Minnesota fraud: Sentencing date set for convicted Feeding Our Future 'ringleader' Aimee Bock

3 more plead guilty in Feeding Our Future scandal

Three more people pleaded guilty in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme Friday. FOX 9's Rob Olson has more. 

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock, who prosecutors called the "ringleader" of a massive pandemic fraud scheme, has had her sentencing date scheduled more than a year after she was convicted. 

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Feeding Our Future Founder to be sentenced 

What's next:

Bock is set to be sentenced by judge Nancy E. Brasel at 9 a.m. on May 21, 2026. 

The backstory:

A jury found Aimee Bock guilty on all seven counts she faced, including charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and federal programs bribery.

Bock defended herself during the trial, contending that wire fraud was committed by other people who simply copied her on emails, that she never demanded bribes or kickbacks, and that there was no agreement with anyone to do either of those things.

Bock testified that the rapid growth of Feeding Our Future, founded in 2018, had everything to do with the demand for food, not a scheme to defraud the government.

The number of meal sites grew from a few dozen to a few hundred because "there was record high unemployment," she said. "There were people experiencing needs that they had not typically experienced."

Earlier in the trial, prosecutors had shown how she approved 21 meal sites along a 1.8-mile stretch of Lake Street, which together claimed to serve as many kids as there were in the entire Minneapolis school district.