As I have noted a time or two before, Aimee Bock will be sentenced by Judge Nancy Brasel this Thursday. Bock is the convicted ringleader of the massive Feeding Our Future fraud.
Awaiting sentencing, Bock is cooling her heels at present in the Sherburne County Jail. The Star Tribune’s Jeffrey Meitrodt caught up with Bock for this past Sunday’s disgraceful “new documents” story. The New York Post has joined in the fun with Gabriel Fahmy’s cover story.
From her jail cell has Bock has undertaken a campaign to mitigate the sentence that Judge Brasel will impose. Both the Star Tribune and Post stories result in part from Bock’s campaign. When Judge Brasel gets done with her on Thursday, Bock will be cooling her heels for a long time in some federal prison and looking for new friends to whom she can bewail the unfairness of it all.
Bock is a deeply guilty fraudster. She took the stand on her own behalf at trial and the jury heard everything she had to say — including what she told the Star Tribune and the Post in recent days. In convicting her of the offenses charged by the government, the jury necessarily found Bock to be a consummate liar. She told whopper after whopper under oath.
Both the Star Tribune and the Post omit that part of the story. Omar herself didn’t respond to the Post’s request for comment on Bock’s statement that Omar “must have known” of the fraud. “I struggle to believe that she wouldn’t have known,” Bock said of Omar.
Bock raises in extreme form the Epimenides paradox. Whether or not it is true that Omar “knew,” and it may well be true for reasons we have repeatedly recounted here and elsewhere, Bock’s adjudicated unreliabilty and current campaign for leniency should be noted. It doesn’t help that Omar raises her own version of the paradox.
The Post also states that the government is seeking a 100-year sentence. In the event, the government is in fact seeking a 50-year sentence. However, that is the least of it. The most of it would be the omission of the campaign undertaken by the wildly manipulative Bock to win leniency from Judge Brasel — of which the Post story is a part.
