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Feds search three Somali wire firms in Portland
mainetoday ^ | February 27 , 2010 | Matt Wickenheiser

Posted on 03/03/2010 9:11:45 PM PST by george76

Federal agents seized computers and records Friday from three Somali businesses that provide money wire transfers.

Under warrants obtained through the U.S. Attorney’s Office, agents searched the Al-Amin Halaal Market on St. John Street, the Dahabshil Inc. money transfer business ...

The focus of the investigation was unclear. The warrant for Al-Amin referred to any information relating to the wire transfer business, or to food stamp fraud...

More than 20 agents searched the Dahabshil business, showing up at 9 a.m. and staying until about 3 p.m.,

(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Maine; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: foodstamp; foodstampfraud; fraud; islam; maine; michigan; muslim; muslims; rop; somali; somalia; wiretransfer

1 posted on 03/03/2010 9:11:45 PM PST by george76
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To: grellis; SunkenCiv

Food-stamp fraud: Detroit-area stores swipe millions from aid program.

Agents in another investigation discovered that cash was wired to Somalia and other countries.

http://jatfla.amplify.com/2010/03/01/food-stamp-fraud-detroit-area-stores-swipe-millions-from-aid-program/


2 posted on 03/03/2010 9:18:20 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Our government is letting these murderous parasites into our country and they are robbing us blind.


3 posted on 03/03/2010 9:43:23 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: george76

I wonder if there was more to it than food stamp fraud?


4 posted on 03/03/2010 10:10:02 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: rdl6989

Not sure,

Sounds like an al Quida fund raising scheme to move American dollars to Somali Muslim terrorists.


5 posted on 03/03/2010 10:16:27 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Sounds like someone got a tip that something like this was going on.


6 posted on 03/03/2010 10:19:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: george76
Sounds like an al Quida fund raising scheme to move American dollars to Somali Muslim terrorists.

Agreed.

7 posted on 03/03/2010 10:23:18 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
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To: george76

William Jefferson Clinton...the gift that keeps on giving! Thank you for the 90,000-strong Somali terror cell Bill Clinton!


8 posted on 03/03/2010 10:38:18 PM PST by montag813
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To: george76

Thanks to Catholic Charities of Maine


9 posted on 03/03/2010 10:55:47 PM PST by cp124 (The government junkie can't live without the fix.)
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Link at post #2

10 posted on 03/04/2010 5:40:09 AM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: george76

This is Portland Maine

Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
390 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101-5009


11 posted on 03/04/2010 6:45:00 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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Thanks george76.


12 posted on 03/04/2010 6:23:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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