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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
As prosecutors celebrate the conviction of former Feeding Our Future director Aimee Bock as a victory for accountability, the effort to recover taxpayer money lost to the fraud continues. Investigators revealed Wednesday that they have clawed back about $60 million of the nearly $250 million stolen from the Federal Child Nutrition Program in 2020 and 2021.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Morgan Reddekopp |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
Prosecutors challenge Bock testimony in Feeding Our Future trialProsecutors on Thursday, through an intense round of rapid-fire style questioning, tried to prove that Aimee Bock knew about the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fraud occurring at Feeding Our Future sponsored sites. Bock founded the now defunct non-profit — and federal prosecutors say she and her co-defendant Salim Said conspired to steal $250 million of taxpayer money from the child nutrition program.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Morgan Reddekopp |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
As the prosecution prepares to wrap up its case on Friday, the question of whether Aimee Bock will testify in her own defense remains open, according to her attorney. Kenneth Udoibok, after court on Thursday, told reporters he doesn’t want Bock to testify, but his client “wants to be heard.”Two FBI forensic accountants on Thursday detailed the flow of money for several entities associated with Bock’s Feeding Our Future and Salim Said, the co-owner of Safari Restaurant.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Morgan Reddekopp |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
Prosecutors on Tuesday showed jurors a series of Facebook messages sent by Aimee Bock in an attempt to prove she made money from the Federal Child Nutrition program. Bock and her co-defendant, Salim Said, are accused of orchestrating nearly $250 million in fraud connected to federal aid that was supposed to help provide meals to children in need. Bock was the sole signatory on a bank account for School Age Consultants LLC.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Morgan Reddekopp |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
Prosecutors on Monday revealed a series of expletive-filled text messages between Aimee Bock and associates at Feeding Our Future, revealing how the nonprofit’s former executive director reacted to early concerns about potential fraud. “We may have become the mob,” Bock wrote to former Feeding Our Future employee, Hadith Ahmed, in 2021.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Cory Knudsen |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
Prosecutors and a federal judge called out “unprecedented behavior” Friday related to the ongoing trials of suspects connected to the massive Feeding Our Future fraud investigation. Judge Tony Leung ruled that one suspect, Abdinasir Abshir, will now remain in jail pending his trial in August after prosecutors accused him of tampering with a witness in the separate trial of Feeding Our Future’s former executive director, Aimee Bock, and restaurant owner, Salim Said.
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1 month ago | 
kstp.com | Emily Baude |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
A court-appointed trustee is now working with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) to “safely and effectively” move most of the mammals, birds, reptiles and fish still housed at SeaQuest, according to a motion filed in Idaho bankruptcy court late last week. The company that once operated nine interactive aquariums across the country now has just four locations still open for business.
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2 months ago | 
kstp.com | Eric Rasmussen |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
At 24 years old, Bohdan Sokolov has already achieved a goal that many of his fellow college graduates are still reaching for. “I wake up every day, you know, excited to go to work,” Sokolov said. His job as a police officer makes him one of 54 sworn members of the Mankato Department of Public Safety. Sokolov is already earning high praise from his superiors, including Commander Chris Baukol. “He’s exactly what we’re looking for,” Baukol said. “He’s ambitious, he’s a problem solver.
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2 months ago | 
kstp.com | Morgan Reddekopp |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
Judge Nancy Brasel ordered Feeding Our Future Founder Aimee Bock and her co-defendant Salim Said to not communicate with any witnesses or other defendants in the massive fraud investigation on Tuesday. The rebuke comes after a man, whom attorneys believe to be a relative of Said, approached a witness who was waiting to testify and asked him to go to the bathroom together.
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2 months ago | 
kstp.com | Ryan Pattee |Eric Rasmussen KSTP
SeaQuest in Roseville closed permanently on Tuesday, multiple sources confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. The closure comes as SeaQuest filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December and petitioned the court to sell the company to an insider for $80,000 in late January. SeaQuest later abandoned the sale, and a judge appointed a trustee to oversee the ongoing bankruptcy process.
