Feeding Our Future founder sentenced to 500 months over a $242 million child nutrition scheme
Aimee Bock, 45, the founder and executive director of the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future, was sentenced on May 21, 2026 to 500 months, more than 41 years, in federal prison. A federal jury found her guilty in 2025 on all seven counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy and federal programs bribery. Feeding Our Future recruited people to open over 250 child nutrition sites eligible for federal money, and the sites fraudulently claimed to be serving meals to thousands of children a day almost immediately. Prosecutors said Feeding Our Future disbursed the money in exchange for $18 million in kickbacks. The judge held Bock responsible for the full $242 million in losses.
- Year
- 2026
- Where
- United States
- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Reported loss
- $242.0 million
- Victims
- Not stated in the sources
- Schemes
- Child nutrition program fraud
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-27
The facts, as recorded
- Feeding Our Future was a nonprofit that recruited people to open over 250 child nutrition sites that were eligible for federal money. The sites fraudulently claimed to be serving meals to thousands of children a day almost immediately.
- Feeding Our Future submitted the fraudulent claims to the Minnesota Department of Education, which was tasked with overseeing the program, and disbursed the money in exchange for $18 million in kickbacks, prosecutors said.
- Prosecutors said the overall scheme ran upward of $246 million, limited to the $242 million defrauded after April 2020 from the US Department of Agriculture, which funded the pandemic relief.
- In their sentencing filing prosecutors wrote that Bock personally submitted all of the site applications, monitored all of the sites, signed each claim for reimbursement and each check to participants, and controlled the nonprofit's bank account.
- A federal jury found Bock guilty on all seven counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and federal programs bribery.
- Judge Nancy Brasel sentenced Bock to 500 months on May 21, 2026, less than the 50 years prosecutors sought, and held her responsible for the full $242 million in losses.
- Bock's defense attorney argued she should be sentenced only on her personal gain, which he said was $1.2 million, and blamed the Minnesota Department of Education for not conducting necessary oversight.
- The federal investigation had led to over 70 indictments and 66 convictions by the date of the sentencing.
Why this case matters
Bock sat at the center. As prosecutors described it, Feeding Our Future recruited the sites, submitted their claims to the state, and disbursed the federal money in exchange for $18 million in kickbacks. The nonprofit’s claims were the channel through which the money for more than 250 sites flowed.
Two accounts of responsibility
The prosecution said Bock personally submitted every site application, monitored every site, signed every reimbursement claim and every check, and controlled the nonprofit’s bank account. The defense said her personal gain was $1.2 million, less than her co-defendants’, and pointed to the state’s oversight. The judge held her responsible for the whole $242 million.
The caveat
Bock was convicted at trial and has been sentenced, so the conduct above is the prosecution’s account as the jury found it and as the judge applied it at sentencing, reported by the Minnesota Reformer. This page cites the defense’s arguments because they were made in court, not because it endorses them. Reports give the loss figure variously as $242 million and $250 million; this page uses the $242 million the judge adopted. This page has not read the court’s own records, and it does not describe any of the other defendants beyond those named.
Sources
- Feeding Our Future 'mastermind' sentenced to over 41 years in prison. KAXE, by Alyssa Chen of the Minnesota Reformer. Accessed 2026-10-27. Supports: Every fact above: Bock's role, the 250 sites, the claims to the Minnesota Department of Education, the $18 million in kickbacks, the $246 million and $242 million figures, the prosecutors' filing, the 500-month sentence and the judge's finding on losses, the defense arguments, and the 70 indictments and 66 convictions.
- Former deli owner sentenced for role in Feeding our Future fraud. FOX 9. Accessed 2026-10-27. Supports: The verdict that a jury found Bock guilty on all seven counts and the list of the counts.