Minnesota’s Somali scams get worse by the day — but who will pay? |
Government at all levels is basically broke, especially in blue states.
Government leaders’ chief solution to this poverty seems generally to involve extracting more money from the citizenry.
But where does the money they’ve already extracted go?
Based on what’s turning up in Minnesota, much of it is going to political cronies — who then recycle cash back to the same politicians who got it for them.
Last week independent journalist Nick Shirley did what any mainstream journalist could have done, but didn’t.
He found a list of Somali-run “day care” institutions funded by the state, then visited them to see what kind of care they were offering.
The answer is, the kind with no actual kids.
In all, Shirley identified approximately $110 million worth of fraud.
These institutions were supposedly visited by state inspectors — who sometimes noted violations, but didn’t note that the whole thing was a scam. (One of these “educational” facilities even misspelled “learning” on its signage.)
Shirley’s massively viral video — with 116 million views and counting — inspired others to dig into political donation records.
Sure enough, recipients of the daycare funding were making big donations to, you guessed it, Democratic politicians.
First to come under scrutiny is Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who represents the district where many of the scams — which may have siphoned off a staggering $9 billion — are........