Pandemic meal-fraud mastermind handed 41.5-year prison term

Former Feeding Our Future executive director Aimee Bock was sentenced to 41.5 years in federal prison for leading a scheme that defrauded more than $240 million from a federal child meals program. Convicted in March 2025 of wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy, she was ordered to pay about $243 million in restitution. The case has spurred widespread scrutiny and prosecutions—nearly 80 people charged with over 60 convictions—though the sentence fell short of prosecutors’ 50-year request.