Feeding Our Future trial: 'We may have become the mob'

In a text exchange, after someone involved in Feeding Our Future began making accusations of fraud, Aimee Bock sought to keep them quiet.

Feeding Our Future trial: FBI agent testifies
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An FBI agent highlights how Aimee Bock knew about the massive fraud in the Feeding Our Future scam. FOX 9's Rob Olson has the latest.

Feeding Our Future trial: Witness says Aimee Bock told him to falsify claims

Mohamed Hussein said it was in the spring of 2020 when two men from Feeding Our Future came to his wife’s small restaurant in Faribault to recruit them to become a meal site for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feeding Our Future trial: Mechanic testifies he had no idea he was board member

Jamie Phelps told jurors that the first time his name was in the newspaper was after his team broke the distance record for the Red Bull Flugtag in St. Paul. The second time was when he learned he was listed as the treasurer for Feeding Our Future.

FOF witness didn't know he was board's treasurer
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A witness in the Feeding Our Future trial testified in court that he didn't know he was named as the treasurer on the Feeding Our Future board of directors. FOX 9's Rob Olson has the full story.

Feeding Our Future trial: Witness says Aimee Bock knew about fraud, demanded kickback

Hanna Marekegn testified that suspected Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock had given her the "American dream life" allowing them "to own houses, good cars, and we were living very large." She also testified that it was all fraud and Aimee Bock knew it.

Feeding Our Future: Incriminating testimony
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Some of the most incriminating testimonies to date occurred on Tuesday in the trial over the Feeding Our Future pandemic fraud scandal. FOX 9?s Rob Olson has the details.

Feeding Our Future fraud: Grocery store operator pleads guilty

A Minneapolis woman who helped run a grocery store with her husband, that bilked $4.2 million in federal funds as part of the Feeding Our Future scheme, entered a guilty plea in the case.

Feeding Our Future suspect jailed after witness intimidation allegation

A Feeding Our Future defendant has been jailed after an accusation that he tried to intimidate a witness during the trial of Aimee Bock and Salim Said last week.

Feeding our Future trial: Former restaurant owner describes fraud, kickbacks

In the spring of 2020, Abdulkadir Awale says he was approached by two men from Feeding Our Future, asking him to serve meals to kids from his three Twin Cities restaurants.

Feeding our Future: Witness testimony continues
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Aimee Bock, accused of being the leader of the Feeding our Future scheme that took more than $250 million in federal pandemic aid, was back in court on Monday. FOX 9?s Rob Olson has the latest witness testimony.

Feeding Our Future trial testimony: 'We were just hunting money'

Qamar Hassan opened her S&S catering business on Lake Street in 2018, joining the Feeding Our Future meal site program in 2020 after she’d heard how much money others were making.  She wanted to do the same thing, she testified.

Feeding Our Future trial: Witness testifies
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A witness, who pleaded guilty for her role in the the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, testified in court against alleged ring leaders. FOX 9's Rob Olson has more.

Feeding Our Future: Trial restrictions tighten after alleged witness tampering attempt

A man who pleaded guilty in January to charges related to the Feeding Our Future scandal says he was approached by another defendant who will be tried in April.

Feeding Our Future: Witness intimidation testimony
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A judge overseeing the trial for the alleged ringleader of the Feeding Our Future scandal is taking action after a witness reported being approached by another suspect's relative. FOX 9's Rob Olson has the latest report.

Feeding Our Future fraud: Alleged witness tampering at trial
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Prosecutors say a Feeding Our Future trial witness was intimidated. Sources tell FOX 9 that Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson alerted Judge Nancy Brasel in court that a witness reported being approached by another defendant in a related Feeding Our Future case, who is not currently standing trial.

Feeding Our Future trial witness intimidated, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors in the Feeding Our Future fraud trial told the judge on Tuesday that a witness set to testify in the case reported that someone had tried to intimidate them.

Feeding Our Future: Meal site claims not possible, testifies school nutrition director

Stacy Koppen took the stand in the federal Feeding Our Future meal fraud trial of Aimee Bock and Salim Said and told jurors about their own efforts to box up meals for St. Paul school kids during the pandemic.

Feeding Our Future meal claims not possible: expert
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Stacy Koppen took the stand in the federal Feeding Our Future meal fraud trial of Aimee Bock and Salim Said and told jurors about their own efforts to box up meals for St. Paul school kids during the pandemic. Koppen is St. Paul Schools Nutrition Director and described using the district?s entire fleet of more than 300 buses to get meals out to pick up locations. And, if anyone else was feeding massive numbers of kids in the St. Paul area, she testified, she would have known about it.