Posted on 06/07/2024 6:37:53 PM PDT by bitt
A Minnesota jury found 5 of the 7 Somali defendants guilty of stealing millions of dollars in Covid funds intended to feed children.
70 members of the Somali community in Minnesota stole about $250 million in Covid funds. The seven defendants on trial related to the scheme were accused of stealing more than $40 million in taxpayer money.
Millions of dollars went overseas to Somalia. 80% of the stolen Covid money was never recovered.
“The verdict confirms what we’ve known all along, which is that defendants falsified documents, they lied and they fraudulently claimed to be feeding millions of meals to children in Minnesota during COVID,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said. “The defendants took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the state of Minnesota and to steal tens of millions of dollars.”
The guilty verdict comes after a juror was offered a bag of cash to vote to acquit. A Somali woman showed up at one of the juror’s homes with $120,000 in cash. The juror was ultimately dismissed. The FBI is still investigating the bribe.
Yes, sentenced to time served.
Deport
Amerika’s extreme far left “strength” strikes again. Mohamed Farrah Skyhook Aidid’s boyz.
Aren’t you happy these fuzzy muzzies were given “assylum” by their Democrat massas?
Didn’t they used to say that about the Jew, Catholics, Irish and Italians?
Sounds like a good verdict
They were arriving in 2017-2019 too.
Yeah, but they were just getting their reparations a little early, right?
Any type of torture penalty would end up being used on you, so... Stop it.
Sure deport them... After they do about 30 years of hard labor in the slammer.
Look up Samalis and Medicaid fraud
I wonder if the hijab lady is the precise one with the butterfly bags.
In other news, Fani Willis spent nearly a million in Covid funds on boyfriend lawyer who turned it around and took her on some lavish trips.
They could not have done any of this without the help of the democrat party. Has any of them been charged?
After more audits, that number came down into the $300 million range.
Same criminal plan - most of the money went to Africa. I do not recall which ethnic groups, but we definitely have a lot of Somalis.
Cannot help but wonder if the Biden Crime Family and the Democratic Party were involved.
Billions of Covid dollars still missing nation wide, and the GOP in Washington state never even mentions the issue.
More wonderful criminal imports dumped on America, all directed and produced by those running the U.S. Government. Their America last policies are sabotage.
bias thru and thru...they would not dare question the validity of black owned/run entities you know because it would be racist and so that’s why the taxpayers are defrauded of millions....
Brought to you by GWB.
This is just the surface of the corruption that is now everywhere in MN.
Friends in Lino Lakes tell me there is a building plan for a Muslim only community for 1000 homes near their place.
I’d bet it is going to have a Minaret and 3x daily call to prayer.
Anyone who shows up for the building review is called a racist.
“We should have a law that allows a torture penalty for such crimes.”
Send them to Gitmo for a nice long sentence and then back to their home countries.
P C till it hurts!!!
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