• Emadeldin Ibrahim claimed to serve meals to thousands of children in need in the basement of Mercy Adult Day Care in St. Paul during the COVID-19 pandemic, but evidence showed that his invoices and claims were fraudulent.

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," Abuelhassan said.

Ibrahim provided a few photos of groceries he claimed to give young Jethro Butt and the other supposed kids, but nothing to back up the 1,700 gallons of milk on one invoice, or the 2,600 chicken legs and fixings he claimed to buy from his own clothing store, also sharing the same address as the adult daycare.

"I found out all the invoices were fake," Abuelhassan said.

When Ibrahim showed Abuelhassan the basement, it was filled with junk.

Partners in Nutrition -- a meal site sponsor just like Feeding our Future — wrote checks to the Sudanese Community Association for...

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