Feeding Our Fraud: “We will rule the world…”

The Feeding Our Future fraud trial resumed yesterday with the continued direct examination of FBI Special Agent Travis Wilmer. Agent Wilmer was one of the lead investigators of the fraud. Prosecutor Dan Bobeir reviewed a mountain of evidence making out the fraud with Agent Wilmer in the course of his examination this past Thursday and yesterday.

The highlight of his testimony came with the introduction of text messages sent between Feeding Our Future executive director Aimmee Bock and various employees. One set of texts displayed Bock’s approach to conflict resolution with the Minnesota Department of Education and others. Referring to a site operator who had made disparaging comments about Feeding Our Future, Bock told her colleague she would sic her lawyer on the operator: “….“[S]he needs to be handled. It’s on. We may have become the mob.”

The messages included Bock’s vulgar tirades and grandiose declarations: “We will rule the world, or at least [Minnesota].” It was a bit anticlimactic, but she knew her territory.

Also included in the evidence is the SOS my friend Abdi Nur posted on Facebook in January 2022 just before the fall. Abdi commented on the accompanying video in a post that another friend translated for my use on Power Line:

The most amazing incident that you all witnessed happened last night in Minneapolis. We all witnessed a wedding of a young Somali woman who works at the office of Feeding Our Future — a nonprofit that helps provide meals to indigent children who need supportive food programs…[Vendors] are contracted in that program to distribute that food.

Last night what happened at that staff member’s wedding was shocking to the entire city. The contractors gifted the young woman in charge of coordinating the program Gold worth 10,000 dollars each — so much gold that it was wheeled in on a gold tray. The people who gifted her that entire tray are the very contractors in charge of that delivery.

Can someone tell me how and with what funds they were able to gift an office person that expensive gift individually and collectively almost $100,000 dollars? These same people some of whom are under investigation for forging names of young children they are supposed to serve!

We cannot close our eyes to such corruption, which will put our entire community’s name in the news as fraudsters and criminals when we only have a few bad apples. These women who are gifting this have been submitting names of thousands of children who are in no data base anywhere and are still being audited for those invoices.

I’m saddened that this same bride was once asked why she had signed people as vendors who were clearly unqualified and unable to follow the program’s rules. These are the same characters who did a song and dance event for the lady contracted to manage this program whose name is Amy [i.e., Aimee Bock]. I would like the entire community to be aware that we are following these events very closely as they unfold.

I posted these comments here on Power Line in February 2022. Prosecutor Dan Bobeir introduced an English version yesterday.

Bock understood that Abdi was a friend of defendant Salim Said, who is the lone remaining co-defendant on trial with her. She instructed Said: “Get that shit cleaned up.” According to Agent Wilmer, the video was removed shortly thereafter. Investigating the case, Wilmer was aware of the video and saw it at the time. He testified that it was removed from Facebook shortly thereafter, although it was introduced into evidence yesterday.

I anticipate that both Bock and Said will testify on their own behalf when the prosecution rests later this week.