Aimee Bock, Salim said he guilty when feeding our judgment of future fraud

He said that he invested from $ 65,000 to $ 75,000 in each of the new sites, which was enormously lucrative, which earned him up to $ 1.2 million in earnings of a single meal site in St. Cloud. In total, he said he admitted to having won at least $ 5.5 million of his participation in the sites, all of which was financed by the meal program.

“I would not have participated if I was not getting profits,” said Testified, who used the money to buy two luxury vehicles, a participation in two investment properties and a $ 1.1 million house in Plymouth with an inner basketball court.

At the beginning of the trial, a senior official with the Minnesota Education Department – That supervises the meal program and reimbursed non -profit organizations, such as feeding our future, testified that the program was not designed to generate profits, and that leftover funds were supposed to be channeled to their operations.

The Department of Education has been criticized by state legislators for Poor supervision of the meal program. Bock has tangled up in demands with the department since 2020, accusing the agency of a cover and of discrimination because he worked mostly with the Eastern Africa companies.

On Wednesday, the Department of Education issued a statement that the police and prosecutors praised for pursuing justice.

Louis Krauss of Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story.