Ringleader of $250M fraud scheme leaked protected documents from jail, prosecutors say

The ringleader behind the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case has been accused of directing her son to leak sensitive materials to the media and elected officials in an attempt to minimize her role in the scheme ahead of her sentencing, court documents allege. The United States Attorney's Office filed a motion on Tuesday that says Aimee Bock , since at least February, has been directing her college-age son to "download large volumes of material related to her federal prosecution," and disseminate them to lawmakers and members of the media in what "can best be described as a public relations campaign." The motion states that a member of the Minnesota House received two emails from the same address claiming "Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and the Minnesota Department of Education intentionally set Feeding Our Future and Aimee Bock up as a scapegoat." Attached to the emails were documents governed by a protective order, including emails from Bock's Feeding Our Future email account. Bock, on a March 16 recorded jail call, allegedly instructed her son to download documents from her Dropbox account, which she believed showed she tried to combat fraud at Feeding Our Future, and told him to put "Ellison's office intentionally set Bock/FOF up to be a scapegoat" in the body of the email. …