The Brief
- Hanna Marekegn, who owned Brava Cafe, pled guilty to her part in the federal meal fraud in 2022, among the first to do so.
- She testified about a party for Bock after she won court case against the Minnesota Department of Education that allowed the fraud to continue.
- She also said she routinely gave kickbacks to another Feeding Our Future employee before Bock personally demanded $1.5 million in cash to remain involved.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Hanna Marekegn testified that suspected Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock had given her and others the “American dream life” and that they were “able to own houses, good cars, and we were living very large.”
She also testified that it was all fraud. And that Aimee Bock knew it. “All of us, the vendors, the founder, we were all doing wrong.”
Believed COVID fraud was okay
The backstory:
Marekegn enrolled her Brava Cafe as a meal site under Feeding Our Future and soon claimed to feed thousands of meals a day for kids.…