Farah owned the Shakopee restaurant Empire Cuisine and falsely claimed to serve 18 million kids, prosecutors said.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a leader of a sprawling, pandemic-era food fraud plot in Minnesota to 28 years in prison.

Farah received 28 years as ringleader of the first fraud group to stand trial, and also for masterminding the attempted bribery of a juror.