Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock ordered to forfeit $5.2 million

The ringleader of what authorities called the largest pandemic fraud lawsuit successful the United States has been ordered to forfeit much than $5 million.

Feeding Our Future laminitis Aimee Bock was found blameworthy successful March connected aggregate transgression counts, including conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and conspiracy to perpetrate national programs bribery. She has not yet been sentenced.

A tribunal bid issued Tuesday demands Bock forfeit astir $5.2 million. She was besides ordered to forfeit clothes, electronics and a Porsche, the worth of which volition gain her recognition toward the wealth forfeiture. The bid states much than $185,000 was antecedently seized from Bock's accounts, arsenic good arsenic $13,462 successful cash.

Dozens of radical person been convicted successful transportation with Feeding Our Future. Authorities said Bock and others stole astir $250 cardinal intended to provender bare children.

The forfeiture bid comes amid accrued scrutiny connected Minnesota pursuing wide fraud accusations.

In a viral video earlier this week, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley alleged that aggregate Minnesota time attraction centers receiving authorities funds aren't really providing services. CBS News conducted its ain analysis of the time attraction centers mentioned by Shirley. All but 2 person progressive licenses, according to authorities records, and each progressive locations were visited by authorities regulators wrong the past six months. The investigation recovered dozens of citations for safety, cleanliness and different issues, but nary recorded grounds of fraud.

Following Shirley's video, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has frozen national kid attraction backing for the state. In response, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz connected societal media said the authorities has "spent years cracking down connected fraudsters" and accused President Trump of "politicizing the contented to defund programs that assistance Minnesotans."

Jonah Kaplan contributed to this report.

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