Feeding Our Future's Fed a Fraud

Indictments issued

• The scheme defrauded the government of more than $250 million in pandemic funds intended to provide children with access to food and adequate nutrition during the pandemic.
• It is the largest pandemic fraud in the U.S. and the largest federal case ever brought in the state of Minnesota.
• U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger announced the indictments today, saying that the business owners exploited a federal child nutrition program that funded restaurants that participated in the food aid program and distributed food to children outside of school programs.
• The founder of Feeding Our Future, Aimee Bock, is charged with submitting fake invoices which supposedly proved they were using the funds to provide meals to thousands of children per day at their 200 program sites.
• Bock and the other conspirators in the scheme are accused of taking bribes, lying to authorities about using funds, and pocketing the funds for their own lavish purchases.

Uncovering the scheme

• The $250 million was used to buy homes, resort properties, luxury cars, expensive jewelry, and other luxury items instead of being used to feed needy kids in Minnesota.
• The scheme lasted from 2020 to 2021 when suspicious authorities halted payments to Feed Our Future, and the FBI began investigating.
• The DOJ has seized $50 million in property from the 47 people involved in the fraud.
• The accused would make up false rosters of children fed at the sites and report the same number of meals served at each location, which tipped off authorities. Others took bribes, pocketed money from the nonprofit instead of using it to provide children with food, or laundered the funds given to them by the government to feed the children.