South Dakota: Newspaper failed to report, then hid sex offender’s identity as Somali ‘refugee’

A South Dakota newspaper that failed to report on the case of a Somali man convicted of trying to molest a severely handicapped woman, changed gears Wednesday after being outed by WND and decided to publish a story about the crime.

The story ran on page three of the Aberdeen American News under the headline “Sentencing later this month for a man convicted of attempted sexual contact.”

The convicted sex criminal, 39-year-old Liban Mohamed, was a recently arrived refugee brought to the state from Somalia at the invitation of the U.S. government. He had been in the country only about a week and in Aberdeen only one day when he wandered up to a group home and tried to molest a 31-year-old mentally handicapped woman who was sitting outside the facility.

Mohamed, freshly arrived in the U.S. just days prior, wandered more than a mile from his hotel on foot and preyed upon a mentally handicapped woman at the Aspire Inc. residential care facility, which houses about 150 handicapped people. His victim was left unattended for only minutes. When a caregiver returned, she caught him with his hand between the disabled woman’s legs, reaching toward her private parts.

AAN’s belated story also neglected to mention that Mohamed had been brought to Aberdeen to work in the local meatpacking plant, DemKota Ranch, which has become a magnet for cheap refugee labor.

WND contacted AAN Executive Editor J.J. Perry and asked why he omitted the information about Mohamed being a refugee.

“Because I don’t know that it was a fact he was a refugee. We weren’t there [at the trial],” Perry said, after which he was reminded that the state’s attorney, Christopher White, confirmed for WND that Mohamed was a refugee and that this information was offered by Mohamed’s own defense attorney at trial. It was part of the court record in the defense attorney’s opening statement.

Perry indicated to WND the previous day that his paper’s failure to report the story initially was not intentional.

WND’s calls to Aberdeen Police Chief David McNeil were not returned Wednesday seeking comment on whether his agency covered up the crime when it happened on July 30, 2016. Mohamed was indicted Aug. 15 and went to trial on Dec. 20 just a few days before Christmas.

Neither McNeil’s department nor the local sheriff’s office has provided a mugshot of the convicted sex offender. South Dakota is one of the few states where mugshots of convicted criminals are not considered public record.

Lutheran Social Services South Dakota, a federal contractor, is responsible for resettling most of the refugees sent to the state but has not addressed how it could leave a man from Somalia, in the country for only a week, on his own to wander the streets looking for a vulnerable female.

Meanwhile, a citizens group tells WND they met with South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley on Oct. 3 at the state Capitol in Pierre to discuss their concerns about refugee resettlement and its impact on safety.

The meeting was affable with the approximately 10 citizens sharing concerns about refugees who might put the safety of their communities at risk.

The meeting included residents from Rapid City who were looking for him to do something to stop the secondary migration of refugees to their town.

“A Huron girl there was almost in tears she was so fearful of what could happen” if an unvetted or unvettable refugee were to slip through the cracks, one resident who was present at the meeting told WND.

But Jackley quickly turned the tables, asking pointed questions of the concerned citizens.

“If you guys know of anything, can cite anything [negative] that’s happening in your communities, then please tell me,” he reportedly said.

“He wouldn’t give the concerned people the answers they were looking for,” said one person present at the meeting. “I watched him and was thinking what are you doing? It was more like dodge ball and ‘what do you know?’”

He told the group refugee resettlement was a federal issue and “his hands were tied,” one participant of the meeting said. “What’s upsetting is, he already knew, he would have known that this crime had happened in Aberdeen.

“We were duped. Looking back, I really think we were afforded the meeting with him only because he was trying to figure out if we knew,” the activist said.

“What made me upset when I read the WND article on Aberdeen is that on Oct. 3 we had an opportunity for our attorney general to say something to these people, to tell them the truth, ‘You know you may be right, some could slip through the cracks and commit heinous crimes.’

“Lutheran Social Services takes this federal money but aren’t always doing their job,” the activist continued. “But instead Marty Jackley said, ‘Oh, we can’t do anything, our hands are tied.’ We now know there had been something heinous that had already happened in Aberdeen.”

The Washington Examiner reports. "Obama allows new voters to pour into the US from some 134 countries...many of them terror-related.

The effort is headed by the National Partnership for New Americans, a Washington-based coalition of immigrant-rights groups along with the Service Employees International Union and other pro-Democratic organizations, the Examiner reports.

Their target is to increase the number of naturalization applications to U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (US CIS) from about 650,000 to 1 million.

US CIS is headed by Obama's hand-picked henchman---Leon Rodriguez---who has ties to open borders groups across the country

The partnership helped 12,781 legal permanent residents apply for naturalization in March and April, executive director Joshua Hoyt said. He added that the group has reached out to as many as 500,000 people.

The US govt agency CIS is aiding the effort by waiving fees to lower-income immigrants — but the process takes five months to complete, which could make it too late for immigrants to vote in November....

"The events that these organizations are holding are legitimately nonpartisan events," Cong Gutierrez said. "But there is something going on here and the way Donald Trump and other Republicans have been talking about immigrants and refugees — and Latinos and Asians and Muslims — is frankly scaring people into coming forward and becoming citizens." (Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...

NOTE: The US Dept of HHS provides stipends for these foreigners---reportedly they get some thirty thousand of your tax dollars just by entering our country.

The Syrian/Somali refugees flooding in will receive an initial stipend from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pres Trump needs to cut these tax dollars off ASAP.

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Obama ignored the concerns of state governors and began delivering violent Third World malcontents, en masse to almost every state, a steady stream of Somali, Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi and Burmese Muslims.....not to mention the Central America crowd rife with communicable diseases.

All of them are sucking tax dollars off the backs of taxpayers, all of them voting for Hillary (whether they know it or not).

FREEPER ACTION--CONTACT---https://tips.fbi.gov

<><> Taxpayers demand investigations.

<><> Supboena USCIS and DHS official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.

<><> Taxpayers demand to know if govt factorum Leon Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, (1) are governments.

<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.

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ACTION NOW Contact your Representative and Senators
Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

FIRE DHS SECY JEH JOHNSON---failure to protect ntl security
FIRE LEON RODRIGUEZ USCIS head---mismanaging visa enforcement

2016

ACTION NOW Contact your Representative
Capitol Switchboard 1- 866 -220-0044

Contact President-Elect Trump's web site. www.greatagain.gov.

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SUBJECT: Collusion, conspiracy, bribery
IN RE: financial irregularities
REFERENCE: financial fraud, govt fraud, falsified documents, wire transfers, accounting fraud, etc.

NARRATIVE Taxpayers demand to know the scope and dimension of multiple conspiracies by Lutheran Family Services (LFS), to collude in sub rosa deals to personally profit and/or to facilitate terrorism schemes using public/govt monies.

OF INTEREST TO LAW ENFORCEMENT The FBI should interrogate LFS-connected individuals for evidence of multiple schemes to falsify official documents to further fraudulent schemes. The FBI should investigate any and all official documents SPLC submitted to the courts.

Crimes might include---conspiracy, collusion, falsifying official documents (a felony), financial fraud, govt fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, extortion, theft, misuse of tax-paid facilities, and financing terrorism.

Examine tax returns with a fine-tooth comb.....especially entries for "interest income."

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The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how LFS govt monies changed hands; to determine the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals, who might be personally profiting and if financing terrorism is being facilitated.

<><> L/E needs to examine LFS bank accounts.

<><> Joint SPLC bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing migrants from terrorist countries.

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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes and financing terrorism. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of LFS checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies SPLC paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activites: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets.

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