Feed our future leader condemned in a massive covid fraud scheme

A jury condemned the leader of a non -profit organization of Minnesota on Wednesday for his role in a pandemic fraud scheme of $ 250 million that “exploded” a federal child nutrition program, prosecutors said.

Federal prosecutors have called the scheme One of the largest pandemic -related frauds in the country. Aimee Bock, founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, was one of the 70 people accused in the case.

The jury also condemned his coacked Salim Ahmed, he said, who was the owner of the now disappeared Safari restaurant in Minneapolis, according to the The United States Prosecutor for the Minnesota District. Bock, 44, and said, 36, were accused of multiple criminal positions that include conspiracy, fraud to the cable and bribery. That said he was also accused of several money laundering positions, said the office of the United States prosecutor.

“Aimee Bock and Salim said they took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to carry out a mass fraud scheme that stole money destined to feed the children,” said US prosecutor Lisa Kirkpatrick in a statement. “The defendants falsely said they had served 91 million meals, so they received almost $ 250 million fraudulently in federal funds. That money was not to feed the children. Instead, it was used to finance their luxurious lifestyles.”

The scheme was linked to the Federal Child Nutrition Program of the United States Department of Agriculture, which provides meals to needy children. The program, which expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed the restaurants for profit to execute food distribution sites financed by the federal government as long as a non-profit organization sponsored them.

Prosecutors said that restaurants owners and others bribed feeding our future employees for the organization to sponsor simulated distribution sites. Then, participants spent federal funds for personal purchases sites, including luxury cars, houses, jewels and resort properties abroad.

The case caught more attention last year when Five people were accused With conspiracy of bribing a jury with a $ 120,000 bag. Thirty -seven defendants have already declared themselves guilty in the case, while another five have been convicted, according to prosecutors.

‘Mass fraud’ scheme under the feeding of our future sponsorship

The prosecutors accused Bock and said about the supervision of a “mass fraud scheme carried out by sites under food sponsorship of our future.” According to prosecutors, feeding our future employees recruited restaurants and others to open food distribution sites throughout the state of Minnesota.

“These sites, created and operated by Bock, said, and others, fraudulently stated meals to thousands of children a day in a few days or weeks after training,” said the US prosecutor’s office.

As part of the scheme, prosecutors said Bock and said he presented false documentation to the Minnesota Department of Education, including fraudulent food counts and false assistance lists. The couple then disbursed federal funds to their conspirators.

The couple also created dozens of Shell companies to administer false distribution sites and wash the income of the scheme, according to prosecutors.

“In exchange for sponsoring the fraudulent participation of these sites in the program, feeding our future received more than $ 18 million in administrative fees to which it was not entitled,” said the office of the United States prosecutor, and added that employees also requested and received bribes and bribes.

Prosecutors said that the feeding of our future opened more than 250 federal sites of the Child Nutrition Program, stealing $ 250 million.

The owner of the Minneapolis restaurant said that millions of meals were provided

He said, who owned and operated a Safari restaurant, registered his restaurant in the Federal Child Nutrition Program in April 2020. The restaurant was sponsored to feed our future, prosecutors said.

The prosecutors said that by July 2020, he said that he fraudulently said that the restaurant served meals to 5,000 children per day, seven days a week. In total, between April 20 and November 2021, he said falsely said that the restaurant served more than 3.9 million meals to children.

“He also said that the Safari restaurant provided more than 2.2 million meals to other food sites involved in the feeding of the fraud scheme of our future,” prosecutors said.

Contributing: Kevin Johnson, USA UU. Today; Reuters

‘Mass fraud’ scheme under the feeding of our future sponsorship

The owner of the Minneapolis restaurant said that millions of meals were provided

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