Lawyers give final arguments to feed our future fraud judgment

He Leader of feeding our future He sold vulnerable immigrants in a “perversion of the American dream”, persuading dozens of Somali business owners to join their $ 250 million Payment scheme per game That made them millions of dollars before federal investigators reached fraud, prosecutors said in their final statement on Tuesday in the trial of a month.

“They just wanted to work hard and provide better lives for them and their families,” said United States assistant Harry Jacobs, who presented the government’s final argument to the jury. “Ladies and gentlemen, that was the American dream. It should have been enough … but what Aimee Bock sold them was a perversion of the American dream: lying, cheating, stealing, doing anything to earn more money. And look at them now.”

“This program is about preparing meals, not millionaires,” Jacobs said Tuesday.

Jacobs told the jury in his final argument that the pandemic brought the best of many minnesotanos. But, he said, Bock and said, who personally won $ 5.9 million of the seven food sites he allegedly controlled, used the crisis to “enrich” exploiting a meal program funded by the federal government that is supposed to be supposed to provide food to the needy children.

Prosecutors say that the defendants in the mass scheme presented false assistance sheets and false invoices to inflate the number of foods that claimed to serve the children to obtain millions of dollars in government reimbursements.

That was taken the stand on Monday and affirmed challenging that he had the right to obtain millions in earnings from the food program. But on Tuesday morning, when prosecutors finished interrogating him about documents, he admitted that at least some of the invoices used to support the statements of some of his sites seemed to be manufactured.