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The judge calls the “attack attack” to the justice system after manipulated witnesses to feed our future judgment

The judge calls the “attack attack” to the justice system after manipulated witnesses to feed our future judgment

The judge calls the “attack attack” to the justice system after manipulated witnesses to feed our future judgment

Prosecutors and a federal judge convened on Friday “unprecedented behavior” related to the ongoing trials related to the massive food of our future fraud investigation.

Judge Tony Leung ruled that a suspect, Abdinasir AbshirNow he will remain in jail pending his trial in August after prosecutors accused him of manipulating with a witness in the separate trial of feeding the former executive director of our future, Aimee Bock, and the restaurant owner, Salim said.

The couple is accused of orchestrating what the government has called the largest pandemic fraud in the nation.

Earlier this month, prosecutors alerted the court that Abshir approached a government witness while preparing to testify in the room of Judge Nancy Brasel on the 13th floor of the Federal Court in Minneapolis.

Abshir had remained out of custody in supervised release since he and several others were accused in September 2022.

However, the federal agents readjus it last week after the incident in the Federal Court, where prosecutors say that Abshir “stopped” the government witness while sitting in a bank outside the courtroom.

5 Eyewitness News has learned that the witness in question is Sharmake Jama, who testified a day later as part of an agreement to declare himself guilty of fraud.

The United States assistant prosecutor Joe Thompson, presented fixed images of security cameras that confirmed the contact, a violation of the terms of the launch prior to the abshir trial.

“The madness in which this trial has become … It is like something I had never experienced before,” Thompson told the court. “We have to have agents patrolling our corridors to make sure that people like Mr. Abshir do not intimidate our witnesses.”

The incident is the last one of a series of events that include the Brotherhood attempt at a jury In an earlier test related to the feeding of our future last year.

“I have been a judge for 31 years,” Leung said on Friday. “I’ve never seen anything close to this in Minnesota.”

In their arguments to keep Abshir locked, prosecutors also shared that they found “a series” of assault weapons and ammunition within the Park Avenue offices used by several suspects in Minneapolis connected to feeding our future.

Abshir’s lawyer, Craig Cascarano, asked the court to consider placing his client in electronic monitoring or in a house halfway waiting for his trial this summer, but Judge Leung was not influenced.

“(ES) A direct attack on the integrity, defense and reliability of the justice system of this nation,” Leung said from the bank. “I don’t think this is a close call in this case.”

Prosecutors are expected to continue their case at Bock’s trial and said next week.

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