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（5月19日 路透电）明尼苏达州一家非营利组织的负责人周四被判处41年监禁，她去年被判有罪，是一起涉案金额2.5亿美元的联邦资助儿童营养项目诈骗案的主谋。
45岁的艾米·博克于2022年被起诉，她利用自己担任负责人的非营利组织“喂养我们的未来”（Feeding Our Future）实施了美国司法部所称的新冠疫情期间针对美国政府救济项目的已知最大规模诈骗案。
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另有超过70人与博克一同被起诉。这起诈骗案常被美国共和党籍总统唐纳德·特朗普援引，作为其今年早些时候针对民主党执政的明尼苏达州，加大移民逮捕和遣返力度的理由之一。就在博克被宣判的当天，美国司法部宣布对15名被控诈骗明尼苏达州医疗补助计划及其他福利项目、涉案金额9000万美元的人提起新的指控。
据《明尼苏达明星论坛报》报道，博克在明尼阿波利斯联邦法院向美国地区法官南希·布拉泽尔陈词时哭着说：“我无法用言语表达我有多糟糕。我知道我难辞其咎。”
联邦检察官曾要求判处50年监禁。布拉泽尔最终判处博克500个月监禁，即41年零8个月，并表示鉴于博克的核心主谋角色，长刑期是必要的。
“这是一场诈骗漩涡，而你正处于中心位置，”法官依据《明星论坛报》的报道如是说。
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Minnesota hunger non-profit leader gets 41 years in prison for $250 million fraud scheme
May 21, 2026 4:56 PM UTC / Reuters
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May 19 (Reuters) – The leader of a Minnesota non-profit group was sentenced to 41 years in prison on Thursday after she was convicted last year of being the ringleader of a $250 million scheme to defraud a federally funded child nutrition program.
Aimee Bock, 45, was charged in 2022 with using her non-profit group Feeding Our Future to enact what the Justice Department said was the largest known fraud against the U.S. government’s relief programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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More than 70 other people have been charged alongside Bock. The fraud has been often invoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, as part of his rationale for targeting Minnesota, led by Democrats, for an aggressive surge in arresting and deporting immigrants earlier this year. On the same day as Bock’s sentencing, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new charges against 15 people accused of defrauding Medicaid and other welfare programs in Minnesota of $90 million.
Bock cried as she addressed U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported: “I don’t have the words to express just how horrible I feel. I know I’m responsible.”
Federal prosecutors had sought 50 years in prison. In sentencing Bock to 500 months, or 41 years and eight months, Brasel said a lengthy sentence was necessary because of Bock’s central role.
“This is a vortex of fraud, and you were at the epicenter,” the judge said, according to the Star Tribune.
Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Daniel Wallis
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