United States v. Bock and Said — U.S. District Court, D. Minn.

Case summary

This case page holds two filings from the trial of Aimee Marie Bock and Salim Ahmed Said in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, No. 0:22-cr-00223, described in the filings as the fraud scheme generally known as Feeding Our Future. The indictment charged Bock and Said among fourteen defendants in a sixty-one-count indictment alleging a scheme to defraud the Federal Child Nutrition Program. A twenty-one-day jury trial ran from February 3 to March 18, 2025. The jury convicted Bock of wire fraud conspiracy, four counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and one count of federal programs bribery, and convicted Said on twenty-one counts. On August 22, 2025 the court denied both defendants' motions for judgment of acquittal and Bock's motion for a new trial. No judgment or sentence is on this page.

Case at a glance

What did the jury decide?

It convicted both defendants on all counts. Bock was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery and one count of federal programs bribery; Said was convicted of twenty-one counts, including nine counts of federal programs bribery.

What did the August 2025 order decide?

It denied Bock's and Said's motions for judgment of acquittal under Rule 29 and Bock's motion for a new trial under Rule 33, holding the evidence sufficient to sustain the verdicts.

Which statutes were at issue?

Wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 and federal programs bribery under 18 U.S.C. § 666: the order records that Bock was convicted of accepting a bribe under § 666(a)(1)(B) and Said of bribe-giving under § 666(a)(2).

Summary written from the documents on this page; every sentence is sourced.