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Prosecutors seek 50-year sentence for nonprofit leader at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case
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Prosecutors seek 50-year sentence for nonprofit leader at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case

  • By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Prosecutors are arguing in a court filing that the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted for her role at the center of a staggering $250 million fraud case should spend 50 years in prison. Aimee Bock ran Feeding our Future, which claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children in need during the pandemic. She is being sentenced Thursday in federal court in Minneapolis. Her lawyer argued in a separate filing that she should serve no more than 3 years in prison, saying she had been unfairly painted as the mastermind. President Donald Trump pointed to the frauds as justification for last year's federal immigration crackdown.

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Jury acquits 2 business executives of bribing Navy admiral for government contract

  • By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

A federal jury has acquitted two business executives of charges that they conspired to bribe a retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral, who is now serving a six-year prison sentence for his conviction on corruption charges. An earlier trial for Next Jump co-CEOs Yongchul “Charlie” Kim and Meghan Messenger ended last year with a hung jury and a mistrial. Their retrial in Washington ended Monday with a jury acquitting them of all charges, including conspiracy and bribery. Prosecutors accused Kim and Messenger of bribing retired Adm. Robert P. Burke for a military contract in exchange for a lucrative postretirement job. Burke was once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy.