Posted on 09/19/2024 5:09:56 AM PDT by george76
1 in 3 Minneapolis Public Housing residents are Somalis...
Glass ceilings get broken, then wallets get stolen. Only in America? No. Only in Gov. Walz’s Minnesota.
But first, let’s pause to celebrate the incredible historic moment of the first Somali refugee to run a public housing agency.
Sharmarke Issa was confirmed by the Minneapolis City Council to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners.
“Having grown up in in Minneapolis public housing after coming to our city as a refugee, Sharmarke’s story of success highlights public housing as vital asset in Minneapolis,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “Sharmarke’s life experience and background in urban planning are especially important to MPHA’s mission. At a time when the federal government continues to shortchange housing funding, he will be a skilled steward of our public housing infrastructure who understands and centers the needs of residents.”
Approximately one-third of Minneapolis Public Housing residents are members of the East-African community.
One third. 1 in 3 are Somalis. Just one of those little factoids about diversity being our strength. Kinda like Issa’s stewardship.
An Edina man who chaired the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal wire fraud charges for his role in the Feeding Our Future nutrition program fraud scheme.
That was a $250 million social welfare fraud to help the Somali community.
Sharmarke Issa, 42, admitted to running entities that laundered federal funding for the scheme, including Wacan Restaurant LLC and a nonprofit called Minnesota’s Somali Community.
Issa was responsible for $7.6 million of the $50 million in fraud scheme money that the federal government says it lost,
Issa claimed to serve 2.3 million meals to children at his food sites. He admitted that some of the fraud scheme money instead went to properties he purchased in Edina, Minneapolis and elsewhere.
Everyone is now pretending to be shocked and outraged at water being wet.
When Sharmarke’s name first surfaced in 2022 as part of the case, Frey said the allegations against him were “appalling” and “run counter to the values that we are entrusted to uphold in the City of Minneapolis.”
Forget it Jake, it’s Somalitown.
May Sharmarke Issa get free public housing for a long time. In prison.
“I can resist anything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde.
btt
Just am amazed that they don’t all want to go back to SOMALI with AOC and support her and make her President of that country. Take their skills, take their assets and change Africa.. with their message and model.
bkmk
I think you mean Ilhan Omar. AOC is Puerto Rican I think.
Issa was responsible for $7.6 million of the $50 million and claimed to serve 2.3 million meals to children
Are there that many fake Somali kids in MN? He got sloppy.
One thing about “refugees” that makes them look very smart. When it comes to money, America is a bunch of dumbasses. If you want to get rich fast, “migrate” to America. They’re throwing away money there.
Sammies are the idiots that loved to set American military people on fire and then drag them through their craphole streets before hanging them from bridges. The damn government still let the bass turds “migrate” here from Somalia to wait for their “reparations” checks from whitey.
“One neighborhood in Minneapolis called Cedar Riverside has been nicknamed “Little Mogadishu” due to the area’s large concentration of Somali immigrants; Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia. The neighborhood saw a 56% increase in violent crime between 2010 and 2018, according to the Star Tribune.”
They may be in Minneapolis now, but Mogadishu is still in them.
There is literally a convenience store in St. Cloud named “Little Mogadishu”.
“Issa claimed to serve 2.3 million meals to children at his food sites.”
Multiple frauds, all based on printed, fiat, Federal Reserve money
I welcome their culture. It is much like our Washington culture. It helps so many. But we need more money.
It doesn’t take many of these turd world scum to demographically change an American region in one generation. They don’t even need a plurality. The people of Minneapolis simply gave up. I’ll never forget how the skinnies dragged dead American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu and dumped their remains in trash bags. Certainly, nobody in their right mind would import these type. Ultimately, the American voter through ignorance, apathy and idiocy is our down fall. If Harris is selected I will shrug.
Reminds me of that Somali police officer in Minneapolis - and the great fanfare when he was hired.
He’s the same one that shot and killed a woman who was trying to report a rape.
“On July 15, 2017, Justine Damond was fatally shot by 31-year-old Somali-American Minneapolis Police Department officer Mohamed Noor after she had called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman in an alley behind her house.
Damond’s family brought a civil lawsuit against the City of Minneapolis alleging violation of Damond’s civil rights, which the city settled for US$20 million in 2019.”
“One neighborhood in Minneapolis called Cedar Riverside has been nicknamed “Little Mogadishu” due to the area’s large concentration of Somali immigrants;...”
I lived in a dorm on the West Bank campus of the U back in the early 80’s. Back then, the Cedar-Riverside area was a combination of college students, 1960’s relics and some U employees. It was liberal - coffee shops, co-ops, small restaurants etc. But it was livable and safe.
There’s no way in hell I’d walk around down there now. The last time I was down that way, I drove on Cedar Avenue. The streets were dirty, the storefronts looked third world and if i didn’t know I was in the US, I might have thought I was in a third world country.
For anyone out there who doesn’t believe that Somalis are a source of increased crime, I dare them to go to the Hennepin County Jail’s inmate roster on the Web.
My son in law worked for the TSA at the Minneapolis airport. He witnessed Somalis bring as much as $100,00+ in cash in their carry on bags with one way tickets to Somalia. Apparently it is legal to take large amounts of cash out of the country if it is declared. However, if I attempted to take $100,000 in cash out of the country in my carry on bag, Im certain I would have a visit with both the FBI and IRS before I got on the plane.
The Bush Family destroyed MN.
Every time I go back, Minneapolis goes further down the toilet.
Obama, Biden and Harris destroyed the rest of the USA.
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