When federal agents pulled up to a quiet cul-de-sac in St. Charles, Missouri, moving boxes replaced million-dollar luxury. Connie Bobo, the trusted face of New Heights Community Resource Center, is now inmate-bound for 16 years after pocketing nearly $20 million meant to feed low-income children during after-school and summer breaks. Here is how a massive child nutrition program funded private mansions, a $200,000 Mercedes-Benz, and Missouri’s biggest public fraud reckoning.
Federal Marshals seize a $1.1M St. Charles property as former charity leader Connie Bobo begins her 16-year sentence for the largest child nutrition fraud in Missouri history.
From High Roller to Federal Inmate: Connie Bobo Stripped of $1.1M Estate and Handed 16-Year Prison Sentence After Robbing Children’s Food Program of Nearly $20 Million
The Scheme Unfolds…