Prosecutors challenge Bock’s testimony in the feeding of our future judgment

Prosecutors on Thursday, through an intense fast -style interrogation round, tried to demonstrate that Aimee Bock knew about the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud that occur to feed our future sponsorship sites.

Bock founded the now missing non -profit organization, and federal prosecutors say that she and her coacusado Salim said she conspired to steal $ 250 million money from the taxpayers of the Child Nutrition Program.

Joe Thompson, the main prosecutor of the Office of the United States prosecutor, splashed Bock with questions about money, false food counts and more.

The Government says that Bock signed the fraudulent food count, allowing the sites to receive millions of dollars in federal money for foods that were never served.

“Did you never realize that these statements were wild?” Thompson questioned.

“They were not wild at that time,” Bock replied.

At one time, Bock testified that while the authorities were executing a search warrant in her home, she offered to “help catch anyone who commits fraud.”

“Well, you did a great job, Mrs. Bock,” Thompson replied.

While undergoing a direct interrogation by his lawyer, Kenneth Uudobok, Bock testified that the text messages that were previously mentioned in the Court should be taken sarcastically.

“We can have become the mafia,” he wrote in a message to Hadith Ahmed. She told the jury that the text was about a woman who said that feeding our future was not paying claims.

“It was a sarcastic joke because we approached the problems aggressively,” Bock testified. “When we had problems, we would attack and eliminate.”

Also, through tears, he told the jury that he never accepted bribes.

“Nothing is worth, or worse than being separated from my children,” he said.

But prosecutors interrogated him about the sale of his nursery, the learning trip, to Cosmopolitan Business Solutions, a co -owner company of Said, for $ 310,000, saying that the sale was a bribery payment. The nursery never had a license and never opened, but a food distribution site opened and operated in the building.

“Then, at that time you got $ 310,000 from Said and its co -owners, there was no nursery, but there was a food place,” Thompson said, adding: “Then, when you sold the nursery, what you really sold was the food site.”

Lawyers will continue to question Bock on Friday.

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