Posted on 05/10/2019 11:18:40 AM PDT by jazusamo
Same here...
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.
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 falsely signed up low income Somali Muslim 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 guard against these Somali migrant crooks.
“members of Congress“ .eq. “career politician”
So, unless you have the name of a freshman or a first-termer...
... contradiction.
It’s six years off, but right now, I like Pence.
That’s MHO.
Why are these people not deported already??? Any immigrant caught defrauding our government should be jailed then immediately deported with ALL of their family members, including kids born here NO ANCHOR BABY exclusions!!!
I think all three of the jokers should be removed from the House of Representatives!!! Plus NP and MW oh and Nadler, the other liar AS..
I trust our President, our vice president and now our attorney general to do the right thing for the American people. I don’t agree with them on all matters but I think they are listening and trying to do right by our country.
I read but hardly ever post on Twitter. But they have some great AOC and crazy Bernie parody accounts running which attack her/him with humor; show them to be the self-serving, socialist and disingenuous power grabbers that they are. I would rather laugh at these a#ses than needlessly fret and get worked up about them. While I am laughing conservatives within the administration are dealing with them, doing the people’s work.
You can bet your bottom bippy that AOC, Omar and Talib are all under FBI surveillance.
Pence knows something we do not about Omar, or he would not have gone public to get rid of her.
Amen.
She has no business being in these United States.
She has no business being a representative!
This Muslim Hag should be kicked completely out of the country..She is so dangerous for this country but Pelosi keeps letting her get awaywith all the anti American speeches..
She was chosen by leftard anti-American Somali nitwits. She is an anti-American Somali nitwit. It’s the People’s House, and they got what they wanted in Minnesota. Woe to the sane districts.
Yes agree.
Thank You VP Pence!
She’s horrible!
Well the NYT has been a lot more open about being anti-Semitic as of late.
I agree with that.
They bring these enemies in amongst us, and wonder why we have no faith in them either.
You know, we can blame the people there, but if our Leftards in Congress made it possible for these folks to come here en mass, it’s their fault.
We need a massive clean sweep of Congress.
That demonratcommiescumbagterroristchildmolestinghag needs to be removed from the US House of Representatives and AMERICA.
Makes Me SICK SICK SICK !!!.
Bad that she EVEN got there.
You know what, you gotta be a real POS to vote dem.
And that includes some generous and nice people I know.
But if you vote for a party that is antisemitic, appoints traitors to important committees, tells young boys it’s ok to get your #### chopped off and gets its rocks off on abortions, then you’re a POS.
Why is this terrorist still there,she should have never been elected in the first place..Nancy Pelosi is doing nothing about her or the other moron..
I think old Nancy is involved in some way with all these terrorist and illegals crossing the border.Is that what is making her and her husband so rich ..The cartel is paying off the democrats to let these people enter..
why isn’t she and her brother deported or in prison for immigration fraud and unlawful marriage.
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