MINNEAPOLIS — The former executive director of a St. Paul food shelf was sentenced Friday to more than 3.5 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million in restitution of playing a “flagrant” role in the $250 million Feeding Our Future scheme.
Sharon Ross, 54, pleaded guilty last year to scheming the Federal Child Nutrition Program of $2,434,360 under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future and Partner in Nutrition. According to a press release from U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick, Ross will also have three years of supervised release following her prison sentence and was previously ordered to forfeit all property derived from the scheme.
Ross is one of 70 defendants charged in the meal fraud case. Earlier this week, the jury was seated for the trial of the alleged ringleader, Aimee Bock. Bock is accused of recruiting others and conspiring with them to set up phony meal sites, claiming to serve food to children in need starting in 2020. Ross was allegedly one of those people she conspired with…