I spent 30 years as an expert witness answering one question for a judge or jury: did the person managing someone else’s money know, or should have known, something was wrong. Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) Minnesota just handed the country a five-minute version of that question. Federal prosecutors say Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit group meant to feed hungry children during the pandemic, became a $250 million pipeline for luxury cars, real estate, and international travel.
Its founder, Aimee Bock, was sentenced in May to 500 months, more than 41 years, and ordered to pay $243 million in restitution. The judge told her she had sat at the epicenter of a fraud vortex. That much is settled. What is still disputed, and what should worry taxpayers of every party, is whether the officials supposed to be watching were asleep at the wheel, or knew it was on fire and filed the paperwork anyway.
