Feeding Our Future had inside track at Minneapolis City Hall

Before sitting down with state officials last year to discuss a meals program that is now under federal investigation for fraud, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was provided with a list of talking points that came from the woman at the heart of the alleged conspiracy, according to newly released records.

Aimee Bock, executive director of Feeding Our Future, drafted a set of talking points for Frey to use during a May 14 meeting with Heather Mueller, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), records show. At the time, the department had stopped all payments to Feeding Our Future over concerns about what it called the organization's "rapid" and "unexplained growth."

In January, the FBI raided the offices of Feeding Our Future and some of its contractors after accusing the group of defrauding two federally funded programs that provide free meals to needy children. Altogether, the FBI maintains that Feeding Our Future and its partners stole more than $40 million by inflating and even inventing reimbursement claims at dozens of meal sites across the state.

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