ST. LOUIS — A former Missouri nonprofit executive was sentenced Monday for stealing nearly $20 million from a program meant to provide meals for low-income children.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, Connie Bobo, 46, from St. Charles will have to repay $19.7 million after prosecutors said she orchestrated what they are calling the “largest public assistance and pandemic fraud in Missouri history.”
Bobo served as executive director of the New Heights Community Resource Center, a nonprofit that received state funds to give meals to kids after school and during the summer…