Five people were charged with bribing a juror in Minnesota after authorities found in confiscated devices a “chilling” plan to give a juror more than $120,000 and specific instructions on how to convince other jurors to acquit, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Three of the people charged were defendants in the federal fraud trial that ended in June, while the other two were recruited, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said at a news conference.
' They “thought carefully” about what they wanted the juror to say to the rest of the jury, and their hopes were to “inflame the jury,' he said. “This really is an attack on our system of justice,” Luger said. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah and Abdimajid Mohamed Nur were among the five of seven defendants found guilty earlier this month of most of the crimes they faced related to a scheme in which they misused millions of dollars meant to feed children during the pandemic.
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