Woman becomes 71st charged in Feeding Our Future scheme after arrest at MSP airport

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Woman becomes 71st charged in Feeding Our Future scheme after arrest at MSP airport originally appeared on Bring Me The News.
A 71st suspect in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme has been indicted after she allegedly attempted to flee the country to Dubai.
Hibo Daar, 50, was apprehended at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport this week, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota.
Daar was attempting to board a plane, with Dubai her ultimate destination. She's since been indicted on two counts of wire fraud in connection with the large-scale COVID child nutrition program fraud.
According to court documents, Daar owned and operated Northside Wellness Center and claimed she was using it as a COVID food distribution site under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future in 2020.
Daar claimed to provide 40,000 meals to children every week from a small business park on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. But Daar used false invoices and attendance records to inflate those numbers, according to court documents.
In total, Northside Wellness Center submitted over $2.4 million in reimbursement claims, with Daar receiving $1.7 million in taxpayer dollars. Daar then allegedly transferred most of the money to family, associates and herself.
Daar is also accused of paying $72,000 in bribes to a Feeding Our Future employee to process the fraudulent reimbursement claims.
'As we have said, the U.S. Attorney's Office is not stopping. We will continue to investigate and charge defendants who defrauded the government in the Feeding Our Future case – the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country and the single largest case charged in the history of this office,' Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick said in a statement. "Our work is not done."
This story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Jun 1, 2025, where it first appeared.