Kelley said it’s commendable if prosecutors recover 25% of the money in the Feeding Our Future case.
“I don’t think people should expect to be made whole at all,” he said. “There is just too much dissipation in these kinds of cases.”
Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock, right, walks into federal court with her attorney, Kenneth Udoibok, on Feb. 10. (Leila Navidi)
That point was made repeatedly during the trial of Bock and Said, who enriched themselves off the scam and spent much of their loot before they were caught, according to bank records.
Though prosecutors said the records showed Bock personally walked away with $1.9 million, she had $185,000 left in her bank account at the time of the raids, plus another $13,462 in cash at her Rosemount home.
Her former boyfriend, Malcolm Watson, received about half of her money and spent much of it on shopping, entertainment, travel and luxury cars. Just $30,103 was left in the account when agents seized it in 2022, bank records showed.
Bock frequently teased her former boyfriend about his financial dependence on her, according to records shown to jurors.