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A US trial involving a $40 million pandemic-fraud scheme was disrupted after a juror reported an attempted $120,000 bribe to vote for acquittal. The juror, who was dismissed, revealed that a woman offered the bribe at her home. The trial involves seven Somali immigrants accused of defrauding a federal food aid program for children. The court has detained the defendants and sequestered the jury for the remainder of the trial.
A juror in a federal fraud case involving the nonprofit Feeding Our Future was dismissed after a woman attempted to bribe her with $120,000 to vote for acquittal. The juror reported the incident to the police, and the trial, which involves defendants accused of stealing $41 million from government food programs during the Covid-19 pandemic, continues.
Three activists who have been aiding jailed protesters of a planned police training site in Georgia were arrested in a raid on Wednesday. Marlon Scott Kautz, Adele Maclean, and Savannah D. Patterson are charged with money laundering and charity fraud. They are leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund that supports the movement against the planned center, which opponents call 'Cop City.' The activists' arrest warrants accuse the trio of 'misleading by using funds collected through the State Registered 501c(3) Network for Strong Communities (NFSC) to fund the actions in part of Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF), a group classified by the United States Department of Homeland Security as Domestic Violence Extremists.'