MINNEAPOLIS (BDN) — Aimee Bock, the founder of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of a $250 million fraud scheme, was sentenced Thursday to 41½ years in federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel imposed the sentence in Minneapolis. It is the longest term given to any defendant in the Feeding Our Future case, which prosecutors have called the largest pandemic-related fraud in the country.
A jury convicted Bock, 45, on March 19, 2025, on seven counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and federal programs bribery. Prosecutors said her nonprofit funneled money from a federal program meant to feed low-income children into shell companies and personal spending.
Prosecutors had asked for 50 years, calling Bock the central figure in the scheme. Her attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, requested about three years, arguing she was not the mastermind and had given investigators records that helped build cases against others.
Bock founded Feeding Our Future in 2016. Its federal reimbursements grew sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, when emergency rules loosened oversight.
More than 60 people have pleaded guilty or been convicted in the case. The previous longest sentence was 28 years. Bock’s co-defendant, Salim Said, has not been sentenced.
Bock is expected to appeal.
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