Posted on 03/19/2025 2:44:03 PM PDT by CFW
A federal jury in Minneapolis Wednesday convicted Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock and former restaurant owner Salim Said on charges of wire fraud and bribery in a trial that followed a lengthy investigation into an alleged scheme to fleece taxpayers out of $250 million by exploiting government child nutrition programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jurors deliberated about five hours before finding Bock, 44, guilty on all seven counts. They convicted Said, 36, of all 21 charges, which also included five counts of money laundering.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel ordered Bock and Said jailed and did not set a date for sentencing. "The fraud scheme was based on deception,” and the pair could use similar deception to flee now that they're facing "a significant sentence,” Brasel said.
Bock cried as United States marshals handcuffed her and took her and Said into custody.
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Why do I suspect many politicians were involved with it as well and also got a cut?
I wonder how much Walz got. He was against investigating this. As I recall.
tossed under the bus?
For those who haven’t followed:
“In the overall fraud case, 70 people including Bock and Said were charged. A little more than half have pleaded guilty. The trial of Bock and Said was the second to follow the sprawling investigation by the FBI, IRS, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service into fraud in the nutrition programs.”
Only a very few of the 70 charged have non-Muslim names.
$250,000 worth of ugly.
NO
$250,000,000 THAT’s million— (maybe more)
Multiple defendants sent money out of the country
Mulitiple defendants WORKED for the democrats
Multiple attempts at JURY TAMPERING!!- cash and threats against jurors-
it’s crooked minneeesssooota-
Yeah, Powerlineblog has been posting almost daily updates on the trial of Bock. They also have archived articles regarding other defendants. During one trial, a juror woke up one morning to find a bag of cash on her door step.
During Brock’s trial, a co-defendant asked a witness if he would step into the restroom and speak to him privately.
There is a lot of corruption going on in Minnesota. The fact that state bureaucrats took so long in stopping the fraud tells me that many were involved. I don’t think they put a halt to it until after the FBI was already investigating.
Wow
She could have used the money to alleviate her rosacea and psoriasis...
The surface isn’t even etched yet.
It’s worth their while to not implicate him. He can pardon the state charges. They gave him enough for it to be worth his while to do that. Do the algebra.
They tried to feed their own future with ill gotten gain but got caught and now all the fraudsters have in the days ahead be 3 hots and cot.
Well earned - Enjoy, creeps.
You’d think after missing about $50M they’d check it out! Government too big to control.
They still have some squirreled away in Switzerland or Kamkune.
Look at the names of the 70 charged. They sent money to places like Somalia and Gaza.
Crumbs for the family back home. Big chunk laundered and hid.
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