$1 million a day: TSA flags suspicious cash outflow at Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport

Hans Blaster said:

Don't care. Just because built a website and publishes some "normal" articles doesn't impact his personal history of misinformation. John Solomon is not to be trusted.

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Seems as if that's more of black eye on the legacy media for refusing to cover some of these stories.

It would appear some local affiliates of the mainstream sources have been aware of this for 7 years.

From May 2018:
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.

Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.

The national, go-to expert on what is behind these mysterious money transfers is Glen Kerns.

“What we were interested in is where it was going,” Kerns said.

He is a former Seattle police detective who spent 15 years on the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, until his retirement.

Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.

“It’s an outright crime, it’s unbelievable,” he said.

As Kerns dug deeper, he found that some of the individuals who were sending out tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments happened to be on government assistance in this country.

How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home?

“We had sources that told us, 'It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,'” said Kerns.


....but now they don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.


Seems as if the the findings were pretty similar back then as to what's being asserted now.

Millions of dollars of childcare assistance dollars, being pooled, and send in bags of cash back to Somalia (by way of Hawala transfers out of Dubai) with a prominent terrorist group taking a cut...with large sums being the result of abuse of childcare state programs.


So if people don't want to take Nick Shirley's video montage at face value, that's fine...I get it.

But roughly the same thing was espoused 7 years ago by a veteran detective who spent 15 years on the FBI joint taskforce.

ThatRobGuy said:

What are you constituting as "smearing"?

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I'm not "constituting" [huh??] anything.

ThatRobGuy said:

If others pointing out that specific organized crime rings/affiliates have a high associative overlap with certain groups/locales is considered "smearing", then unfortunately no, there's not going to be a great way to discuss the problem that doesn't perhaps cast a negative light.

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So your position seems to be that the Somali community is responsible for all or most of the apparently legally documented money going through the Minneapolis airport?

ThatRobGuy said:

It would've been like saying back in the "troubles" in Northern Ireland--
"Look, we need to talk about the IRA's activities, and investigate...sure, but can we do it in a way that we make sure it doesn't make Irish Catholics in that area or the city Belfast as a whole look bad?"

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We are presuming that this can't be discussed factually, without disparagement then?

ThatRobGuy said:

And that challenge becomes even more difficult when the community in question is somewhat insular and city leadership seems to be keen on taking their side.

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Eh?

ThatRobGuy said:

Or perhaps a better domestic example would be the insular communities in New York City.

There have certainly been a lot of issues (ranging from human rights violations, to financial, etc...) in those.

Is there a way to discuss that issue openly and honestly without someone getting the impression that Hasidic Jews are being smeared?
(given that the behaviors in question are a direct offshoot of the prevailing religious ideology of said insular community)

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I would certainly hope so. There are different Hasidim (Satmar, Lubavitch) communities with various issues. I really don't know what you have in mind that couldn't be discussed without smearing.

DaisyDay said:

I would certainly hope so. There are different Hasidim (Satmar, Lubavitch) communities with various issues. I really don't know what you have in mind that couldn't be discussed without smearing.

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The issues with both the Hasidic community and the Somali Muslim communities (ranging from the insular nature of the communities, as well as some of the behaviors that are problematic) are a direct outgrowth of the prevailing ideology of their respective communities and how they view "outgroups".

For instance, it's not a coincidence that we're seeing what we're seeing with regards to post #41 I made (I picked a different source because one of the other posters didn't care for the source the other person provided... Readers Digest version: A veteran detective who spent 15 years on the FBI Joint Task force ended up finding the same things as Nick Shirley 7 years ago)

The reason why they'd presumably have no problem with the concept of going to a non-Muslim country, getting money from non-Muslims (through means that would otherwise be considered shady) in said country, and finding ways to get it to the prevailing religious organizations back in their homeland (diaspora donations) is because that's what the prevailing regional interpretation of their religious leaders dictate is "the right thing to do"

And certain pockets of the Hasidic community (depending on which Talmudic Rabbi they take their direction from) have similar concepts, where it's okay to deceive and do other things to a non-Jew, that one wouldn't normally be allowed to do to a fellow Jewish person.


But those things have to be approached with the "walk on eggshells" approach, else one will get labelled as antisemitic or Islamophobic.

And the political angle is making that even more difficult, as since Trump has said bad things about the Somalis, there's an inclination to overlook things that people would otherwise have no problem pointing out.

If Pittsburgh had amassed a large insular Mormon community that made little to no no effort to assimilate their new community, over half were collecting welfare benefits, and a disproportionate number were running businesses that were the recipients of the proceeds of millions of dollars worth of Pennsylvania state programs, and then for 7 years duffel bags of large amounts of cash were flowing from the Pittsburgh Airport to the Airport in Salt Lake City, people would have no problem mentioning "hey, that's fishy!, and I'm betting they're sending that money to their religious leaders back home", and it wouldn't be viewed as a controversial assumption.

ThatRobGuy said:

Seems as if that's more of black eye on the legacy media for refusing to cover some of these stories.

It would appear some local affiliates of the mainstream sources have been aware of this for 7 years.

Millions of dollars in suitcases fly out of MSP, but why?

For five months, Fox 9 has been investigating what appears to be rampant fraud in a massive state program.

www.fox9.com

From May 2018:
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.

Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.

The national, go-to expert on what is behind these mysterious money transfers is Glen Kerns.

“What we were interested in is where it was going,” Kerns said.

He is a former Seattle police detective who spent 15 years on the FBI’s joint terrorism task force, until his retirement.

Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.

“It’s an outright crime, it’s unbelievable,” he said.

As Kerns dug deeper, he found that some of the individuals who were sending out tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of remittance payments happened to be on government assistance in this country.

How could they possibly come up with such big bucks to transfer back home?

“We had sources that told us, 'It’s welfare fraud, it’s all about the daycare,'” said Kerns.


....but now they don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole.


Seems as if the the findings were pretty similar back then as to what's being asserted now.

Millions of dollars of childcare assistance dollars, being pooled, and send in bags of cash back to Somalia (by way of Hawala transfers out of Dubai) with a prominent terrorist group taking a cut...with large sums being the result of abuse of childcare state programs.


So if people don't want to take Nick Shirley's video montage at face value, that's fine...I get it.

But roughly the same thing was espoused 7 years ago by a veteran detective who spent 15 years on the FBI joint taskforce.

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If you're not going to bother responding to my point, then reply to some other post.

Hans Blaster said:

If you're not going to bother responding to my point, then reply to some other post.

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Your post simply said that Solomon wasn't a reputable source, so I provided a source from a local Minneapolis news affiliate that is reputable.

Literally every single post of your in this thread had to do with concerns about the source that the other poster used


I addressed that directly by providing a credible source (a local-to-Minneapolis mainstream affiliate leveraging the statements of a 15 year FBI joint task force veteran talking about the exact same things happening 7 years ago)

Which point of yours am I not addressing?