House GOP Leadership Statement on Chief Feeding Our Future Fraudster Sentencing

ST. PAUL – Following the sentencing of Feeding our Future’s lead fraudster, Aimee Bock, House Speaker Lisa Demuth and House GOP Leader Harry Niska released the following statement.

“Aimee Bock helped mastermind the largest pandemic-era fraud scheme in the country, and today she is finally being held accountable for her crimes. Next, her co-conspirators must be held to account for theirs. But let’s be clear: most of the $250 million stolen from taxpayers will never be recovered, and fraud on this scale should never have happened.

“Local reporting this week revealed that when front-line regulators raised red flags about Feeding Our Future, managers at the Department of Education discouraged aggressive oversight because of political pressure from legislators and fears of being accused of racism. This stunning failure of leadership is exactly the culture of fraud that Minnesota must confront and correct if we are ever going to end this epidemic.”