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Crime, Law and Justice
Matt Sepic
St. Paul
Updated:

Credit report lands Feeding Our Future founder back in court on alleged pretrial release violation

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Aimee Bock speaks during an interview with Sahan Journal reporters at the Feeding Our Future offices in St. Anthony.
Jaida Grey Eagle | Sahan Journal 2022

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The accused ringleader of a $250 million scheme to defraud government child nutrition programs allegedly violated her pretrial release conditions by taking out a new student loan.

Aimee Bock pleaded not guilty in 2022 to federal wire fraud and bribery charges.

Bock, 43, led the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which federal prosecutors say was at the center of a conspiracy to fleece taxpayer-funded meal programs for children in need.

A judge is allowing Bock to remain free ahead of trial on conditions that include not taking out new lines of credit without court approval.

But in filing Wednesday, a probation officer said a recent review of Bock’s credit report found an unauthorized $185,394 U.S. Department of Education student loan opened on May 31.

In a statement to MPR News, Bock’s attorney Kenneth Udoibok said his client consolidated her student loans earlier this year and “was unaware that the consolidation of existing loans would be reflected as a new line of credit. It’s not a new credit line application.”

A magistrate judge ordered Bock to appear for a hearing on Oct. 16 regarding her pretrial release conditions.

Bock is among 70 people charged in the case. Prosecutors allege that the defendants falsified invoices, meal center attendance lists, and other documents to fraudulently claim reimbursement for millions of meals.

In June, a jury in Minneapolis convicted five people and acquitted two others in the first Feeding Our Future case to go to trial. Bock and 11 of her co-defendants are scheduled to face trial early next year

“February 2025 cannot come soon enough for the jury to hear her story,” Udoibok adds.