How bad was the graft with a federal program to make the government come after her? Pretty bad
Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts
A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need.
They found her guilty. Nothing alleged about it. Fookin’ Associated Press
Aimee Bock — founder of Feeding our Future, the group at the heart of the plot — was one of 70 defendants charged in the overall case, which prosecutors said was the nation’s single largest fraud scheme against COVID-19 relief programs.
The Minnesota case has also drawn attention for an attempt to bribe a juror in an earlier trial and witness tampering in Bock’s trial, which began last month. Thirty-seven defendants have already pleaded guilty, while five were convicted in a group of defendants who were tried last year.
The jury also convicted a co-defendant, Salim Ahmed Said, owner of the now-defunct Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis.
Bock, 44, and Said, 36, were charged with multiple counts involving conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery. Said was also charged with money laundering. Bock allegedly pocketed nearly $2 million, while Said was accused of taking around $5 million. They both maintained their innocence and testified at trial.
Feeding or Future was always rather shady, the minute it was created in 2016, and the Minnesota Department Of Education was always leery of them from the get go. But, somehow they got funding
(IRS) In total, Feeding Our Future opened more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program sites throughout the state of Minnesota, and in doing so, went from receiving and disbursing approximately $3.4 million in federal funds in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021. Throughout the course of their scheme, Feeding Our Future fraudulently obtained and disbursed more than $240 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. The defendants used the proceeds of their fraudulent scheme to purchase luxury vehicles, residential and commercial real estate in Minnesota as well as property in Ohio and Kentucky, real estate in Kenya and Turkey, and to fund international travel.
Who authorized these federal funds to go to Feeding Our Future? I hope federal prosecutors are looking at their finances and lifestyles, see if they were receiving kickbacks. The thing here is that FOF was so shady that they were easily caught. How many others aren’t? How much waste of federal money occurs elsewhere but they’re better at hiding it? From this tweet on the subject
They were so bad they got caught. When Dems caterwaul about children going hungry, medicine not getting to needy people, and so forth, how much of the federal money actually goes to the stated purpose? What percent? There are a few charities I refuse to donate to because so much of the donated money goes to overhead, payroll, and more fundraising and just a pittance goes to aid. If, say, $2 billion goes to feeding people around the world, how much makes it? As it passes through the hands of NGO after NGO to this company to that company, what percent is used for food? The programs are set up poorly, and often set up to avoid accountability. This needs to stop.
Good for IRS- they need to look at more of these do-gooder organizations. Tax-exempt status is often a license to steal.
Modern Democrats always see charities as ways to get rich. It is opposite-charity. In the past, Democrats would join Republican in church-led charities that built hospitals, schools and universities and fed the poor. For what it is worth, about half of veterans charities are also scams. The same for those phone calls you get from the local sheriffs association to send them a donation. Totally not related to your actual sheriffs. People all over the world see the USA and just a huge unrestricted scam hunting ground. Lots of stupid people (and people with infirmities due to age) with too much money and access to the internet.
Send her sorry fat ass along with the other 70 fraudsters to El Salvador.