by Brendan Pierson at The Washington Free Beacon
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against 47 people they accuse of stealing about $250 million from a federal aid program meant to help feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Department of Justice said that the scheme, which centered on the Minnesota non-profit organization Feeding Our Future, is the largest fraud linked to pandemic relief programs yet uncovered. Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock, 41, is among those charged.
“This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger for the District of Minnesota said in a statement. “These defendants exploited a program designed to provide nutritious food to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Feeding Our Future could not immediately be reached for comment. Kenneth Udoibok, a lawyer for Bock, said his client “did nothing worthy of indictment.”
The alleged scheme was tied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Federal Child Nutrition Program aimed at feeding needy children…
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