Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and journalist Nick Shirley blew the lid open on how fraudsters in Minnesota used taxpayer funds to support a vicious radical terrorist group in Somalia.
Johnson questioned Shirley during a Wednesday Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) hearing on government fraud.
“I mean, $700 million in cash flowing out of the Minneapolis airport back to, you know, countries in Africa,” Johnson said. “Have either of you gentlemen kind of investigated the foreign sourcing or an organization of a lot of this fraud? I mean, we’re opening up to foreign governments to fund their own operations.”
Shirley responded by saying “it’s been proven that a lot of the money in suitcases that left Minnesota went back into the hands of people inside Somalia.”
He further explained that in New York, daycare fraud is so rampant that at many facilities, nobody “actually knows who the owner is.”
When the massive fraud issue in Minnesota was revealed last year, it also became apparent that not all of the fraudsters were perpetrating their schemes for personal reason. Many sent the money they defrauded from government welfare programs to support Al-Shabaab, one of the most notorious radical Islamic terrorist groups on the African continent. In fact, one confidential source said, “The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.”