeline rated Half True (Jan 8, 2026)
Charge counts and timeline context.
- AI Files — The Omar File (parent deep guide)
Parent spine; marriages, Israel rhetoric, full biography.