Aimee Bock, former leader of Minnesota's Feeding Our Future charity, received a nearly 42-year prison sentence for a $250 million fraud scheme. The case was a catalyst for immigration crackdowns under the Trump administration.

A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence – nearly 42 years – to the former leader of a Minnesota charity who was convicted in a staggering US$250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Aimee Bock ran Feeding Our Future, which had claimed it helped provide millions of meals to children in need during the coronavirus pandemic. “I understand I failed. I failed the public, my family, everyone,” Bock said in federal...