Posted on 05/17/2018 5:18:46 AM PDT by SJackson
$100 million in taxpayer cash shipped out of country in past year alone.
At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the carry-on bag bulged with $1 million in cash from a welfare rip-off scheme. The loot was headed for Somalia, some of it to regions controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group, and this shipment was part of $100 million sent over the past year alone.
This scheme was not uncovered by the New York Times, CNN, “Frontline” or any “investigative” journalist in the old-line establishment media. It came to light in “Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why?” a story by Jeff Baillon of KMSP, a Fox News outlet in Minnesota and the subject of a Powerline blog by John Hinderaker on Monday.
Back on March 15, Fox 9 got a tip about a man leaving the country with $1 million in cash, but this was only part of the story. “Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.”
Glen Kearns, a former Seattle police detective formerly with the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, told Fox “it’s an outright crime, it’s unbelievable.” The operator was part of “Hawalas,” businesses that transport money to countries that have no legitimate banking system.
According to Kearns, the money was going to an area controlled by al Shabaab, which operates the Hawala there. As Kearns learned, those sending tens of thousands of dollars “happened to be on government assistance in this country,” the USA. As Kearns’ sources explained, “It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,” a story Fox 9 had been covering for five years.
Somali fraudsters would start a daycare center and sign up low-income families that qualify for child-care assistance funding. Parents would check in the kids and promptly leave, but the center would bill the state for a full day.
Fozia Ali, a city official in Hopkins Park, ran a daycare center in south Minneapolis that billed the government for more than $1 million in bogus childcare services. The FBIs Craig Lisher told Fox that “some of the funds went overseas.” On trips to Dubai and Kenya, staying in luxury hotels, Fozia Ali “used an app on her phone to bill the state of Minnesota for childcare services.” She is now serving time in federal prison, but the rip-off did not end there.
In 2015, investigators tracked $14 million in those mysterious suitcases at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. By 2016 it was $84 million and last year a full $100 million, all ripped off from American taxpayers. Fox reporters asked Kearns if any of the money was funding terrorism.
“I say absolutely,” Kearns confirmed. “Our sources tell us that. Good sources, from the community leaders.” And as Fox noted, “fraudsters in other states are now using the Minnesota playbook to rip off millions of public dollars meant to help kids.”
Way back in November of 2002, one year after the 9/11 attacks, historian Roger McGrath authored “The Great Somali Welfare Hunt.” As he noted, Lewiston, Maine, a mill town of 36,000 on the Androscoggin River, “has been the destination for hundreds of Somali Muslims.” This was due to the Refugee Act of 1980, which changed the priority of favoring refugees from Communist countries and rebranded “refugee” as any person unwilling or unable to return to their homeland because of a fear of persecution etc.
According to Renee Bernier of the Lewiston city council, the Somalis “came in droves off the busses” and “some made the welfare office their first stop.” They could grab five years of assistance, public housing and Section 8 vouchers. As McGrath noted, “employment opportunities are evidently a low priority.”
In similar style, as Soeren Kern observed, “Jihadists Exploit Welfare Benefits” in Europe. In Austria, jihadists used welfare payments to finance trips to Syria. Jihadists in Belgium received nearly $60,000 in welfare benefits and used the money to finance terror plots. Some jihadists continued to receive welfare after they had traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State.
In Britain, Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll his terror plot. The Islamist Anjem Choudary, a supporter of ISIS, was taking home $32,000 a year in welfare benefits, plus money for housing and income support.
As Kern noted, “Choudary believes that Muslims are entitled to welfare payments because they are a form of jizya, a tax imposed on non-Muslims as a reminder that they are permanently inferior and subservient to Muslims.”
In all likelihood, the Somali Muslims in Minnesota believe they are likewise entitled to the money of non-Muslim American workers. So they rip off American taxpayers, stuff suitcases with cash, and send the money winging to Islamic terrorists abroad.
As Glen Kearns told Fox, “my personal opinion is we need a nationwide task force to clamp down on this type of fraud.” It might take just a bit more than that.
Criminals and welfare cheaters abound in the United States. A ballpark figure for the number the USA should import is zero.
We are paying for this, with the help of the authorities who willingly pay no attention to the fraud because they want m*slim votes.
End welfare to immigrants, green card holders and refugees.......
We need to respect their culture.
Diversity is our strength.
If they are filing the required reports, there’s nothing illegal about flying with a suitcase full of cash.
Now if the money was stolen or embezzled, that’s something else, but adding the bit about flying suitcases is clearly an attempt to create hysteria.
It will be interesting to discover whether or not the above mentioned are in on this scam!
I have a second cousin, who came to this country as a young teen after WW II. His family had had a hard time in Hungary during the war.
My father, who didn’t have much money, sponsored them. Now, we were at best lower middle class... he was an upholstery salesman for Sears, and although I didn’t realize it, he was responsible for their pulling their own weight. It was never a problem, and had it been, it would have been pretty rough for us.
The second cousin must now be pushing 80. He went to college (at that time CCNY, the City College of NY) was quite decent, and became a very successful electrical engineer. There was no talk of milking the dole.
That’s the way it was. That’s the way it should be.
They are NOT “refugees”. They are thieves. All of them.
HOW can you guys stand living in MN anymore???
Somalis may be the worst.
Goldman Sachs is the principal member of the WIC (Welfare Industrial Complex).
Profits from US tax payers for facilitating welfare transfer payments total almost 1 Billion USD.
The revolving door between Goldman Sachs and positions of power and influence within the US federal government needs to be welded shut and bricked over.
I thought it was because we owe them Reparations for The Crusades.
That’s chump change. Bammy gave the Iranians a billion.
I bet if an American tried to get $1 million out in a suitcase, it would be seized.
Right of course. My grandparents came here in the early 20’s and there was no safety net.
As a matter of fact, the physicals which took place were partly to assure that only able-bodied people came into the country.
and would
That is, people who could work to support themselves... who would NOT be a boat anchor around anyone’s neck...
And... they all worked like maniacs... every one of them. They struggled, sure, but always took care of their own and kept out of debt.
Standing around with your hand out and whining to the gov’t for special consideration and free stuff, AS IF you were someone special, was unheard of and dishonorable.
My grandfather retired from a steel mill at 65 and immediately went to work in another ‘mill’ which was 5 miles from his home. He didn’t drive and wouldn’t spend the nickel for a bus trip ... so he walked every day to work.
I heard later from my aunt, that the police officers knew my grandfather on sight and in bad weather, they would pull over and give him a lift to work.....
Good old days!
Family took care of family.
The churches took care of those with no family.
That’s the way it was...........When we were great.
Then, liberalism....................
Shame was a good tool. We should learn to use it again.................
Minnesotans must be so proud to be funding America-hating Somali muzzies so much!
They must also love the leftist state they’re in and all its welfare programs. They must love their overburdening laws and regulations and limitations on property they own and activities they can do.
Somalia is one of the most backward, inbred, low IQ, violent countries on the Earth.
These people shouldn’t be allowed out of their country, much less into civilized countries of the West.
ABSOLUTELY ... stigma worked and even in school ... getting bad grades was a real ‘shame’.
No one wanted to be known as a ‘dummy’ or get held back a year in school.
NOW... everyone passes and everyone, no matter how uneducated or mediocre, moves forward as if they actually KNOW something.
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