Which specific Feeding Our Future defendants have been convicted or had charges dismissed, and what sentences were imposed?
Executive summary
The Feeding Our Future prosecutions have produced dozens of guilty pleas, multiple jury convictions and a handful of acquittals, while many cases remain pending; reporters and court filings show that at least 47 defendants have pleaded guilty and seven were convicted at trial, including the organization’s founder Aimee Bock, who was convicted on all counts and ordered to forfeit $5.2 million [1] [2] [3]. Public reporting names additional convicted defendants (for example, co-defendant Salim Said and others such as Abdimajid Nur and Bekam Merdassa) but comprehensive, sentence-by-sentence details are scattered across news lists and court orders [3] [4] [1] [5].
1. Convictions, guilty pleas and who they include
Federal prosecutors and local reporting have recorded a large number of convictions in the Feeding Our Future investigation: by one comprehensive tracker, 47 people pleaded guilty and seven more were convicted by juries as of late 2025, making dozens of defendants already adjudicated in the sprawling fraud case [1]. Among the high-profile convictions by jury was founder and executive director Aimee Bock, who was found guilty on all counts in the spring 2025 trial [2]. News reports also identify co-defendant Salim Said as convicted alongside Bock [3], and coverage of the broader prosecution names other convicted figures such as Abdimajid Nur (convicted at the first courtroom trial) and Bekam Merdassa (who pleaded guilty) as part of the published lists reporters have compiled [4] [1].
2. Sentences, forfeitures and restitution that have been imposed
Concrete sentencing and financial-penalty details are best documented for the most prominent defendants: a federal judge approved a $5.2 million forfeiture amount against Aimee Bock, and she has been ordered to pay substantial restitution tied to the fraud, reflecting prosecutorial characterization of her as a ringleader [3]. Court calendars and reporting note that the first individual sentence in the broader case occurred in October 2024 and that additional defendants have been or are being sentenced [5]. Abdimajid Nur—convicted after the initial courtroom trial—was scheduled for sentencing in November (reported calendar item), while Sahan Journal and other trackers list who has been sentenced but do not consolidate every term in a single narrative; therefore, comprehensive custody terms and lengths for each convicted defendant are fragmented across court records and news lists [4] [5] [1].
3. Acquittals, dismissals and limited exonerations reported so far
Reporting indicates that not every defendant who went to trial was convicted: a contemporaneous account of the initial multi-defendant trial stated that of the first seven defendants tried, five were convicted on most charges while two were acquitted, although the public summaries do not name those two acquitted individuals in the snippets available here [6]. The sources provided do not document broader patterns of dismissed charges or mass exonerations; if charges were formally dismissed in individual files, those dismissals are not summarized in the materials supplied for this review [6].
4. What remains pending and why full sentencing data is incomplete
The investigation remains active and staggered: additional groups of defendants were scheduled for trial into 2026 and defense teams are pursuing venue changes, which affects when convictions, sentences and final restitution calculations are publicly entered [7] [8]. Reporters and trackers like Sahan Journal and Sahan’s sentencing lists capture many plea and conviction entries but do not always publish final sentencing orders in one consolidated table; consequently, while the overall scale of guilty pleas and convictions is clear, a line-by-line accounting of every convicted individual and every judicial sentence requires consulting individual federal docket entries or the updated tracking pages cited by local outlets [1] [5].
5. How this was compiled and the limits of available reporting
This synthesis relies on contemporaneous news coverage and trackers: Sahan Journal’s compilation of guilty pleas and convictions, AP and local outlets’ trial reporting, and court-related publicity about forfeiture and sentencing orders [1] [2] [3]. The sources consistently show dozens of guilty pleas, seven jury convictions and select sentencing actions, but they do not present a single verified master list of every convicted defendant paired with their exact sentence in the materials provided; therefore, readers seeking an exhaustive, sentence-by-sentence roster should consult the federal court docket entries or the updated Sahan Journal sentencing tracker cited above [5] [1].