Don't forget this terrorist.
Posted on 05/15/2018 6:24:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is certainly a contender. Fox 9 television uncovers a far-reaching scandal: last year, more than $100 million in cash left the Twin Cities airport in carry-on luggage, bound for the Middle East and Africa:
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on.
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.
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.
Where does the money come from, and where is it going?
It was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system.
Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds to help impoverished relatives back home.
[Former Seattle police detective Glen] Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
Great. But the real scandal is where the money came from in the first place–welfare fraud:
As Kerns dug deeper, he found that some of the individuals who were sending out tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments happened to be on government assistance in this country.
How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home?
“We had sources that told us, ‘It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,’” said Kerns. *** Five years ago the Fox 9 Investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was on the rise in Minnesota, exposing how some businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government subsidies meant to help low-income families with their childcare expenses.
“It’s a great way to make some money,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said.
In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers need to sign up low income families that qualify for child care assistance funding.
Surveillance videos from a case prosecuted by Hennepin County show parents checking their kids into a center, only to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes, no children would show up.
Either way, the center would bill the state for a full day of childcare.
Video from that same case shows a man handing out envelopes of what are believed to be kickback payments to parents who are in on the fraud.
Evidently welfare fraud in various forms is widespread in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community. This is, I think, generally known, but the scale of fraud disclosed here is astonishing:
“We believe that there’s a scope of fraud out there that we really need to get our arms around and ensure that those dollars are going to kids that really need them,” Acting Commissioner for the Department of Human Services Chuck Johnson said.
He told the Fox 9 Investigators his agency has 10 daycares currently under active investigation for fraud.
Fox 9 has learned dozens more are considered suspicious.
Search warrants obtained by the Fox 9 Investigators show each one of the suspect centers has received several million dollars in childcare assistance funds.
According to public records and government sources, most are owned by Somali immigrants. *** Sources in the Somali community told Fox 9 it is an open secret that starting a daycare center is a license to make money.
The fraud is so widespread they said, that people buy shares of daycare businesses to get a cut of the huge public subsidies that are pouring in.
Government insiders believe this scam is costing the state at least a hundred million dollars a year, half of all child care subsidies.
A friend who saw this news story wrote:
This has me more angry than I’ve been since the 2011 tax increase on the “rich” aka, working families. I can’t put into words how utterly incompetent you must be to not have a checks and balances in place for tax payer funded programs, the tax payer dollars that people like myself and millions others diligently pay quarterly, leaving our children in childcare to work and provide for our families, pay taxes, only to have this hard work fund bogus programs that somehow are funding the same terrorist activities meant to harm our country?!!! Unbelievable. The commissioner and employees responsible for overseeing this mess should pay, every single one of them – they should be fired – they didn’t do their job.
Her outrage is appropriate, but perhaps misguided. I suspect that many of Minnesota’s liberals think that our bureaucrats performed their jobs very well: they siphoned off hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to finance liberal constituencies—the principal purpose of government, according to our lib friends.
So, how dumb are we? Honestly, I think it is impossible to plumb the depths of our stupidity. We need to totally revamp both our immigration policies and our welfare system to protect not only Minnesota taxpayers, but people around the world who are vulnerable to terrorism.
Liberalism on parade
Anything musñimss do is ok
Cause they are Multi cultural don’t cha know ?
Great work on this thread (as usual)
Thanks for all you do
If my calculator is right, $100 million, in cash, (with the largest denomination available, the $100 bill) would be one million $100 dollar bills...what size “carry on luggage” would it take to hold that much?
But, it’s early, I just got up, so my math may be wrong...but....
Nowhere near as bad as electing Jesse Ventura governor.
Or electing Al Franken.
(BTW, Norm Coleman lost to both)
bump for later
The worst one I remember was in the ‘70s when 76 parents were accused of child abuse.
Burnsville, MN.
There children were taken from them, their names publicly in print.
The media claimed it was a sex cult and involved all 76 parents.
Went on for years...
Turns out it was a janitor in the school.
The story quickly vanished.
Out of curiosity, where was your old beat and how has it changed?
daycare fraud....abut 10 years ago, after taking out son out of the pitiful city schools here, we were approached by a company by the name of Fus ion X (separated in case..)that had a “teaching day care” in a local distressed shopping area, so we went to see what it was about. I smelled scam the minute I walked in. As this was well into the first term of “the great one” my first thought was that this was a pipeline of money with the government funding and all. We ran away, but noticed it’s still there., a while back and with all the programs that are named fusion in the federal system, perhaps those are the first that should be checked out for fraud. Funding the deep state? They are getting tons of money from somewhere and it isn’t idealists. Meanwhile the battle goes on.
Right. I had forgotten that other asshole...easy person to forget.
We lived in Prior Lake.
Shopped in Savage/Burnsville.
Office in St. Paul.
I went into the former Dayton’s in Burnsville and was confronted by women clerks wearing purple sheets. Ditto up the street at the Holiday Inn.
Minneapolis has become a “no-go” zone. The airport is overrun with the same people. You can’t by a newspaper or stick of gum at the airport from anyone but a Somali...
Nah, man. Don’t hate the funny.
As this whole cabal thing slides down the hill, there will be hijinx. Blooper reel caliber.
Yep, same here.
Buh-bye MN, you’re way to messed up.
WHAT! WHAT!???? Ping..
How is it that Muslims can go through airport security with a million in cash and they get passed right on through but anyone else trying to travel with $4,000 or more in cash can expect to have it seized?
Or besides Jesse Ventura?
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Don't forget this terrorist.
Coleman didn’t lose to Franken. At least not in a fair election. Coleman lost when Franken went to court and they accepted his trunk-load of “forgotten” ballots.
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