Prosecutors Seek 50-Year Term for Aimee Bock in $300 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud
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Updated · KARE11.com · May 19
Prosecutors Seek 50-Year Term for Aimee Bock in $300 Million Feeding Our Future Fraud
7 articles · Updated · KARE11.com · May 19
Federal prosecutors asked a Minneapolis judge to give Aimee Bock 50 years in prison at Thursday's sentencing, casting her as the central figure in the $300 million Feeding Our Future meal-fraud scheme.
Court papers argue the scale and brazenness of the fraud damaged public trust across Minnesota, saying Bock's crimes "shaken Minnesota to its core" and permanently altered the state.
Exhibits filed Monday included a photo of a dilapidated site that claimed to serve thousands of children's meals daily, checks bearing Bock's signature that paid millions to co-conspirators, and texts threatening defamation suits.
Bock's lawyer is seeking no more than 3 years, while the judge retains broad discretion because the statutory maximum sentence is life in prison.
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