A Minneapolis café owner testified Tuesday that Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock demanded $1.5 million in cash in 2021 to approve a fraudulent invoice totaling $3.1 million – and the Ethiopian immigrant said Bock terminated her contract when she refused to cooperate.
It was the first time a witness in this month’s Feeding Our Future trial has directly accused Bock of soliciting a bribe. Prosecutors have charged that Bock organized a pay-for-play scheme in which dozens of alleged conspirators stole $250 million by pretending to feed thousands of low-income children each day across Minnesota – one of the country’s largest pandemic-related fraud schemes…