Aimee Bock just got 42 years in federal prison for running the massive “Feeding Our Future” COVID fraud scheme.
Prosecutors said hundreds of millions meant to feed children were stolen through fake meal claims, including kids who never even existed. Bock still insists she was framed and didn’t know what was happening, but the court clearly wasn’t buying it.
Aimee Bock sentenced to 500 months in Feeding Our Future fraud case
The founder of a nonprofit that’s become synonymous with fraud in Minnesota was sentenced Thursday to 500 months in prison — nearly 42 years — and ordered to pay $243 million in restitution.
Federal prosecutors had sought 50 years in prison for Aimee Bock, who founded and led Feeding Our Future. Last year, a jury convicted Bock of orchestrating what investigators say was the nation’s largest COVID-era fraud scheme.
Bock’s defense attorney Ken Udoibok had argued for a three-year sentence.
Just before U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel read the sentence in a crowded courtroom at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis, Bock stood beside Udoibok at the lectern and through tears said she wanted “to tell everyone how sorry I am that this happened. I understand the situation I’m in. I understand the jury’s verdict. I understand that I failed, I failed the public, I failed my family, I failed everyone. It was not something I ever set out to do.”
But in the past few months, Bock — while in jail — allegedly directed her two adult sons to send confidential court documents from her case to reporters in a last-ditch attempt to claim innocence.