Following money: Investigators reveal a flow of food funds

As the criminal prosecution is preparing to conclude the case on Friday, the question whether Aimee Bock will testify in his own defense remains open, according to her lawyer.

Kenneth Udoibok, after the court on Thursday, told reporters that he does not want Bock to testify, but his client “wants to be heard.”

Two FBI forensic accountants on Thursday detailed the money flow for several entities associated with Bock’s Heding Our Future and Salim said the co -owner of the Safari restaurant.

The two are accused of watching nearly $ 250 million in fraud of the Federal Nutrition Program during the Pandemic. Prosecutors detailed a large network of companies and peel sellers, which the prosecutors say have created the illusion of thousands of meals being prepared and delivered.

The FBI forensic accountant, Pauline Roase, testified about several peel companies associated with sites that operate under the Safari restaurant. In each case, almost all the money in the accounts was derived from the food program, but they spent very little for food purchases. Safari groups were reimbursed $ 45.8 million from the Minnesota Education Department.

“The quantity spent for food is significantly low,” the jurors said.

He also detailed Bock using funds in the feeding account of our future to pay the debts sites before being paid by the MDE. The FBI witness said that Bock issued a total of $ 5.3 million in previous payments-from which USD 2.9 million were on the Safari Group websites.

During the investigation, the FBI noted the formation of 21 by feeding our future sites along a 1.8 mile stretch on Lake Street. In total, Roases confessed that the “cluster” of the sites claimed to serve 12.8 million meals for which $ 34.3 million were reimbursed.

Jurors also heard of Sonya Jansma, another forensic accountant for the FBI, who confessed about how Said spent money from his Salim Limited LLC:

• He reduced $ 890,000 on Park Avenue South Mansion. The full price of the building was $ 2.78 million, and will later become an office building.
• $ 866,000 for a business in Ohio.
• Nearly $ 1 million for a 5,962 square meter house in Plymouth
• $ 107,000 to a Chevy Silverado truck and a Mercedes GLS SUV.

Jansma is expected to finish the testimony on Friday and is the final witness of the criminal prosecution. The defense will then begin to appoint their own witnesses.

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