ST. PAUL, Minn. — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the attorney for Aimee Bock to get back confidential case documents that prosecutors say the convicted ringleader of the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme had her son email to select lawmakers and media members ahead her May sentencing.

Bock, 45, was back in front of U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel in Minneapolis after prosecutors said she violated a 2022 protective order that governs sensitive discovery documents in her case, including FBI reports that summarize interviews or conversations with witnesses. Bock, who’s been in the Sherburne County Jail since her March 2025 conviction, did not speak during the hearing.

Prosecutors asked Brasel to modify the protective order and impose sanctions, including an order prohibiting Bock from any form of contact with her sons ahead of her May 21 sentencing.

Brasel denied that request, but did modify the order limiting Bock’s access to her Dropbox account, which stores her case documents, to only when she is with her attorney, Kenneth Udoibok. Brasel also ordered Udoibok to change the Dropbox password.

Brasel said Bock’s request to her son Camden to remove trial exhibit stickers and other markings from documents before sending them “is clear evidence or concessions of guilt that she knew” they were part of the protective order.

A jury convicted Bock, the founder of Feeding Our Future, and Minneapolis restaurateur Salim Said of several counts of wire fraud and programs bribery for stealing federal money from the state through fake meal reimbursement claims to the Minnesota Department of Education. The money was supposed to provide meals to children in need during the COVID-19 crisis.

Seventy-nine people have been indicted in the $250 million Feeding Our Future case, and 65 have been convicted, mostly by entering guilty pleas. Bock, 45, faces up to life in prison at sentencing.

In a Tuesday court filing, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Murphy and Rebecca Kline said that since at least February Bock has violated the November 2022 court order by directing her college-age son Camden to download large volumes of materials related to her federal prosecution from her Dropbox account and send them to elected officials and members of the media.

“Her purpose for doing so can best be described as a public relations campaign — to seek to minimize her starring role in pilfering the Federal Child Nutrition Program while casting the ‘real’ blame for the rampant fraud on the Walz administration, state administrators and uncharged individuals,” the filing read.

The prosecutors said they learned on April 2 that a state representative had received two emails from an encrypted email address — under the name “Daisy Hill” — that claimed, “Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and the Minnesota Department of Education intentionally set Feeding Our Future and Aimee Bock up as a scapegoat.”

The emails included numerous documents governed by the protective order, including ones from Bock’s Feeding Our Future email account, prosecutors said.

Last week, the attorney’s office learned that a Minnesota Star Tribune reporter had obtained cooperating witness statements that “could only have come from the government’s discovery disclosures, in violation of the Court’s Protective Order,” the filing read.

An investigation into who leaked the documents to the newspaper got underway. Although the attorney’s office was unable to determine who sent them, “it seems apparent that Bock, or an individual acting on her behalf, is responsible for this corruption of the judicial process,” the filing read.

The investigation led to the discovery of a March 16 recorded jail call in which Bock instructed her son on how to navigate her Dropbox account and asked him to download documents that she believed showed that she tried to combat fraud at Feeding Our Future.

“Significantly, these were the same documents that were later sent to a member of the Minnesota legislature from the “Daisy Hill” Proton Mail account,” the filing read.

Prosecutors said Bock also dictated to her son what she said would be the body of the email: “Ellison’s office intentionally set Bock/FOF up to be a scapegoat.” She told her son to remove the trial exhibit stickers, and other markings indicating the documents came from her federal criminal case, before emailing them from a newly created Proton Mail account to “all republicans and the media.”

On March 27, the filing said, Bock told her son to send the files to “Republicans in DC,” especially the “guy who told Ellison he should be in jail” and the “right wing people that (President) Trump follows.”

In a recorded call on March 30, Bock asked her son whether he got “any of those emails sent?” He replied that he had sent “three so far” but because the files are so big he could only send “like one every eight hours.”

Two days later, on April 1, Bock told her son that they had to “get some more stuff out.” He replied that he had sent six emails and that one local TV reporter had replied, “thank you.”

Bock told her son that the Star Tribune wanted to interview her, the filing said. She stated that she didn’t want to “talk too much about it because obviously they listen to my phone calls.”

Later that same day, Bock told her other son Cale that a Star Tribune reporter was writing a “whole story on (an uncharged individual) and why she never got indicted, including all the evidence that exists against her.”

When son Camden voiced concerns that talking to the media might mean a longer sentence, Bock brushed it off, saying, “they want to sentence me to life anyway.”

The Star Tribune, when asked Thursday for comment on the allegations, said it “cannot comment on stories we may or may not be working on, or on our reporting process.”

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