A convicted Somali fraudster who stole millions in taxpayer dollars through the Feeding Our Future scheme was sentenced to only one year in federal prison by a Minnesota judge who has said she has a duty to combat “implicit racial bias” in the criminal justice system, including by acknowledging what she says is a disproportionate representation of black people in the state’s prison population.

Judge Nancy Brasel, who was nominated by President Donald Trump to the bench in 2018 as part of a package deal struck between the first Trump administration and Minnesota’s Senate Democrats, sentenced Abdul Abubakar Ali to one year and one day behind bars for his role in the multimillion-dollar scam.