Posted on 08/27/2015 3:51:42 PM PDT by Liz
Photo Credit: City of Eden Prairie Khadra Hirsi, Photo Credit: City of Eden Prairie
Since the Minnesota Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) fully-staffed their new child care fraud investigative unit in the spring of 2014, they’ve worked with the FBI to shutter daycare centers around the state. Of the cases that have hit the news since then, all have involved Somali-run businesses.
Khadra Abdisafad Hirsi, 47, was the director and co-owner of Ace Daycare Center in Eden Prairie. In February, Hirsi pleaded guilty to knowingly submitting fraudulent claims to the state of Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program. From November of 2011-May of 2013, Hrisi inflated the number of children using her daycare’s services and fraudulently obtained $300,000 in payments from the state of Minnesota and the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services. Earlier this month Hirsi was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution.
Hirsi, who also goes by the name of Khadra Duale, was employed by the City of Eden Prairie as a part-time community services technician, also known as the immigrant liaison, from October 2003-September 2011, she was also part-time staff at the Eden Prairie community center. Hirsi was paid $284,944 in salary and $35,806 in health and dental benefits by the city during that time. She co-owned the Ace Daycare in Eden Prairie with her husband Mohamed F. Arab, although there were no charges against him. The Eden Prairie news called Hirsi and her husband “leaders in the Somali community” in a 2009 video interview featuring the couple. They filed for bankruptcy this summer according to public records.
The Ace Daycare building was leased to to Hirsi by the city of Eden Prairie starting in September 2010, while she was still working for the city. The lease was transferred in October of 2013 to Roda Farrah Moahmed, owner of Light House Daycare. In March of 2015, the city renewed the lease to Lighthouse which will run through October 2020. Lighthouse is licensed with the state of Minnesota, and was fined $400 in March of this year by the state for failing to submit background studies for multiple staff members
Deqo daycare center, which had three locations in Apple Valley, St. Paul, and Minneapolis was shut down in 2013 due to licensing violations and prosecutors charged husband and wife Ahmed Aden Mohamed and Yasmin Abdulle Ali for bilking the state out of nearly $3.7 million, $3.1 million of which was collected from April 2012-January 2013. The duo had recruited more than 100 parents to enroll their own children in the program.
Salama Child Care Center in Minneapolis was raided in May of this year by the FBI and state agents. Salama is run by Ardo Diriye whose daughter Farah Adid is the Director of Operations and is “also licensed to provide standardized day care and preschool curriculum.” Per KSTP News, the search warrant indicated that there was a large discrepancy between the number of children attending and the number receiving state funds. The investigation is ongoing and includes suspicion of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and theft of public money.
Yasmin Muhina Salim, owner of Kind Heart Day Care Center in Mankato, was arrested in June of 2014 for defrauding the state for $12,000 over a three month period.
DHS’s Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report for 2014 stated that “The OIG is seriously concerned about a pattern of child care fraud activities that involves deception and exploitation. It begins with recruiting parents as child care center employees with the condition that they enroll their children in a child care assistance program (CCAP) to ensure public funds revenue for the business; the scheme ends with exploiting four sets of victims: the children, parents, those on the Child Care Assistance Program waiting list and taxpayers.”
The prevalence of Somali-run daycare providers being found guilty of fraud by the new investigative unit may be a coincidence. Ongoing investigations by the child care investigative unit are not public information. The $4 million + in fraud that’s been discovered so far represents just 1% of the estimated $418 million in child care payments made by the state in 2014-2015.
NOTE: Sub-Sahara Africans are streaming into the US at an alarming rate-—calculatedly being located in states to give Dems a voting bloc. All of it being subsidized by struggling US taxpayers.
BGRND Hillary’s top aides-—Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills-—used their privileged tax-paid positions at the State Dept to cash-in-—they romped all over the State Dept looking for money-making opportunities .....like it was their private playground.
Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon details how Cheryl Mills, another one of Hillary Clinton’s longtime underlings, apparently collected a paycheck from New York University at the same time she was serving as Chief of Staff of the State Department.
According to the article: After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses.
The UAE is a major funder of the Clinton Foundation, on whose board Mills sat. The article quotes NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm:
“Federal of conflict interest statutes are very strict, and they want to ensure that federal employees, especially very senior special employees like Cheryl Mills, do not have any conflicts of interest in any matter that they have a hand in,” said Boehm. “Given her position, the dual position of counselor and chief of staff, presumably she would have access to almost any decision of importance that came out of the State Department.”
UPDATE—
<><> Mills rejoined the board of the Clinton Foundation in 2013, after Hillary exited State.
<><> Mills currently runs the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm that focuses on dirt-poor Sub-Saharan Africa.
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<><> (A) TAXPAYERS DEMAND TO KNOW HOW MANY GOVT PAYCHECKS MILLS WAS POCKETING
<><> IS CHERYL MILLS STILL ON THE PAYROLL COLLECTING US GOVT PAYCHECKS (an old bureaucratic trick)?
<><> Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Cheryl Mill’s BlackIvy Group tax monies?
<><> did any of the Sub-Sahara groups receive foreign aid grants from Hillary’s State dept?
<><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed below donate to the Clinton Foundation
<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation?
<><> Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ BlackIvy Group in sub-Sahara projects?
SUB SAHARAN AFRICA—— African Union Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (DRC-Kinshasa) Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia.
The ignorant Somalis are coached well——they quickly get on the gravy train....bilking taxpayers is sport for these lowlifes.
Wonder how much they’re wire-transferring back to their dirt-poor huts.
ping
...Akoa’s blood-splattered Bible was found lying next to his head...the victim of a savage attack that took place over several hours...He had been beaten and kicked in the head, and bashed in the head with a piece of furniture in an assault that continued relentlessly for hours, police said in the arrest affidavit.
....mention of their national origin has not even been mentioned in the local media....Apparently it’s a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with regard to Somali refugees in Maine,.... 1,379 Somali refugees to Maine with 1,010 of them going to Portland, ...........
....Dozens of other Somalis have been arrested on terrorism-related charges, yet the U.S. State Department continues to import Somali refugees into the U.S. at a rate of 600 to 800 per month. Hundreds more are now coming from the jihadist capital of the world, Syria, even as persecuted Christians from that country are ignored by the Obama administration.
Christian Fred Akoa brutally beat for hours and murdered....
Mohamed Mohamud, one of three suspects charged in the killing of Freddy Akoa in Portland, Maine.
Osman Sheikh Said, 31, a Somali refugee who was resettled in Maine, is one of three suspects charged with the murder of 49-year-old Freddy Akoa.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/slain-christians-head-allegedly-bashed-by-muslim-refugees/
Yeah. The chaos is always not far behind them. Soon as they get settled in...time to start the party.
As for the scams...normal biz from back home. They can’t believe anyone is stupid enough to trust them.
Sorry Megan, we can no longer take everyone who claim being wronged so the folks who feel sorry for them can feel better. Half of these cases are total fraud. This is no secret.
Lots of big policy changes in the future.
Note the perpetrator was working. 6 figure government job. Deportation following a lengthy prison term would be appropriate
Somali pirates in Minnesota?
Another “skinny” (although the women generally tend to be anything but) bringing third-world corruption to the Bleedin’ Prairie. And for this massive grand theft by fraud? One year and a day. And an order to pay restitution she’s already spent. Or sent back to Somalia to buy guns for her brothers.
And in my home town they plan to bring in several hundred more Somali refugees, despite the fact that the local are not in favor of continued immigration of Muslims into our community.
Actually, they’re not much different from Scandanavian socialists.
On my return flight from MSP to ATL about 5 years ago, the TSA agent at screening was a woman wearing a headscarf. The woman in front of me was in full Hijab with 3 teenage boys. Of course I was picked by this TSA agent for additional screening.
Should have said the girl in front of me was in a burka.
“Why are Muslim Somalis in Minnesota?”
Catholic Charities
Lutheran Social Services
ELCA
“Why are Muslim Somalis in Minnesota?”Catholic Charities
Lutheran Social Services
ELCA
And the Obama administration.
Why the hell is the government paying for daycare?
Actually, this all came abut before the current administration.
The Minnesota Somalis (I wish that were an oxymoron) very quickly figured out two things: how to game the system, and how to play the victim. They even have their own local Al Sharpton wannabe. And as most Freepers know, this state is filled to the rafters with dumb-ass enablers!
Thanks for the ping.
Have you noticed we are NOT bringing in ANY of the Christian refugee?
That’s because the UN chooses who gets to come to the US as a refugee. The people they’re resettling here are primarily Muslims who hate us and hate our culture.
In the meantime Christians are hiding in caves, being beheaded, and their children sold off into slavery.,
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