Photos show how Feeding Our Future director enabled fraud as associates lived the high life

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – No case in Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal 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 network that claimed to have served 91 million meals, for which the scammers fraudulently received nearly $250 million in federal funds. Bock, who was convicted by a federal jury on March 19, 2025, of wire fraud, conspiracy and bribery for her role, was dubbed the scheme’s “mastermind” by federal prosecutors.

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Bock approved the meal sites, some of which were fake, and then certified the claims, signing off on the reimbursements from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). At least 78 people have now been indicted in the ongoing investigation.

Court exhibits used in the case against Bock and Salim Said, a local restaurant owner, captured some of the opulent spending Said splurged his ill-gotten gains on.

For instance, Said used $250,000 in stolen nutrition funds to buy a large home in Plymouth, while another $2.7 million wire transfer linked to the fraud was routed into a Minneapolis mansion-style office building, prosecutors said, 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 showed that Said used fraud proceeds to buy a black 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLA and a 2021 Chevy Silverado.

Said operated Safari Restaurant, a small Minneapolis eatery that claimed to be serving more than 4,000 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 $32 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds, prosecutors said.

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According to the indictment, Said’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 said she built and protected the network 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 possible.

The only money movement directly tied to Bock in the exhibits was a picture of her making a $30,000 cash withdrawal, evidence, prosecutors said, 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 said 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 some 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.

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The 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 network. 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 $1 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 $680,000 on travel, 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 2020 and 2021, failing to file a return for 2022 and failing to pay the income taxes he owed for those years. Watson allegedly owes more than $64,000 in unpaid income tax. He is currently being held in the Anoka County jail on a felony probation violation unrelated to the tax case.

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 team said she believed the meal sites were legitimate and was being blamed for systemic oversight failures.

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Prosecutors countered that Bock personally approved many of the worst offenders, including the Safari network.

The DOJ also introduced slides showing emails and communications where Bock accused the MDE of racism when regulators questioned suspicious claims. In 2021, 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 said enabled the scheme to escalate.

“Bock lied to MDE and falsely accused state officials 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 network.

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The government presented multiple slides showing that witnesses testified that Bock understood the numbers were fake or impossible and approved them anyway.

“That math ain’t mathin’,” said Cerresso Fort, the owner of SIR Boxing, describing figures he told jurors could not have been real.

Although the Safari Group was the single largest cell in the operation, prosecutors said more than a dozen additional networks operated under Feeding Our Future’s umbrella. 

Taken together, these groups submitted more than $250 million in fake invoices, making the conspiracy one of the largest pandemic-era frauds in the United States.

OnlyFans model says Sherrone Moore made wild request after Michigan National Championship Game

The Sherrone Moore saga may have been more illicit and depraved than what’s been previously reported. ALLEGEDLY.

OnlyFans model Mia Sorety — who previously claimed Sherrone Moore slid into her DMs during halftime of the Ohio State game in November — now tells OutKick exclusively that the former Michigan coach made a wild, indecent proposal after the 2024 National Championship. >>

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In a private exchange with OutKick, Sorety explained the level of interaction she’s had with the married father of three who was bailed out of a Michigan county jail on Friday. 

Do you have a Sherrone story to tell? Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.com

Let’s just say the heat has officially been turned up on the Internet. 

OutKick reached out to Sherrone Moore’s attorney, Joe Simon, and the University of Michigan for comment on the following allegations. Neither has responded.

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Soon after the confetti came falling from the rafters of NRG Stadium after Jim Harbaugh and his Wolverines won the national championship, Sorety found herself at a Houston hotel at the request of Moore, she says. 

This is exactly what Sorety told us through a series of DMs on X: “I was also in the hotel after the championship game for after game fun (nothing sexual) per his request in houston as im now living in Houston,” Sorety explained to OutKick. “[Sherrone] was offering me and 2 other onlyfans girls season tickets in exchange for a 4 sum hotel fun.”

Yes, “4 sum.” As in foursome. Not easing into it with a threesome. Not a threesome and then you work your way up to a foursome? The Michigan superfan didn’t stutter. She says Sherrone wanted a foursome.

“I declined because im already rich and can buy my own tickets,” Sorety boasted, before dropping another huge bombshell. She also claims that instead of the foursome, Moore “was venting to me about his wife and side chick drama.” 

If you’re keeping score at home, Moore was cheating on his wife with a staffer and then complained about both of them to a third woman he was also trying to cheat with. (Allegedly, of course.)

Sorety makes further claims about Moore sending DMs during Michigan games

Previously, Sorety claimed Moore sent her DMs during the Ohio State game last month. Now she also claims that the football coach sent her DMs “before during and after the [Purdue] game” on Nov. 1.

Any others?

“[Oklahoma] at halftime and michigan state,” she added. 

When OutKick pressed her on the context of those DMs — Was Sherrone asking for her advice on halftime adjustments? — Sorety noted that she’s not ready to reveal such details but notes that there’s “more to come.” 

Moore faces legal and personal challenges

During Friday’s arraignment hearing in a Washtenaw County Court building, prosecutor Kati Rezmierski laid out the preliminary findings. Moore faces a third-degree felony home invasion charge along with misdemeanor stalking and breaking and entering charges. 

“As we all know by now, at some point on Wednesday afternoon Moore was fired from his employment. He than at some point thereafter, came to her apartment in the address that is alleged in the complaint, barged his way into that apartment, immediately then proceeded to open the kitchen drawer, grabbed several butter knives and a pair of kitchen scissors and began to threaten his own life,” Rezmierski told the court. 

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“‘I’m gonna kill myself, I’m gonna make you watch, my blood is on your hands, you ruined my life’. And a series of very intimidating and terrifying statements and behaviors there in that apartment,” she continued. 

As for the personal challenges, when Moore’s attorney was asked where his client would be staying after being bailed out of jail and whether he’d be able to go home, Simon didn’t take the bait. “I’m just not going to answer that question,” the attorney told the media. 

In a wild time for college sports, the Sherrone Moore saga may be the wildest yet. A man who reached the top of the mountain in college football with a wife and three young daughters. Only to burn it all down.

An affair with a staffer all the while allegedly texting an OnlyFans model during Michigan games he was coaching. While trying to sleep with her. And this is what we know so far.  Stay tuned. 

$1B Minnesota scam deepens as Fox finds 22 ‘businesses’ linked to one address

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – As a massive fraud scheme costing state and federal taxpayers at least $1 billion dollars continues to unfold in Minnesota, Fox News Digital visited several locations that received funding through programs like Feeding Our Future and found several inconsistencies exposing the depth of the scandal. 

The now-infamous Griggs-Midway Building housed an “unusual concentration” of fraudulent entities involved in the HSS scheme, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.

Twenty-two “businesses” connected to the HSS program were registered to this single location. Thompson described these entities as “purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system.”

These 22 fraudulent businesses collectively billed Medicaid for a staggering $8 million between January 2024 and May 2025.

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An in-person investigation by Fox News Digital of the building, located in St. Paul, Minnesota, showed huge swaths of the southern side of the building completely abandoned. A black and white banner advertising open spaces in the building was adorned atop the “Griggs-Midway Building” sign.

Several men sat together and engaged in conversation at the building entrance. When approached, the men told Fox News Digital that they did not speak English.

However, the western side of the building housed a number of seemingly legitimate businesses on the first floor, including a hair salon, a financial support and loan service for African immigrants and a property management office.

Following extensive FBI searches of the building, the Minnesota Department of Human Services conducted approximately 40 investigations into providers associated with the larger Griggs-Midway building.

Brilliant Minds Services allegedly submitted over $2.3 million of the $8 million in fraudulent claims from the Griggs-Midway location, ranking as one of the state’s highest-billing HSS providers last year.

Four defendants, Moktar Hassan Aden, 30; Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29; Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26; Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27, were charged in the fraud case. Mohamed was the owner of one of the other fraudulent businesses implicated, Foundation First Services LLC.

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Another false claim location took Fox News Digital to a second-story walkup above a sushi shop just blocks away from the Mississippi River.

The entryway was locked, and it was unclear whether the fraudster simply utilized the address to keep distance, or if the fraudster was actually located at the unit number listed on the claim.

The second floor showed little sign of life. Though one window displayed a “No Kings, No Fascists” sign facing out onto the snowy city street.

A large uniform reddish-brown brick building known as “Winsor Plaza” was the next destination of Fox News Digital’s trek through a brewing Minnesota snowstorm.

The simple, box-like form of the building was centered by a red canopy protruding from the structure’s primary entrance. A white-water tower with “Roseville” painted in red letters rose in the distance through the fog. Inside, a directory showed dozens of legitimate businesses, including doctors’ offices and wealth management services.

A search through the quiet halls of 1935 W County Road gave way to confusion. Unit 150, the office space listed on the false claim, was nowhere to be found. It appeared that in the building’s current configuration the suite simply did not exist. Not only was the claim fraudulent, so was the address.

A similar situation occurred at 9120 Baltimore St N. The claims report noted that the fraudulent entity was operating out of suite 100. Upon arrival, 9120 was seen affixed to a stone pillar in the center of a business parking lot.

However, there was no conglomerate of office spaces or apartment units, no numbers affixed to different storefronts. Only a singular, operational dental office. Another apparent fraudulent address.

The trend was broken at the next two locations.

2756 Douglas Dr N is a commercial address in Crystal, Minnesota, housing businesses like Rock Bridge Counseling & Mental Health and All Kind Painting & Cleaning, offering services for teens in crisis and home improvement, respectively.

These two businesses comprise suites A and B of the building but were not the fraudulent entities listed on location claims. A real building, with real businesses, but a fake company that appeared to never exist in that space.

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Another stop, 1541 Como Ave, was found inside a narrow St. Paul, Minnesota alleyway. The address housed a small, rusted garage affixed to the back of a church. The garage appeared vacant, with no mailbox or garbage cans.

A picnic bench just outside the garage door was covered in leaves, snow and other debris.

Several gentlemen inside a nearby local business told Fox News Digital that a man named “John” had used the location for a small pop-up gym and fitness center. He was often seen driving around in a fancy car. There was no indication as to whether this location was the legitimate operation center of the fraudulent claim.

4601 E 54th St, another location tied to the scandal, was visited by Fox News Digital only to find an empty parking lot. The address listed was in the 400s on the street. However, there are no 400s on that street, only 500s.

Another location, 2720 E Lake St, was completely boarded up and covered in graffiti with a homeless individual sleeping out front. The building appeared to have been inoperable for a long period of time.

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“Most of that $500 million hasn’t served a single meal and some of the simple things are if they would have just gone to the facilities, you know, you hear of the thousands of people being served out of an apartment twice a day, all they would have to do is show up and look at it,” Minnesota Republican state Sen. Mark Koran told Fox News Digital about the fraud that was hiding in plain sight in Minneapolis.

“There was an legislative auditor report that showed that 30 property owners where these businesses claim to operate out of, contacted the Department of Education who manage it, who managed that program, and they told them one, the businesses don’t exist in their facilities, so they don’t exist, period, and one of them I think was a city park,” Koran said. 

“And so the Department of Education gave that complaint to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future to address those issues and the Department of Education continued to pay millions to those thirty with a blatant, simple process of ‘we’ve been notified they don’t exist’ and they rejected and ignored it.”