In July 2019, Minnesota state officials spotted early signs of fraud that would eventually siphon away more than $1 billion ...

A Minnesota judge told the state’s Department of Education that it had a “real problem” after the agency suspended payments to an organization before federal prosecutors uncovered a fraud scheme that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rep. Omar] knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars in this program.” ...

Walz sought in 2022 to blame the judge for the resumed payments, prompting the judge to issue a statement that the governor was wrong, and the education department had resumed the payments on its own, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hanna Marekegn, who owned Brava Cafe, pled guilty to her part in the federal meal fraud in 2022, among the first to do so. She testified about a party for Bock after she won court case against the ...

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 ...