A new court document details what federal prosecutors in Minnesota say was a frantic effort by two defendants to get a juror to vote for an acquittal in a pandemic fraud case. Mukhtar Shariff was convicted in the case earlier this year. On Monday, the U.S.
FILE - This image provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota , shows cash from a bag that was left at the home of a juror in a massive fraud case, June 2, 2024, outside Minneapolis, Minn. MINNEAPOLIS — A new court document details what federal prosecutors in Minnesota say was a frantic effort by defendants to get a juror to vote for an acquittal in a pandemic fraud case.is among five people convicted in the case earlier this year.
“100 for our freedom is nothing, bro, worth trying everything bro,” Farah wrote in one text to Shariff, prosecutors said. Three minutes later, he allegedly texted, “That’s it bro. I have a good feeling she will come through and that’s a lot of money for her family.” Prosecutors said the defendants researched the juror’s personal information on social media, surveilled her, tracked her daily habits and bought a GPS device to install on her car. Authorities believe the defendants targeted the woman, known as “Juror #52,” because she was young and they believed that as the only person of color on the jury, she might be sympathetic to the defendants.
Ali lied to Nur and said she had approached the juror at a bar, according to prosecutors. Ali claimed the juror wanted $500,000 in exchange for returning a not guilty verdict, and that the juror had instructed her to deliver the money when she’d be home alone. In reality, Ali had never spoken to the juror, prosecutors said.
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