ミネソタ州で2億5000万ドル規模の詐欺スキームの首謀者として有罪判決を受けたエイミー・ボック被告に対し、木曜日、40年以上の禁錮刑が言い渡された。裁判官はさらに、連邦政府に対し約2億4300万ドルの返還を命じた。
ボック被告は昨年、陪審員により通信詐欺の共謀および連邦プログラムにおける贈収賄の共謀で有罪評決を受けており、500ヶ月（約41年）の禁錮刑が言い渡された。検察側は本件を、健康危機下で子供たちに食事を提供するための政府資金を悪用した、全米最大のパンデミック関連詐欺事件であると指摘している。
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Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges Thursday against 15 defendants accused of stealing more than $90 million from Minnesota Medicaid and social service programs. The announcement came during a press conference in Minneapolis attended by top Trump administration officials. Authorities described the schemes as systematic theft targeting vulnerable populations including children with autism and the homeless.
Abdikerm Eidleh, 42, was taken into custody Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia, in connection with the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Federal officials described the arrest as the result of a joint operation with Somali authorities.
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Abdikerm Eidleh appeared in federal court in St. Paul on Friday after his arrest in Mogadishu. The 42-year-old faces 31 charges tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
Vance Boelter received two life sentences followed by 40 years in prison Thursday for the 2025 shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark while wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.
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The Court of Guarantee of Antofagasta accepted the request from former mayor Karen Rojo's defense and credited her with 1,463 days spent in detention in the Netherlands. This leaves the former municipal leader with about one year left to serve her five-year-and-one-day sentence for fraud against the state.
A Michigan couple has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for abusing their adopted daughters. Jessica Klimp, 45, and Jason Klimp, 47, pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree child abuse.
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A Nebraska man was sentenced Tuesday to a minimum of 88 years and six months in prison for breaking into his ex-fiancée's home and killing her. Casey Kindt, 55, received the term for the February 2025 murder of 36-year-old Jamie Hagen in Seward.