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A juror in the Feeding Our Future trial was dismissed on Monday after reporting a blatant bribery attempt to try and get her to vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40m from a government program intended to feed children during the pandemic.

The 23-year-old juror wasn’t at her home in Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, on Sunday night when a woman showed up at her home with a bag of $120,000 in cash and the promise of more money if she voted to acquit, Assistant US Attorney Joe Thompson said.

The woman left the message and the bag of cash with the juror’s father-in-law saying, “This is for Juror 52”, according to a report in the Sahan Journal.


The juror reported the bribery attempt to the local police.……

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ding-our-future-juror-dismissed-b2556004.html