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There are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced. If there was a linkage in that the money that they have stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out. Basically charging them with these charges.
So you see, she got a softball interview from Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. That is Elon Omar. And she's talking about the Somalis, 80 plus at minimum, involved in the fraud of the pandemic funds, the fraud when it came to social welfare funds and various programs that things like Autistic Money for Autistic Children, things like Feed America programs, started by Elon Omar. And she's blaming the FBI for not following through. Listen, that's one of your staffers that was involved in this.
The restaurant that said they served 18,000 meals in a 35-table restaurant is a place that you had multiple events that say they're friends of yours. And nobody's more important in the Somali community than you. Are you going to tell me in your constituency, in your district, you had no idea this was going on? Griff Jenkins joins us now, Fox and Friends Weekend, getting set to do eight hours. Griff.
Well, we're going to go deep into this story, Brian. Because just about an hour ago, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson put a tweet out saying that he is now going to issue a geographic targeting order on the money service businesses, a GTO on the MSB.
Sounds technical, but what it is, is it's going to be the financial enforcement division of the Department of Treasury is going to really try and trace and do the old, remember the saying, follow the money.
Well, that's what they want to do. And so for Ilan O'Mar to say, well, if money went to terrorists, then it's the FBI. Blame the FBI. No, no. I'm kidding.
Secretary Besson saying, you know what? Let's find out. And so there's a piece up today on FoxNews.com talking about within this Somali community, they use a somewhat shadowy financial system called Hawala, which is intended to, you know, when Somalis make money, they want to send it back to relatives' home. They want to do whatever. This is crazy.
Oh, yeah. But they're trying to, you know, Know, avoid the paper trail, not going through normal banking services so that there's less of a footprint of it. And so, this is what Bessett wants to get to the bottom of. And, you know, to be fair, so far, all the prosecutions of 60-plus people, most of whom are Somali in the fraud investigations that have happened to date, did not have ties to terrorism.
So, here's the tweet you're referring to. Egregious fraud one hour ago, egregious fraud in Minnesota has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, actually a billion, by the way, including funds sent to Somalia through many money services, businesses, which provides financial services outside of Formula Bank. Under President's leadership, Treasury will not stop until we get to the bottom of it. And by the way, it says show more, so let me show more. To the end, Treasury will soon issue a geographic targeting order, GTO, as you mentioned, to enhance reporting requirements within FinCEN financial enforcement.
Thank you. Then, an important tool will be used to make sure information regarding any illicit activity is quickly reported to them. You've made it available to our law enforcement. CBS does this story today, obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in one of the biggest COVID-era fraud schemes in American history. Um they have this.
At sentencing of a defendant, they said they used taxpayer funds for cars and the Maldives vacation. This is a 24-year-old, where this 24-year-old, and they name him, it's unpronounceable, where others saw a crisis and rushed to help. You saw money and rushed to steal, the judge said. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in order to pay back $48 million. Nora is one of dozens who siphon hundreds of millions of dollars.
But look at the programs they took it from. A confirmation they took it from, they took it to get Lakefront property in Minnesota, receipts of wire transfers to China and East Africa, first-class tickets to Istanbul and Amsterdam, a confirmation of an email for an overnight stay in a villa in the Maldives. And a 2021 Porsche. Stacks of cash, pictures of stacks of cash texted between defendants. Bundles of cash, luxury cars, you know, resorts and the Maldives.
Come on. I think the best part, and I applaud CBS for doing this. They went deep into many of the investigations and prosecutions of these individuals. I think the line that stood out of the CBS reporting more to me than anything was at one point, one individual was saying to the other one, these are Somali fraudsters, saying, You're going, you're quote, going to be the wealthiest 25-year-old Somalian inshallah, God willing. And so, you know, they were brazenly, brazenly doing this because it was there for the taking.
But I do think, as you were just reading that sort of long tweet from Secretary Besson, is significant because FinCEN is this criminal investigation enforcement division that goes after people you think of like white-collar crime or whatnot.
Well, this is going to take an international track and they're going to try and build some paper trail. Of where all of this cash went. Because at the end of the day, one Porsche of Vacation of the Maldives in a lakefront property, you know, that's not a billion dollars. Where did all the money go? And did it go to Al-Shabaab, which is an affiliate of Al-Qaeda?
Now, that's what Chris Rufo says it ties to, but that's what the, you know, we're great at that. One of the reasons why we were successful in the war on terror is unwinding the money, finding out where it was going, where it was from, and where it was going.
So if you think about it, that money goes to. He goes to Somalia. And then al-Shabaab gets it. It goes right to the Middle East. It goes over to Europe and this helps fund some of the terrorist activities that are hurting the West.
Right. And you know, it's also, if you broaden it a little bit, this is part of what we're doing with regards to Venezuela is Built upon the ability to us follow the money. We're following the money. The Cartel del Solas, the Cartel of the Sons, and Maduro allegedly is the kingpin leader of. They follow, and it's not just Venezuela, the Mexican cartels.
That's how we've caught some of these big guys by following that money trail. And what's startling to me is that while you had years of this fraud in the Somalian community in Minnesota, why wasn't Biden's Treasury Department trying to figure out, wait a minute. You know what they did? You know, it turns out it started, the investigation started under Biden, and they started to discover that the governor was punishing whistleblowers. Right.
So not going after the actual criminals, but going after those that are trying to expose it. Look, I think.
So do you want to hear the name of these companies? Yeah. Think about this. Do you want to be evil personified? They were taking money from a program called Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit to give money to food to the poor.
It claimed federal funds there and they used them for other purposes. Services. Partners in Nutrition, a nonprofit-sponsored multiple meal distribution sites for those people, the poor people that were eating terribly and wanted to eat more nutritiously. They took money from adult day services, SNS catering, Lake Street Kitchen. They took money from housing stabilization services and various other charitable claims.
So this is evil. Robbing from children, elderly services. I mean, I think, you know, as people learn more and more about this, with regards to Governor Tim Walls, he at very best was incompetent to not have really gone after it harder, or he's corrupt insofar as looking the other way and allowing it to happen for fear of trying to label an entire community, the Somali community, you know, racist or, you know, we're being unfair by going after him. At the end of the day, you know, this is like a Ponzi scheme on steroids. Two-thirds of the people, or nine-tenths of the people, are related to some type of Somali heritage, whether they're legal citizens, green card holders, or here illegally.
So that's important to point out, especially because I believe 80% of them are still on some type of social welfare. When you come to this country, you can't spend 10 years on social welfare. That's not the way it works. We used to give nothing. We used to have to prove that you had a job before you got here.
You go back on the boat. I mean, we've overcompensated with money we don't have. We have. And, you know, it doesn't get talked about very much, but under the four years of President Biden's border crisis, one of the things that was not enforced was the work requirement for people that were under temporary protective status. It had TPS.
Venezuelans had it, and Somalia's had it. It's going to be interesting, too, to see if they'll follow the people that try now in self-deport. Remember, we've had 2.5 million people leave the country after this administration's been encouraging that, even giving them a stipend to go. You wonder whether some of the Somalis that have not been charged, that know they're going to eventually be found out, will try and get out of the country before we get them. Yeah, we'll find them and we'll have their trail and it'll tell a different story.
And I wonder how much goes right back to Elon Omar, who's suddenly worth millions of dollars. Who's probably should be making 200,000, 300,000? What do you make in Congress? 300,000? No.
200? 200. I would have to look at the latest numbers, but no, they don't. They don't make enough money to live a lavish lifestyle. That's why they're serving their country, right?
A lot of people make their money and then choose to not make much money for a few years and serve their country, either the administration or Congress. But that's totally flipped now. And it's not just Ilan O'More, the number of lawmakers that are getting wealthy by coming to Washington. But I do think, with regards to her, and that soundbite is so key that you played opening up this segment, which is she wants to blame the FBI. She'll come up with someone else to blame because ultimately she knows that she has got to defend even the criminal behavior of that community in Minnesota.
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He's up six to eight points with his approval rating in California, even though I can't name one positive thing he's done except attack Trump.
Now, with Ezra Klein, he talks about, I guess, blaming Trump, Trump, for the poverty. Homelessness in California. Try to make sense of this, Griff, if you can. Cut 50. Savage's view.
Is that California is a kind of hellscape. But there are some set of problems that, from his perspective, are visible, that from your perspective, are harder to solve.
Well, I mean, the affordability crisis, he's 100% right. Uh The poster child of our failure as a state is the issue of poverty that's out on the streets and sidewalks as it relates to encampments and homelessness. Yes. Yes. That's the problem.
You said you were going to solve homelessness. You brought, you increased it. It's so rich that you have not just Gavin Newsome, but you have pretty much every Democrat in Washington rallying around this affordability issue because here is a crisis of poverty created under Gavin Newsom's leadership, in this case, inflation under President Biden. And yet Democrats are saying that they've got the prescription, the solution.
Somebody had a great line. They said, you can't be an arsonist and a fireman at the same time. And so that's going to fall flat. What's fascinating to me, though, is as we see Gavin Newsom continue to be out there. And look, to be fair, he's a good politician insofar as he's out there, you know, at every turn, trying to take on Trump and trying to do memes and sort of imitating him.
He's trying to play the game more so than I think some of the other people that like Kyle Harris, like You look at her and you're like, What are you doing? There's a DNC winner meeting. Newsom's there. Harris is there. We'll see what comes of it.
But at the end of the day, what's fascinating to watch, keep your eye on these progressive primary challengers. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, Gavin Newsom's biggest threat to him getting the nomination is a guy named Bernie Sanders. And he is never going to be president, but he is a kingmaker insofar as he is.
Now he is too old.
Now he's too old.
So he's got to get somebody in. But he's still a kingmaker getting these progressives on the heels of Mamadani's victory.
Well, here's what's scary. Here's what's scary. If someone does get the nomination with Bernie Sanders' help, they'll end up like Joe Biden, who has to sacrifice any type of moderate agenda for that left-wing green agenda, which is, by the way, Dead in the water. That's one of the most undertold stories. The new green scam, maybe severe a scam, but all that stuff, all the renewables, got to save the planet.
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We overstated it. Yeah, really? Really? You ran on that. You jammed the inflation reduction actresses, the new green scam, down our throats for all these years, Solyndra on down, and now you're admitting you wasted our money, our time.
Democrats lost in 2024 because progressives took the party over and Americans didn't buy it across party lines.
Now you're seeing Democrats trying to take it over again with progressives. Michigan coach in jail at this hour. Not only does he lose his job for an inappropriate relationship, then he gets jailed for an attempted assault. We don't know the details, but it seems to be at his girlfriend's. Here is Rich Eisen on what he was learning as he talks to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Yeah. Something this week. developed that the school felt like it had irrefutable evidence And was left no other choice. I am gutted. I am shocked.
I'm dismayed. I'm depressed. I'm disgusted. Every single emotion that you think I would have, I've got. It took no less than 90 minutes after Ohio State thumped the University of Michigan.
In the big house just a couple of Saturdays ago. It took no fewer than 90 minutes for me to hear the rumor about this.
Okay. That suggests, and that's really interesting, coming from Rich Eisen. He's a well-sourced guy in the sports world. That suggests that the secret of this affair, this mistress on the team, was an open secret in Ann Arbor. That's what that tells me right there.
And you wonder.
Well, had Michigan won, would this have ever come to light? Oh, wow. They say donors were out because they were 9-3 after being 8-5, replacing Harbaugh, who won the national championship and beat Ohio State finally.
So now they're looking for a replacement. It might be grabbing an Alabama's coach. But the question is, he goes over, it looks like he went over to the girlfriend's house and he had a knife, and they said murder-suicide. That's probably where that could have been heading. That's what TMZ is saying, and some others are saying.
I don't know. He's in jail at this hour. I've never seen someone's life crater. In a shorter period of time than this guy's 100%. And if you listen to this, TMZ releasing the 911 dispatcher call, he starts at his wife's first call saying that my husband lost his job.
He's got a knife. He's suicidal. And then he goes over to the assistant or the staffer, which we believe to be the mistress, the girlfriend.
So we'll see what details we learn about that when he makes a court appearance. We might learn a little bit more about it. But you do wonder, looking at the reporting on the fact that apparently this executive assistant had their salary greatly increased 50% or more. That's the type of thing. If you know your boss is having an affair in the office, it doesn't really affect you.
But then if you learn it's an assistant, a lowly assistant that's getting a lot of cash out of it and you work inside the organization, you're not happy. Right. Griff Jenkins, thanks so much. He'll be talking about this weekend, right? On Fox and Friends?
That's right. Fox and Friends weekend. We're going to have a great show. We got Kaylee McEnany, Mike Pompeo, a whole list of great people. 6 to 10, Saturday and Sunday.
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