Overview
- Fahima Mahamud is charged with one count of wire fraud tied to the Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis.
- Prosecutors say claims at the site swelled to nearly 60,000 meals per month by February 2021.
- She was arrested last week before a scheduled international flight and later released on her own recognizance by a federal judge.
- Court documents say she told the state on Feb. 10 she planned to close the center, and a new, unrelated operator registered at the same address the next day.
- Prosecutors attribute more than $250 million in losses to the wider scheme, which now counts 79 defendants, 51 guilty pleas, seven trial convictions, and last year’s conviction of founder Aimee Bock.