When COVID policies disrupted daily life, Bock exploited relaxed oversight and emergency rule changes in the Child and Adult Care and Summer Food Service programs. Feeding Our Future enrolled dozens of restaurants and small nonprofits as meal distribution sites, even though many served little or no food.

For nearly two years, Feeding Our Future submitted fraudulent invoices and meal counts to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), which was tasked with overseeing the program. When MDE tried to cut off payments, Bock briefly prevailed in state court after suing the department for racial discrimination.

Out of 87 people charged with crimes related to the Feeding Our Future fraud, all but 8 of them are of Somali descent.

From Wikipedia:

"Although the state agency responsible for monitoring the school meal program repeatedly tried to cut off funds, the organization was not shut down until FBI raids and federal indictments in 2022. As of early 2026, out of 79 suspects indicted in the fraud, 56 had pled guilty. Another seven individuals were found guilty at trial, including the leader of the scheme, Aimee Bock, while many others awaited trial."

Aimee Bock is now under investigation for her links to child daycare learning centers. 

Fox & Friends reported this earlier this month: "Aimee Bock claims Congresswoman Omar would personally step in when waiver claims were made by restaurants that lied about certain meals to children and pocketing the money, essentially allowing the fraud to continue."

Out of 87 people charged with crimes related to the Feeding Our Future fraud, all but 8 of them are of Somali descent.

From the Minnesota Reformer:

Feeding Our Future 'mastermind' sentenced to over 41 years in prison

Aimee Bock, convicted for leading a $242 million pandemic relief fraud scheme known as Feeding Our Future, has been sentenced to 500 months — over 41 years — in prison.

"This was a vortex of fraud, and you were at the epicenter," said U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to Bock during the sentencing hearing on Thursday morning at the Minneapolis federal courthouse.

The sentence is less than the 50 years that federal prosecutors sought as well as the maximum 100-year sentence Bock faced after Brasel overruled Bock's attorney's arguments for a shorter sentence. It's the longest sentence of any Feeding Our Future defendant so far; Brasel sentenced Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 36, to 28 years in prison in August.