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The state was victorious in a civil trial against a meal program participant who claimed to serve thousands of meals from the basement of his adult day care.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the basement of Mercy Adult Day Care on White Bear Avenue in St. Paul during the COVID-19 pandemic, the owner, Emadeldin Ibrahim claimed to serve meals to thousands of children in need every day for months.
Some of the kids' names submitted by Emadeldin Ibrahim include "Normal Junior," "Daniel Gizmo," and "Jethro Butt."
Attorney Nahid Abuelhassan says there is no chance Ibrahim served thousands of meals in that basement. She quickly got suspicious because Ibrahim signed up for the Federal Child Nutrition Program as a representative of the Sudanese Community Association, which did not authorize him to do so.
"I spent a lot of time trying to make sense of his claims," Abu...
