I have read that in the past that Minnesota Somalis are expert at bilking the child care system. They would set up child care businesses and then submit claims for “ghost” children of supposedly low income mothers.
Also, middle easterners smuggle cigarettes from Missouri to Chicago or NYC, profiting from the significant difference in tax rates.
I have read that in the past that Minnesota Somalis are expert at bilking the child care system. They would set up child care businesses and then submit claims for “ghost” children of supposedly low income mothers.
You have to know they’re getting a lot of help organizing these scams from one of their own in the Congress.
The cigarette smuggling isn’t on the same level as the false welfare claims. The false welfare actually steals money that was lawfully extorted from the taxpayers. The cigarette smuggling is simply a creative way of tax avoidance that is following a long tradition of not giving greedy city governments any extra pelf. I remember when I was in high school* seeing in the newspaper how they caught a load of cigarettes destined for NYC in the middle of a bundle of hollowed out 2x4s. Actually multiple bundles on a semi and I wondered how they ever caught them. Now it’s obvious someone ratted them out.
*a very long time ago