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Convicted sex offender from Kenya avoids deportation, lands state job (Welcome to Tim Walz's Minnesota)
Alpha News ^ | 06/30/2025 | Jenna Gloeb

Posted on 06/30/2025 6:20:41 PM PDT by Drew68

A Kenyan national convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman in Minnesota wasn’t deported after his prison sentence — he was promoted.

Wilson Tindi holds a director position at the Minnesota Department of Education, where he audits taxpayer spending and oversees internal accountability.

Court records show Tindi was convicted in 2016 of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct after breaking into a woman’s home and assaulting her in bed where she slept. He pleaded guilty to the sex assault charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping a first-degree burglary charge.

Tindi was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to register as a predatory offender. His sentence was stayed for five years, but he was also sentenced to 210 days in the workhouse, records show.

However, despite the felony conviction and offender status, Tindi serves as Director of Internal Audit and Advisory Services at MDE, according to public records and his LinkedIn profile.

After Alpha News reached out to MDE for comment, Tindi’s bio was removed from the agency’s website.

A former prosecutor with direct knowledge of Tindi’s case told Alpha News they were disturbed to learn he now holds a leadership role in state government.

“I don’t know how he would have passed a background check,” the attorney said. “He’s a felon and a registered sex offender—how is he employed?”

The attorney said that in addition to the 2016 conviction, Tindi was also accused of a similar crime in 2012, as court documents state. Although the case was never charged, prosecutors filed a Spreigl notice—a legal move to introduce evidence of prior misconduct—citing the 2012 allegation as evidence of a disturbing pattern.

“He is dangerous,” the attorney said. “He has no business being paid out of our taxpayer dollars and should be back with ICE.”

Records show Tindi was taken into ICE custody in August 2016 as the U.S. government sought to deport him to his native Kenya.

In 2016, an immigration judge ordered his removal based on the felony sex crime conviction. The decision was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals but stayed by an appeals court.

Tindi filed a federal habeas corpus petition, arguing that his detention had become unconstitutional because it dragged on too long without actual deportation.

A federal judge agreed, writing that Tindi’s continued detention no longer “serve[d] the purpose of preventing deportable criminal aliens from fleeing prior to or during their removal proceedings.”

After 18 months in ICE custody, Tindi was ordered released in February 2018.

In May, Tindi filed a petition for post-conviction relief, asking a Hennepin County judge to vacate his guilty plea. He claims his defense attorney failed to properly warn him that the conviction would have devastating consequences for his immigration status. He says he is a lawful permanent resident.

In the petition, Tindi says he would never have pleaded guilty if he had known it would make him permanently inadmissible under federal law—effectively banning him from ever reentering the U.S. if he left.

But then in June, Tindi filed a second motion, this time asking the court to withdraw his request to overturn the conviction, admitting the odds of success were slim under current state law. He reserved the right to try again in the future.

Adding to the list of legal troubles is Tindi’s recent DWI arrest.

Neither MDE nor Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s returned requests for comment.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: enablor; kenyan; predator; predatorenablor; tampontim; walz

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Wilson Tindi. Illegal immigrant, rapist, drunk driver, and recently promoted to director at the Minnesota Department of Education.


1 posted on 06/30/2025 6:20:41 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Walz probably wishes he were the victim. I hope he doesn’t whip my azz for that!


2 posted on 06/30/2025 6:22:36 PM PDT by cdcdawg (The Left should cry harder.)
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To: Drew68

People of Minnesota are OK with it, I guess.

I mean, didn’t they elect Jesse Ventura and Al Franken to high positions of power?


3 posted on 06/30/2025 6:23:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Drew68

Paging Tom Homan.


4 posted on 06/30/2025 6:23:38 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Drew68

He pled guilty to a sex offense rather than plead guilty to a burglary offense?


5 posted on 06/30/2025 6:24:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Drew68

Paging Noem, Homan, Bondi. Get this POS outta here!


6 posted on 06/30/2025 6:24:40 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Drew68

Paging Tom Holman. How on earth can he have anything to do with education. More leftist insanity.


7 posted on 06/30/2025 6:24:47 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 )
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To: Steely Tom

“””People of Minnesota are OK with it, I guess.”””

Nope. Minnesotans hate it. This guy is in the Occupied Territory of Minnepolistan.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 6:25:14 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Drew68

The Feds have a lot of work to do in Minnesota. Not having a criminal record is apparently a strike against you if you’re searching for a job in that state.


9 posted on 06/30/2025 6:26:52 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Drew68

In 2016, an immigration judge ordered his removal based on the felony sex crime conviction. The decision was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals but stayed by an appeals court.

Tindi filed a federal habeas corpus petition, arguing that his detention had become unconstitutional because it dragged on too long without actual deportation.

A federal judge agreed, writing that Tindi’s continued detention no longer “serve[d] the purpose of preventing deportable criminal aliens from fleeing prior to or during their removal proceedings.”


detention doesn’t serve the purpose of preventing fleeing.

pretzel logic.


10 posted on 06/30/2025 6:27:05 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Drew68

All foisted onto America by the communist RAT party; a party that should be outlawed and/or outright banned within the confines of the USA.


11 posted on 06/30/2025 6:28:33 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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https://education.mn.gov/MDE/about/cmsh/directors/PROD086192

he is now a website error....................


12 posted on 06/30/2025 6:30:50 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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he is now a website error....................

Probably just hiding him until this blows over.

13 posted on 06/30/2025 6:32:50 PM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/minnesota/mndce/0:2017cv03663/167609/25/0.pdf

quite an interesting history.


14 posted on 06/30/2025 6:33:56 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Drew68

I bet he has an MD, PhD, MBA, CPA, and PE also.

Ever notice how MOST of those clowns with their African education can’t answer the most basic technical questions?

But don’t say anything!

That’ll make you a racist.


15 posted on 06/30/2025 6:37:09 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Drew68

The boy is still waiting for his reparations check although he’s never picked cotton.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 6:38:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: cdcdawg

Looks like Tiny Timmy Tampon has himself a new boyfriend.


17 posted on 06/30/2025 6:39:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Correction! America is a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS! All of mine came here legally. No free stuff.)
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To: Drew68

All leftists are fine with illegal aliens committing murder and rape, as long as they continue to vote Democrat of course


18 posted on 06/30/2025 6:42:37 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Ever notice how MOST of those clowns with their African education can’t answer the most basic technical questions?

And where starting to see more and more of them in the medical professions.

"Where did you get your medical degree from?"

"The Congo School of Doctoring. It's a very good school! One of the best! Also have law degree and pilot license from same school!"

19 posted on 06/30/2025 6:43:27 PM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: Drew68
This definitely comes under the definition of things that make you go...


20 posted on 06/30/2025 6:43:45 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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