Overview
- Bock told CBS she relied on Minnesota to approve meal sites and said she tried to stop fraudulent claims before they were paid.
- Prosecutors maintain she led the scheme and say she signed every fraudulent submission, a position a jury accepted in convicting her on all counts.
- A federal judge ordered her to forfeit more than $5 million, and she remains in custody awaiting sentencing as asset recovery continues.
- Program claims attributed to Feeding Our Future grew from about $3.4 million in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021 under COVID-era waivers.
- Minnesota officials say they referred the case to the FBI in 2021, and a 2024 watchdog report described oversight being chilled by legal and media pressure; 78 people have been charged and more than 60 have pleaded guilty or been convicted.