Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

DARK SECRETS: Aimee bock | Rare Historical Photos

Fraud suspect allegedly behind $250m Minnesota pandemic scam tracked down in Somalia

Abdikerm Eidleh, 42, was arrested in Mogadishu, Somalia, following a raid by FBI agents and Somali intelligence officials,

The Independent UK

Aimee Bock’s Minnesota Charity Fed Kids, or So It Claimed, Until Prosecutors Uncovered a Fraud So Vast It Sparked ICE Raids and Two Deaths

Prosecutors painted Bock as the architect of the fraud, not just a participant.

The Mary Sue

Feeding Our Future Scandal: The Organisation Who Stole $300M Federal COVID Aid Meant For Hungry Children

The Feeding Our Future scandal exposed how $300 million in Covid child food aid was diverted into luxury spending and organised fraud.

International Business Times UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Who is Aimee Bock? Feeding Our Future Fraud Who Stole Food Cash from Starving Children During COVID-19 Jailed

Aimee Bock, founder of Feeding Our Future, sentenced to nearly 42 years for orchestrating a $250 million pandemic-era fraud, exploiting federal funds meant for feeding children.

International Business Times UK

Former head of Minnesota non-profit gets nearly 42-year prison sentence for fraud

Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which claimed to help provide millions of meals to children during the pandemic

The Guardian - US

Minnesota nonprofit fraud ringleader Aimee Bock gets nearly 42-year prison sentence

The Feeding Our Future leader admitted her failings in federal court, stating, ‘I understand I failed. I failed the public, my family, everyone’

The Independent UK

New federal raids in Minnesota highlight problem of fraud in children’s programs

Minnesota has been dealing with overlapping fraud investigations involving potentially billions of dollars in wasted federal funds

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Trump orders task force to counter fraud in SNAP, nutrition programs - Roll Call

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to establish a task force to eliminate fraud in federal nutrition programs.

Roll Call

‘I wish I could go back and do things differently’: Woman behind Minnesota fraud scheme speaks out

Prosecutors described her as the mastermind behind a $250 million fraud scheme

The Independent UK

MAGA sex weirdness fuels day care hoax

The racism underlying MAGA's latest obsession is intertwined with misogyny

Salon

A third defendant pleads guilty to juror bribery in massive Minnesota food fraud case

A third defendant has pleaded guilty for his role in an attempt to bribe a juror with $120,000 in exchange for acquittals in a massive COVID-related fraud case in Minnesota

The Independent UK

Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts

A jury has found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need

The Independent UK

Defendant in $250 million pandemic food fraud case pleads guilty to wire fraud

A man accused of tampering with a witness in a courtroom hallway has pleaded guilty to wire fraud

The Independent UK

Judge restricts defendants after witness tampering allegations surface in Minnesota food fraud case

A federal judge has ordered defendants in all upcoming cases stemming from a pandemic fraud case in Minnesota to stay away from her courtroom

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Jury selection to begin for alleged ringleader of $250M pandemic fraud scheme in Minnesota

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of the alleged ringleader of a scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children

Tribune News Service

Could Minnesota officials have stopped Feeding our Future fraud sooner?

MINNEAPOLIS — Why did it take almost two years for government officials to shut down Feeding Our Future and cut off payments to individuals now accused of orchestrating the nation's largest pandemic fraud?

Tribune News Service

First defendants plead guilty in Feeding Our Future fraud

MINNEAPOLIS — A Feeding Our Future employee on Thursday admitted to taking more than $1.3 million in bribes to help other co-conspirators defraud a federal child nutrition program as part of the nation's largest pandemic fraud case.

Tribune News Service

Feds stop another person linked to Feeding Our Future scheme from leaving US

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal authorities stopped another person linked to the Feeding Our Future fraud case from leaving the country Monday, arresting the 49th person to be charged in the sprawling $250 million child food aid conspiracy.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Founder of Minnesota nonprofit among 48 people charged in $250 million federal food aid fraud scheme

MINNEAPOLIS — The director of the Feeding Our Future nonprofit and 47 other people were charged Tuesday in what federal prosecutors say was a "massive scheme" to defraud the government of more than $250 million meant to feed needy children during the pandemic.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How alleged plot exploited pandemic to net $250M

The Department of Justice has charged 47 people in what prosecutors have called a scheme to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the U.S. government of $250 million

Al Jazeera

US lays charges in ‘egregious plot’ to steal child meal funding

Justice Department accuses defendants in Minnesota of stealing $250m meant to feed low-income children during pandemic.

WEKU

DOJ charges 47 with stealing $250 million from a pandemic food program for kids

The defendants allegedly carried out a plot to steal $250 million from a nutrition program meant to serve needy children in Minnesota. Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

The Independent UK

Feds: Minnesota food scheme stole $250M; 47 people charged

Federal authorities have charged 47 people in what they say was a massive scheme to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and defraud the government of $250 million

Tribune News Service

Fraud has plagued federal meals program for years

MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the FBI accused the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future and some of its prime contractors of fraud, the federal government's child nutrition programs were wasting more than $1 billion a year on "improper payments," according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Justice

1,146 stories

Agriculture

713 stories

Department of Education

Attorney General Office

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.