In July 2019, Minnesota state officials spotted early signs of fraud that would eventually siphon away more than $1 billion in taxpayer money, sources told CBS News.

The federal courthouse in downtown in Minneapolis where Bock and Said were tried and convicted. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. Aimee Bock, the mastermind of a $250 million pandemic relief ...

The founder of a Minnesota-based charity was convicted Wednesday of hatching a brazen ruse that pilfered close to $250 million in pandemic relief funds from a federal program meant to feed hungry ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal jury in Minneapolis on Wednesday convicted Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock and former restaurant owner Salim Said on charges of wire fraud and bribery in a trial that ...

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared to suggest Sunday on CBS News that the victims of a massive COVID relief fraud ...

The plaza outside the Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse in Minneapolis is shown covered in snow on Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury found the alleged ...

Beret Leone is a native Minnesotan who joined the WCCO team as a reporter in September 2022 - and she's thrilled be back home in the Twin Cities! Beret grew up in Chaska and graduated from Bethel ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock and co-defendant Salim Said are asking a federal judge to throw out their convictions or allow them a new trial after a jury last month found ...

Aimee Bock, the 44-year-old founder of Feeding our Future, was found guilty on federal charges of wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy for recruiting a network of people and organizations to operate as ...