SEE IT: Feeding Our Future fraudsters bought mansions and Mercedes with $250M in stolen meal funds

No development in Minnesota's sprawling fraud controversy captures the scale of taxpayer abuse like the Feeding Our Future scheme in which the program's director signed off on sham meal services for the poor only to have the men around her splurge on mansions luxury cars and lavish lifestyles Fox News Digital has obtained the court exhibits used at trial including photos of the properties vehicles and designer goods prosecutors say were purchased with stolen federal nutrition dollars The scheme was headed by Aimee Bock the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future an organization responsible for ensuring that needy kids didn t go hungry during the COVID pandemic Bock presided over a configuration that claimed to have served million meals for which the scammers fraudulently received nearly million in federal funds Bock who was convicted by a federal jury on March of wire fraud conspiracy and bribery for her role was dubbed the scheme s mastermind by federal prosecutors FEDERAL PROBE TARGETS ALLEGED MINNESOTA SOMALI FRAUD STRUCTURE AS COVID-AID CRIME RINGS PERSISTBock approved the meal sites specific of which were fake and then certified the declares signing off on the reimbursements from the Minnesota Department of Development MDE At least people have now been indicted in the ongoing probe Court exhibits used in the event against Bock and Salim Revealed a local restaurant owner captured several of the opulent spending Mentioned splurged his ill-gotten gains on For instance Explained used in stolen nutrition funds to buy a large home in Plymouth while another million wire transfer linked to the fraud was routed into a Minneapolis mansion-style office building prosecutors revealed that served as the headquarters for his company Safari Group The property stood in stark contrast to the daycare centers and after-school programs the federal money was supposed to help The exhibits also presented that Disclosed used fraud proceeds to buy a black Mercedes-Benz GLA and a Chevy Silverado Announced operated Safari Restaurant a small Minneapolis eatery that claimed to be serving more than meals per day to the poor according to federal exhibits while his company and co-conspirators opened additional sites as well as dozens of shell companies which received more than million in Federal Child Nutrition Venture funds prosecutors reported MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS VOW NEW CRACKDOWN AFTER B FRAUD MELTDOWN THEY SAY WALZ LET SPIRALAccording to the indictment Explained s spending spree stretched far beyond the cars and houses shown in the courtroom exhibits with additional real estate electronics cash transfers restaurant buildouts and other luxury goods purchased through shell companies he controlled Other members of the Safari group were also accused of funneling nutrition dollars into luxury cars and designer goods Federal prosecutors did not accuse Bock of personally buying big-ticket items with the fraud proceeds Instead they stated she built and protected the organization that enabled others to spend the money The exhibits show she approved the sites signed the checks and kept investigators at bay leaving her inner circle to splurge while she ran the system that made it all attainable The only money movement directly tied to Bock in the exhibits was a picture of her making a cash withdrawal evidence prosecutors revealed that she was involved in a kickback scheme by accepting cash payments from meal-site operators in exchange for site approvals and reimbursements A series of reimbursement checks she signed for alleged fraud sites were also shown evidence prosecutors disclosed captured her role as the scheme s gatekeeper though not a big personal spender Empress Malcolm Watson Jr whom the Minnesota Department of Revenue describes as Bock's boyfriend appears in selected of the exhibits including a photo of him inside a Rolls-Royce with Bock standing next to him He s pictured in another photo standing in front of a Lamborghini DEM-APPOINTED LEARNING REPRESENTATIVES FACE NEW SCRUTINY AS FEEDING OUR FUTURE OUTRAGE WIDENS TRUMP TARGETS FRAUDThe latter exhibit also shows designer bags jewelry and a white Mercedes-Benz items prosecutors labeled as Handy Helpers Spending to illustrate the lavish lifestyle surrounding Bock s grid Prosecutors made no claim that Bock bought the items herself and one co-conspirator even testified that Bock warned them not to splurge telling them that luxury purchases would become obvious Watson earned more than million for work he did as an employee of Bock s for-profit childcare consulting business as well as work his own remodeling company performed for that business according to the Minnesota Department of Revenue Prosecutors say Watson spent more than on tour jewelry vehicles cash withdrawals or transfers to other accounts Watson has not been charged in the Feeding Our Future cases He was charged with six tax-related felony offenses in September for allegedly underreporting his income for and failing to file a return for and failing to pay the income taxes he owed for those years Watson allegedly owes more than in unpaid income tax He is presently being held in the Anoka County jail on a felony probation violation unrelated to the tax scenario At trial Bock s attorneys claimed she was an unwitting administrator who trusted the wrong people and followed United States Department of Agriculture USDA rules during a chaotic pandemic The USDA supplied the federal child nutrition funds via the MDE Her defense crew reported she held the meal sites were legitimate and was being blamed for systemic oversight failures SCHEMES STACKED UPON SCHEMES B HUMAN-SERVICES FRAUD FUELS SCRUTINY OF MINNESOTA S SOMALI COMMUNITYProsecutors countered that Bock personally approved multiple of the worst offenders including the Safari organization The DOJ also introduced slides showing emails and communications where Bock accused the MDE of racism when regulators questioned suspicious alleges In when the MDE grew suspicious and tried to stop the flow of funds Feeding Our Future sued alleging racial discrimination A judge ordered the state to restart reimbursements a ruling prosecutors reported enabled the scheme to escalate Bock lied to MDE and falsely accused state representatives of racism to keep the money flowing one of the slides reads Another slide quoted a witness telling jurors Aimee Bock was a God describing how much power she held over the architecture The administration presented multiple slides showing that spectators testified that Bock understood the numbers were fake or impossible and approved them anyway That math ain t mathin mentioned Cerresso Fort the owner of SIR Boxing describing figures he recounted jurors could not have been real Although the Safari Group was the single largest cell in the operation prosecutors revealed more than a dozen additional networks operated under Feeding Our Future s umbrella Taken together these groups submitted more than million in fake invoices making the conspiracy one of the largest pandemic-era frauds in the United States