To me this smacks of a "tip of the iceberg" moment.
While I hope the scale of the fraud is limited ... it wouldn't surprise me if the story keeps on going for a while, perhaps right through the midterms. Just as we saw with Dem pols' mortgage fraud, it strikes me that this kind of fraud is extended via conversations about "hey, this worked for us. What's working for you?"
""‘Their’ family means literally their direct family, followed by their tribe, followed by other Somalis (shaʻb) followed by other Islamics (ummah or Dar al Islam), against the Dar al-harb - the rest of the world.""
One of those long ago lessons when studying the Levant, in particular the Arabian culture, in the run up to being deployed in 1991 - not that I went overseas that time.
Yet nobody seems to have hit on the solution to the problem. While enforcing laws that criminalize fraudulent receipt of government money is a good start, the only effective way to completely eliminate the fraud is to eliminate the source of the money. In other words, cancel all government programs that pretend to "help the poor." As has been seen, they do little, if anything to actually "help the poor," but they do quite nicely "help the politicians and their friends and family" to attain and remain in power and acquire enormous amounts of wealth. Illhan Omar did not suddenly amass Thirty Million Dollars of net worth by careful husbanding of her $130,000.00 annual salary. And we saw how the money appropriated for USAID was vacuumed up by illicit NGO's whose only purpose was to enrich their officers and employees. To paraphrase J. Stalin, who said, "No man, no problem," we could state simply, "No money, no fraud." QED.
IIRC, Fed prosecutors have a bit more leeway in requesting change of venue in certain circumstances.
I'm sure that, even absent convictions - which would likely be needed for a full claw back - the 'moral turpitude' clause could be used to facilitate removal of the migrants.
That being said, it's a fair bet that there are a whole bunch of folks looking over their shoulders right now, trying to decide if it's better to be warm in Mogadishu, than chilling in Minnesota awaiting trial!
To me this smacks of a "tip of the iceberg" moment.
While I hope the scale of the fraud is limited ... it wouldn't surprise me if the story keeps on going for a while, perhaps right through the midterms. Just as we saw with Dem pols' mortgage fraud, it strikes me that this kind of fraud is extended via conversations about "hey, this worked for us. What's working for you?"
Maybe you missed a step there?
""‘Their’ family means literally their direct family, followed by their tribe, followed by other Somalis (shaʻb) followed by other Islamics (ummah or Dar al Islam), against the Dar al-harb - the rest of the world.""
One of those long ago lessons when studying the Levant, in particular the Arabian culture, in the run up to being deployed in 1991 - not that I went overseas that time.
Yet nobody seems to have hit on the solution to the problem. While enforcing laws that criminalize fraudulent receipt of government money is a good start, the only effective way to completely eliminate the fraud is to eliminate the source of the money. In other words, cancel all government programs that pretend to "help the poor." As has been seen, they do little, if anything to actually "help the poor," but they do quite nicely "help the politicians and their friends and family" to attain and remain in power and acquire enormous amounts of wealth. Illhan Omar did not suddenly amass Thirty Million Dollars of net worth by careful husbanding of her $130,000.00 annual salary. And we saw how the money appropriated for USAID was vacuumed up by illicit NGO's whose only purpose was to enrich their officers and employees. To paraphrase J. Stalin, who said, "No man, no problem," we could state simply, "No money, no fraud." QED.
Brilliant, Steve. Kind of an Occam's Razor thing. I hope they grind a fine edge to it.
I await the outcomes with GREAT interest.
1. They are making arrests now. https://mail.truthpress.com/news/doj-announces-98-arrests-in-minnesota-fraud-case-85-of-somali-descent/
2. The trials will come in maybe a year.
3. They'll be tried by a jury of their peers.
4. Jury Nullification will ensue.
5. They will all go back on welfare because their revenue streams at their old grift jobs have been kiboshed.
6. The grift will continue because there is no unified will to stop them in New Mogadishu.
IIRC, Fed prosecutors have a bit more leeway in requesting change of venue in certain circumstances.
I'm sure that, even absent convictions - which would likely be needed for a full claw back - the 'moral turpitude' clause could be used to facilitate removal of the migrants.
That being said, it's a fair bet that there are a whole bunch of folks looking over their shoulders right now, trying to decide if it's better to be warm in Mogadishu, than chilling in Minnesota awaiting trial!