Prosecutors accuse Feeding Our Future founder of leaking sealed case files

Federal prosecutors are accusing Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock of turning her son into a conduit for sealed case material, saying she directed him to download files tied to her fraud prosecution and distribute them to lawmakers and the media. The motion filed Tuesday says the effort reached back at least to February and included documents covered by a protective order, among them emails from Bock’s Feeding Our Future account.

The government says the leak effort was not random but part of a broader public relations campaign meant to recast Bock’s role in the case and soften the damage from her March 19, 2025 conviction. Prosecutors say Bock also told her son to strip exhibit stickers and other markings from the files before sending them out, and that recorded jail calls captured her instructing him to send material to “Republicans in DC” and to people she believed would be sympathetic. In one alleged March 16 call, she told him to pull documents from a Dropbox account and pass them along with the claim that Keith Ellison’s office had “intentionally set Bock/FOF up to be a scapegoat.”

The filing raises a control-failure question that reaches beyond one inmate and one case file: how a defendant under court restrictions could still move potentially sensitive discovery into political and media channels from inside jail. Prosecutors say some of the material appears to have come from government discovery disclosures in violation of the court’s confidentiality order. They also say a Minnesota House member received two emails from the same address blaming Gov. Tim Walz, Ellison and the Minnesota Department of Education for scapegoating Bock and Feeding Our Future. MPR News said its newsroom received batches of files from a sender using the pseudonym “Daisy Hill,” including FBI FD-302 witness-summary forms.

The case itself remains one of the largest pandemic fraud prosecutions in the country. Federal prosecutors say the Feeding Our Future scheme exploited the Federal Child Nutrition Program during COVID-19, falsely claimed 91 million meals and diverted nearly $250 million in federal money that went toward luxury homes, cars, jewelry and travel. In the wider case, 79 defendants have been charged and 65 convictions have been secured, mostly through guilty pleas.

Bock was convicted alongside restaurateur Salim Said on wire fraud and bribery-related charges and now faces sentencing on May 21, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel. Prosecutors say federal sentencing guidelines could allow a life sentence. Bock’s attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, said he heard the jail calls and described her conduct as an inartful attempt to clear her name. Brasel said at a Thursday hearing that she would not bar Bock from talking with her sons, but signaled the court would consider a narrower remedy, a sign that the battle over document access and outside contact is now part of the trial’s integrity fight.