Somali-owned daycares in Minnesota stand accused of embezzling more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars and sending that money to Islamic terrorists.
Fox 9, the local affiliate in Minneapolis, first broke the story last week –alleging significant fraud in the state-funding daycare system.
Fox 9 found “mysterious suitcases” filled with up to “$1 million in cash” passing through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport almost weekly in carry-on luggage. In 2017 alone, more than $100 million made its way through the airport.
According to Fox 9, these daycares sign up low-income families for government-funded daycare, but surveillance videos showed that parents would check their kids in, only to leave with them a few minutes later – or not even show up at all. The daycares would still bill the state for a full day of daycare.
Scott Stillman, who worked for the Department of Human Services, was directly involved with the investigations and tells Fox 9 that “significant amount of these defrauded dollars are being sent overseas to countries and organizations connected to entities known to fund terrorists and terrorism.”
So far, Minnesota has closed 13 daycare centers – but the investigation continues to stop the flow of money overseas.
Republicans at the capital plan to take it a step further. Last week, legislators passed a bill that would make it easier to close nefarious daycares and also create new criminal and civil penalties for anyone sending fraudulent money overseas.
Democratic Governor Mark Dayton is still reviewing the bill.
“I share the concern that the money not, first of all, be stolen from the state child-care program, and then sent to elsewhere and used for terrorist activities,” he said.
AAN Staff
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