The head of Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the largest pandemic relief scheme in the country’s history, continues to maintain her innocence as she awaits sentencing.

Aimee Bock, 45, was found guilty in March after prosecutors deemed her to be the “mastermind” of fraudulently receiving $250 million in federal funds meant to feed underprivileged children in Minnesota. Prosecutors have charged 78 defendants and more than 60 of them have either been convicted or have pleaded guilty for their role in the Feeding Our Future scandal.

Bock shared in an exclusive interview with CBS News that she was not the “mastermind” behind the scheme, which put the Somalian community under scrutiny by federal investigators. The vast majority of the people charged in the Feeding Our Future scheme are of Somalian or Eastern African descent, with the exception of Bock, a white woman.

Bock described to CBS News that hearing her guilty verdict was “heartbreaking.”

"I believe in accountability,” Bock told CBS News.

“If I had done this, I would've pled guilty. I wouldn't have gone to trial. I wouldn't have put my children and my family through what we've been through. I've lost everything."

But prosecutors showed that Bock had signed off on “every single fraudulent claim that was submitted to the state of Minnesota."

Bock said that she stopped some claims believed to be fraudulent from going through.

"I was the only one that stopped a claim and said, this is fraudulent," Bock said. "There are tens of millions of dollars in claims that we did not pay, that we refused."

At one point Bock filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Education for failing to approve certain applicants to participate in the program. Bock labeled the state’s Education Department rejection of certain applicants to be racially motivated.

Bock also accused Minnesota state officials of using her as a “scapegoat” for their alleged failure to properly monitor participating food vendors in the program. Bock said that officials, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) would visit the sites where meal pick ups were scheduled to occur.

"We relied on the state," Bock said. "We told the state, this site is going to operate at this address, this time, and this number of children. The state would then tell us that's approved."