Feeding Our Future

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Feeding Our Future was a Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2016. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it claimed to distribute many thousands of meals to schoolchildren, but instead stole hundreds of millions of dollars while providing few or no meals at most of its locations. Merrick Garland, attorney general during the Biden administration, called it the country’s largest pandemic relief fraud scheme. Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the school meal program repeatedly tried to cut off funds, the organization was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022. As of early 2026, out of 80 suspects indicted in the fraud, 62 had pled guilty. Another seven individuals were found guilty at trial, including the leader of the scheme, Aimee Bock, while others awaited trial. Bock was sentenced to more than 41 years imprisonment. Including Bock, 23 of those convicted have been sentenced. As most of the individuals charged or convicted in the case were Somali Americans...

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