On Wednesday, the founder of the Minnesota charity was condemned to dismiss a rude trick that collected nearly $ 250 million of relief funds from the epidemic from a federal program aimed at feeding the hungry children in need-while the prosecutors said that it was the largest fraud in the country in the country.
Amy Book, the founder of feeding our 44 -year -old future, was convicted of fraud in wires, bribery and conspiracy to employ a network of people and organizations to operate up to 250 sites to help fraudulent meals throughout the state, according to the US Public Prosecutor's Office in MINTA.
Prosecutors said that other than profitability benefited from a change in the base that allowed student meals assistance programs to work outside school ground, as well as to share restaurants aimed at profit-blowing federal funding aimed at feeding deprived children during the epidemic in the “lifestyle”.
Salim Ahmed, the defendant, who supervised one of the fake kitchens in Minynabolis, who supervised one of the fake kitchens in Minynabolis, said after a six -week trial on a mountain of charges for its role in the plan.
American lawyer Lisa Kirkpatrick said: “Amy Bok and Salim said that he took advantage of the Kofid -19 pandemic to implement a huge fraud plan that stole the money aimed at feeding children,” said American lawyer Lisa Kirkpatrick.
“The defendants falsely claimed that they served 91 million meals, for which they received approximately $ 250 million of federal funds. This money did not go to feeding children. Instead, it was used to finance their lifestyle.”
Prosecutors said that Bok and her 36 -year -old partner, who owned the Safari Restaurant now, have created fake meals, fraudulent bills, and attendance papers with false names of thousands of children who were supposed to serve daily to secure additional financing from the US Department of Agriculture.
The defective documents were submitted to the state’s Ministry of Education, which then managed the money.
Prosecutors said that the fraudsters had detonated more than $ 240 million for children on luxury cars, international travel and luxury real estate in Minnesota, Ouhayu, Kentucky, Kenya and Turkey.
“It was the largest script in the country, and what Bok and its participants did was a beeping,” Kirkpatrick told a press conference in the wake of the jury's ruling.
“During Covid, while many were trying to be assistants, they said Book and they were thieves. They used time of the crisis as a golden opportunity to enrich themselves and their criminal partners – strangely.”
At least 70 people were accused in the scheme, and more than 40 people have approved either as guilty or convicted. The defendants are tried in different groups.
Before the launch of the last trial, the defendant admitted in the future that he would witness that there will be tampering with regard to a jury with a bag of 120,000 dollars in cash, leading to law enforcement to increase security precautions and measures to trial Bok.
The ruler of the democratic state, Tim Walz, who was conducted by Republicans for not discovering fraud soon, criticized the fraudsters for avoiding a system aimed at caring for children.
“We just need to make sure that we have put more protection walls, more security, and more ability to make sure that these criminals are unable to prey to this,” Walz said.
Boki's lawyer, Kenneth Odubuk, said he was planning to appeal the verdict, claiming that the jury had not spent enough time to consider overwhelming evidence before reaching the ruling. According to the jury's circulation for five hours.
Book is convicted of four charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to perpetuate wire fraud, bribery, and conspiracy to commit federal programs.
The comet was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four charges of wire fraud, conspiring to commit federal programs, eight charges of bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering and five charges of money laundering.
They are both detained without a bail waiting for the ruling.
An appointment has not yet been set.
With wires after.
