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.
Five individuals charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud case have pleaded guilty to wire fraud. They stole $14.6 million from federal child nutrition funds intended for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pleas came ahead of a trial scheduled for next month.
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A 49-year-old healthcare company owner in Florida was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to charges including third-degree murder in the starvation death of a 7-year-old boy.
A Kentucky couple faces nearly 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to severe child abuse charges. Jerome Norman and Mary Hall locked children in a room and withheld food as punishment. Pike Circuit Court imposed the maximum concurrent sentences on Friday.
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Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old from Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty in a California federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors said he and accomplices stole $8 million in virtual currency from victims across the United States through phishing attacks. He faces up to 22 years in prison at his August 21 sentencing.
Katelyn Strohacker, the 23-year-old former daycare worker at Over the Rainbow Children's Center in Pataskala, Ohio, was sentenced Friday to 8-12 years in prison for abusing multiple children, including taping a 1-year-old girl's eyes, hands, and feet. Following her earlier no contest plea to 31 counts of kidnapping and child endangerment—as covered in prior reporting—parents expressed outrage at the Licking County sentencing hearing.
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A Wisconsin stepmother has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to chronically neglecting her 15-year-old stepdaughter, who weighed only 58 pounds when authorities intervened. Brittany Hull, 33, received the term plus four years of probation in a Marathon County court.