Overview
- U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud sentenced Farah, 25, to 57 months in prison and one year of supervised release, matching prosecutors’ high-end recommendation.
- Prosecutors said Farah conspired with his brothers and others to buy a not‑guilty verdict by targeting a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial.
- According to his plea, Farah surveilled Juror 52, mapped her parking, removed a rental car’s plate with a screwdriver, drove Ladan Mohamed Ali to the home, recorded the drop, and later deleted Signal messages.
- A Hallmark bag holding $120,000 was delivered to the juror’s residence; she reported it, police and the FBI recovered the cash, and Judge Nancy Brasel excused her before proceedings continued.
- All five defendants in the tampering plot have pleaded guilty; Farah is the first to be sentenced, others await punishment, and related fraud cases have already yielded lengthy terms, including 28 years for Abdiaziz Farah.