By Joey Peters\Saharan Journal
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The attorney for Feeding Our Future’s former executive director, Aimee Bock, said his client isn’t doing well financially, lost her home and car, and is living with her parents.
Bock, who had her bank accounts frozen in early 2022 after the FBI raided Feeding Our Future and several other businesses, appeared in court Wednesday afternoon on allegations she violated her pretrial release
“No one wants to hire her,” Kenneth Udoibok, Bock’s attorney, told reporters after the hearing. “Just think about it, what you hear — the amount of money that people took … She lost her car, lost her house, doesn’t have a job. A grown woman with children is living with her parents. That’s tough.”
Bock is indicted in federal court for allegedly facilitating the theft of millions of dollars in federal food-aid money. The hearing, which lasted a few minutes, was routine: Bock consolidated her existing student debt earlier this year into a loan of $186,000 without disclosing it to her pretrial services officer.
“We think it’s a tactical violation of the terms of her pretrial release,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson told the court at the hearing. “Under terms of her pretrial release, she should disclose that to the pretrial services officer before she takes that on.”
Prosecutors did not ask to arrest Bock, who was released on her own recognizance after being indicted in 2022 in the broader Feeding Our Future fraud case, which involved the alleged theft of $250 million in federal funds earmarked to feed underprivileged children during the COVID-19 pandemic. READ MORE…
