$250 million: Stolen from meals for hungry kids
The largest pandemic fraud case in the country ended with its ringleader sentenced to more than 41 years.
What happened
Feeding Our Future, a Minnesota nonprofit, sponsored sites that claimed to serve meals to children during the pandemic using federal child nutrition money.
Prosecutors said the sites billed for meals that were never served. A jury convicted founder Aimee Bock, and in May 2026 she was sentenced to 500 months in prison and ordered to repay nearly $243 million.
Why nobody caught it
- Reimbursement was based on meal counts the sites reported themselves.
How sure are we?
Confirmed
Proven in court, admitted in a guilty plea, or confirmed by the agency that paid it.
Proven in court. Dozens of others have also been convicted.
Sources
- Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock sentencedCBS News · May 21, 2026
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