Last month, Aimee Bock, Feeding Our Future founder and CEO, was sentenced to 500 months in federal prison for her role in the free-food scandal that rocked the nation. That works out to 41 years and 8 months behind bars.
She was also ordered to pay back $242,807,755, “immediately.” That latter amount represents the share of the total fraud that flowed through her nonprofit over the course of years.
Of course, she is dead broke. The feds seized anything she had of value back in January 2022 in a series of spectacular raids carried out throughout the metro area and involving some 200 federal agents.
Although Bock’s sentencing hearing took place back on May 20, the related documents were not filed until June 5.
Many will hope that the sentencing of Defendant No. 1 in the case (out of 80, so far) will mark the end of the saga, or at least the beginning of the end. No, it’s more like the Churchillian “end of the beginning.”
Bock was just the 16th defendant sentenced so far in the case, out of the 66 who have been convicted, to date.
Another eight sentences are scheduled to be handed down in the next few months. Next up (June 15) is Najmo Ahmed, defendant No. 62, and a former international fugitive from justice. Prosecutors are asking for a prison sentence of more than two years in her case.
