Feeding Our Future fraud ringleader Aimee Bock will be sentenced at a hearing before Judge Nancy Brasel at 9:00 this morning. The government has asked for a sentence of 50 years. Bock has asked for a sentence of time served or a maximum of 37 months.
Judge Brasel has the discretion to depart from the recommended sentence under the federal sentencing guidelines, but she will take them into account in imposing sentence. According to the government sentencing memorandum, the otherwise restricted pre-sentence report prepared for the court arrives at an offense level of 43 under the guidelines applicable to Bock’s case.
An offense level of 43 calls for a sentence of life, which would be closer to 50 years than time served or 37 months. Among other things, we will learn if Bock’s public relations campaign using the services of the Star Tribune and the confidential witness interviews unlawfully disclosed to it have served her well. See the government sentencing memorandum at pages 14-16 & 20.
The Star Tribune will not cover that aspect of the sentencing. Neither will the rest of the press covering the sentencing. That much I can tell you. Our coverage of that aspect of the sentencing is highly likely to be a Power Line exclusive.
The Department of Justice has announced a press conference that will be held a few floors down from the sentencing hearin at 11:00 this morning. It features a large entourage of government officials: Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division Colin McDonald, Vice Chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Andrew Ferguson, FBI Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, and my friend U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen.
The Department of Justice has called the press conference to “Unveil Significant Law Enforcement Action Involving Fraud in Minnesota.” You may have heard there is a lot of it going around. I plan to be at the unveiling, although it may require me to leave the sentencing hearing early. If you would like to see the press conference yourself, it will be livestreamed at www.justice.gov/live.
