Greed, deepfakes & dirty Money: Financial crime enters the AI age

“Pure unmitigated greed.” Those were the words that U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel used on Aug. 6 when she sentenced Abdiaziz Shafii Farah to 28 years in prison for his role in the Feeding Our Future case, which federal officials described as one of the largest Covid-19 fraud schemes in the country. “You achieved successes here in the United States and yet you’ve shown utter and flagrant disregard for the laws of the United States,” Brasel told Farah, who was born in Somalia. “The repercussions of ...