‘Mastermind’: Judge orders Porsche, diamonds, $3 million in bank forfeited in Minnesota Somali fraud scheme
A judge has issued an order that the convicted ringleader of a Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scheme must forfeit her Porsche, her diamond jewelry and the $3 million plus in bank accounts.
A published report in the Daily Mail called it a “humiliating fall from grace” for the “mastermind,” identified as Aimee Bock, 44.
She was convicted of multiple counts including wire fraud in the part of the scandal in Minnesota that has focused on the “nonprofit” called Feeding Our Future.
That’s is part of what now is a massive investigation by the federal government into allegations that billions of dollars of tax money was scammed by frauds in Minnesota’s Somali community. Sometimes it allegedly was as simple as setting up a daycare and demanding payment from the government for “services” to hundreds of children, when no services were provided.
The money allegedly went toward luxury cars, jewelry, trips, properties and more.
The published reported described Bock as “a ringleader” of the Feeding Our Future manipulations, which so far has netted dozens of convictions.
Her “latest ignominy” was that she has been ordered, in a preliminary court order reviewed by the Daily Mail, to forfeit $3,506,066 seized from a bank account held by Feeding Our Future, $179,455 in a personal account, her Porsche Panamera, around 60 laptops, iPads and iPhones found at three addresses, her diamond necklace, bracelet and earrings, and Louis Vuitton purse and backpack.
The scandal already has cost Democrat Gov. Tim Walz his political future, as he’s announced he is not seeking re-election.
Bock was convicted in a six-week trial and is being held in jail awaiting her sentence.
The Mail reported, “The case rocketed back into the national consciousness over Christmas when independent journalist Nick Shirley conducted a series of visits to Minnesota daycares that serve the Somali community, attempting to interview the operators, and published his findings on X. The Feeding Our Future scandal was the worst of several welfare frauds that have engulfed Minnesota in the last few years.”
Charges have included that some $250 million that came to Minnesota from the federal government, to “buy meals for children from low-income families,” was fraud.
Law enforcement charged most of the money instead was moved into shell companies and spent on spending sprees. Law enforcement has admitted only about $75 million of the $250 million has been recovered.
Bock ran Feeding Our Future, and even at one point accused the state of discriminating against her organization because it worked in the Somali community.
Prosecutors told the jury at her trial, “Aimee Bock sat at the top of the scheme. It was Aimee Bock who overnight transformed a sleepy nonprofit into an engine for the largest COVID fraud in this country. She was relentless. She didn’t just facilitate the fraud, she fought for it. and when MDE raised concerns about Feeding Our Future and the massive claims coming, Aimee Bock went to war. She attacked MDE in the public, in the media, in the courts.”
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