White state resident, Aimee Bock, back in 2016...long before DJT started crowing about it. Btw, the "Feeding Our Future" Fraud really got wings once the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, and Trump Fired the HIGHLY RESPECTED Inspector General, Glenn Fine, responsible for overseeing his $2T PPP Aid Package for all 50 states...why would anyone do such a thing?
From the Wiki Page (and all its references) on the "Feeding Our Future" Fraud...
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Feeding Our Future
Main article: Feeding Our Future
Feeding Our Future was founded by Aimee Bock in 2016. It repeatedly applied for grants from the state of Minnesota but was denied due to allegations of mismanagement and abuses.[9] In July 2019, months before the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) officials identified early signs of fraud, including meal claims they considered implausible. According to former state employees, Bock pressured workers who raised questions within weeks of the organization's first submissions, and officials began documenting her "concerning behavior". Before the pandemic, Feeding Our Future billed the state for approximately $3.4 million.[10]
The IRS revoked Feeding Our Future's tax status as a nonprofit in February 2020.[9]After the onset of the pandemic and a large increase in the amount of federal aid available, Feeding Our Future applied for funding to provide meals to schoolchildren, as schools were closed.[9][11] Some experienced MDE employees, suspicious of potential fraud, sought to investigate meal sites. The employees felt that their efforts were stymied by MDE leadership, which they called reluctant to take action for fear of litigation.[12] MDE began giving Feeding Our Future substantial grants after it threatened legal action against the state.[9][11]
After MDE began delaying responses to Feeding Our Future's grant applications, the organization sued the state in November 2020, arguing that it was being discriminated against "because of race, national origin, color, and religion".[13] Katherine Theisen, a senior employee of Minnesota's Office of the Legislative Auditor, later called MDE's response "a systemic failure."[12] Feeding Our Future's political supporters, including both Democratic and Republican state senators, advocated for the organization to receive funding or passed along constituent concerns that MDE was blocking grants.[14] MDE raised concerns about fraud with the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA), and the FBI began investigating in February 2021.[9][11] Bock maintained ties with local politicians, including Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey and state senator Omar Fateh.[15][16][17] An aide to Frey, Abdi Salah, pleaded guilty to wire fraud; Frey said he was unaware of Salah's activities.[18][15] Another supporter was Minneapolis council member Jamal Osman, whose wife operated a Feeding Our Future meal site that received more than $400,000 in funding.[17][19][20]
In March 2021, Feeding Our Future sued MDE to resume payments. In April, Ramsey County District Judge John Guthmann ruled that MDE acted too quickly in halting payments and lifted the payment freeze.[21] MDE and Governor Walz decided that the court ruling forced them to resume payments to Feeding Our Future. MDE said, "the court made it clear that if MDE were to continue the legal fight to withhold payments, MDE would incur sanctions and legal penalties". Guthmann issued a rare public rebuke in response to Walz's statements, saying he never ordered MDE to resume payments to Feeding our Future and that MDE had itself determined that Feeding Our Future had resolved "serious deficiencies" that justified its initial payment freeze.[22]After Guthmann's ruling, MDE continued to reject applications for new meal sites from
Feeding Our Future and contacted the FBI.[23] In June 2021, state senator Omar Fateh praised Bock and Feeding our Future for securing funding against MDE's payment freeze. A witness in a Feeding our Future trial testified that Fateh called Attorney General Ellison on behalf of Feeding Our Future.[24] Also in 2021, Frey met with MDE to push MDE Commissioner Heather Mueller into restarting funding. Bock had prepared talking points for the meeting, which were delivered to Frey through Salah, although Frey denied using them during the meeting.[25]
In January 2022, FBI raids began targeting Feeding Our Future, which finally stopped payments to the organization. Politicians who received donations from suspects implicated in Feeding Our Future, including Frey, Fateh, and U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, returned or donated their contributions.[23][26][27] By May 2026, of 79 suspects indicted in the fraud, 65 had been convicted, including nearly 60 via plea deals. Seven had been convicted at trial, while many others awaited trial.[28][29][30]Although more than $250 million is alleged to have been stolen, only around $75 million had been recovered as of early 2025, as much of the money was spent on unrecoverable expenses like luxury meals and hotels or was transferred to overseas investments that the U.S. cannot seize.[31][32] In an early January 2026 report, the U.S. government estimated that total fraud from the case could top $350 million.[33] As most perpetrators, excluding Bock, were Somali Americans, the scandal resulted in increased political attention on the community, including from the second Trump administration.[34] In May 2026, Bock was sentenced to more than 41 years imprisonment (500 months) and ordered to pay over $240 million in restitution
Merrick Garland, attorney general during the Biden administration, called it the country's largest pandemic relief fraud scheme.[21] The nonpartisan state legislative auditor's office later found that Feeding our Future's threats to accuse MDE of racism had affected the agency's judgment. An investigator from the state's fraud investigation office (who was himself Somali) said that concerns over being portrayed as racist made the Walz administration reluctant to pursue fraud allegations.[21]Federal officials began investigations into Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI)[a] providers in December 2024, in connection with Feeding our Future investigations. At least a dozen defendants suspected of fraud related to Feeding our Future also owned or were associated with autism centers in Minnesota.[39] Federal officials charged several defendants in connection with EIDBI fraud in 2025. In December 2025, Asha Farhan Hassan pleaded guilty to stealing $14 million in EIDBI funding.[40]
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