India, Dec. 22 -- Aimee Bock emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as one of the most influential figures in Minnesota's federal child nutrition program, overseeing a nonprofit that claimed to feed millions of children at a time of national crisis.

Her organization, Feeding Our Future, rapidly expanded as emergency rule changes loosened oversight, allowing meal sponsors to submit reimbursement claims without standard verification. But this modest nonprofit would soon sit at the center of one of the largest fraud investigations tied to pandemic relief funds.

Federal prosecutors later alleged that behind the nonprofit's public mission was a sprawling scheme that exploited those relaxed rules, according to Fox News.

Following a lengthy fed...