Feds Probe Hundreds of Millions in Suspected Somali Cash in Luggage Leaving Minneapolis Airport

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This from a small to mid-size city.

All part of Democratic Party money laundering, no doubt.

And yeah, Tim Walz has lawyered up. I think the soy-boy mayor may also need to lawyer up.


The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers’ luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport the last two years, a massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers, Homeland Security officials told Just the News.

The officials said the cash movements out of Minnesota’s largest airport began about a decade ago – around the time Democrat Gov. Tim Walz took office – and has grown substantially in recent years.

Though all were legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage – some as much as $1 million in a single trip – raised regular suspicions among TSA agents.

The mountain of dollars leaving the country is now being investigated by the Homeland Security Investigations unit as part of a broader probe into a multibillion dollar fraud scheme centered around the state’s Somali immigrant community, where dozens have been charged with or convicted of federal crimes.

In March of last year, a federal jury convicted the head of the now-defunct organization Feeding our Future in Minnesota for what prosecutors called the largest-ever fraud of pandemic aid, which involved $250 million, the BBC reported.

$349.4 million in cash discovered leaving Minneapolis in 2025

Officials said most of the dollars detected in luggage involved a small number of money couriers of Somali descent who took routine routes to Dubai via Amsterdam, usually from Minneapolis but other times from Seattle, Dallas, Columbus and Atlanta.

Minneapolis travelers alone had $342.37 million in their luggage in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025, and the totals nationwide are likely to be much higher, the officials told Just the News.

TSA agents routinely flagged the cash movements to Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations, but there was little curiosity during the Biden administration, and investigations into the nature and players only began recently since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the officials told Just the News.

One senior official who declined to be identified but has first-hand knowledge of the issue told Just the News that there wasn’t much that could be done because the couriers always had their paperwork in order. But there were concerns about what was going on, and it may take Congress to change laws for federal authorities to get to the bottom of it or to stop it.

Another official said that when federal officials inquired with Minnesota officials, they often got accused of being racists by asking questions about Somali immigrants.

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This from a small to mid-size city.

All part of Democratic Party money laundering, no doubt.

And yeah, Tim Walz has lawyered up. I think the soy-boy mayor may also need to lawyer up.


The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash detected in passengers’ luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport the last two years, a massive cash exodus believed to be tied to Somali immigrants and their money couriers, Homeland Security officials told Just the News.
The officials said the cash movements out of Minnesota’s largest airport began about a decade ago – around the time Democrat Gov. Tim Walz took office – and has grown substantially in recent years.
Though all were legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules, the bundles of cash in luggage – some as much as $1 million in a single trip – raised regular suspicions among TSA agents.
The mountain of dollars leaving the country is now being investigated by the Homeland Security Investigations unit as part of a broader probe into a multibillion dollar fraud scheme centered around the state’s Somali immigrant community, where dozens have been charged with or convicted of federal crimes.
In March of last year, a federal jury convicted the head of the now-defunct organization Feeding our Future in Minnesota for what prosecutors called the largest-ever fraud of pandemic aid, which involved $250 million, the BBC reported.
$349.4 million in cash discovered leaving Minneapolis in 2025
Officials said most of the dollars detected in luggage involved a small number of money couriers of Somali descent who took routine routes to Dubai via Amsterdam, usually from Minneapolis but other times from Seattle, Dallas, Columbus and Atlanta.
Minneapolis travelers alone had $342.37 million in their luggage in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025, and the totals nationwide are likely to be much higher, the officials told Just the News.
TSA agents routinely flagged the cash movements to Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations, but there was little curiosity during the Biden administration, and investigations into the nature and players only began recently since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the officials told Just the News.
One senior official who declined to be identified but has first-hand knowledge of the issue told Just the News that there wasn’t much that could be done because the couriers always had their paperwork in order. But there were concerns about what was going on, and it may take Congress to change laws for federal authorities to get to the bottom of it or to stop it.
Another official said that when federal officials inquired with Minnesota officials, they often got accused of being racists by asking questions about Somali immigrants.
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Right in front of their noses and Minnesota politicians just let it happen. Can't put a stop to it because that would be racist.
 
All the politicians must be getting their cut because I don't see any of that money coming back. In fact, I don't see anyone being held accountable in any way.
 
Well it goes like this:
There is a customs form (federal) that you have to fill out when you move more than $10K in cash.
State officials have nothing to do with what happens at that point.

See below.


Anyway, the OP expects us to believe that the CBP has all of these declarations in their possession...but haven't released them.

Sure... You guys really have given up trying to even be remotely credible.
 
Well it goes like this:
There is a customs form (federal) that you have to fill out when you move more than $10K in cash.
State officials have nothing to do with what happens at that point.

See below.


Anyway, the OP expects us to believe that the CBP has all of these declarations in their possession...but haven't released them.

Sure... You guys really have given up trying to even be remotely credible.
Does it not bother you that Billions were stolen from the US Taxpayer all in the name of the poor it was intended?
 
Does it not bother you that Billions were stolen from the US Taxpayer all in the name of the poor it was intended?
It doesn’t seem to bother you, at least not when the perpetrator is white male Republican.
 
Does it not bother you that Billions were stolen from the US Taxpayer all in the name of the poor it was intended?
Ahh, the plantive appeal. You left out the part about them supposedly eating cats.


Sure it does bother me.. The DOJ both under Biden and Trump are prosecuting/have prosecuted them. Hopefully they will be deported after their lengthy prison sentences.

That is separate from the complete fiction in the OP though.
 
Ahh, the plantive appeal. You left out the part about them supposedly eating cats.


Sure it does bother me.. The DOJ both under Biden and Trump are prosecuting/have prosecuted them. Hopefully they will be deported after their lengthy prison sentences.

That is separate from the complete fiction in the OP though.
I could care less about the cats. I could also care less about the color, creed, religion, or political stripe. Politicians need to go down if they are using the Taxpayers’s money as an ATM.
 
I could care less about the cats. I could also care less about the color, creed, religion, or political stripe. Politicians need to go down if they are using the Taxpayers’s money as an ATM.
Sounds like NOEM needs to go up the river then. Agreed?
 
Doubtful.

Nothing gets spent without the excecutive signging off on it.


Stupid hogwash much? A $7T spending plan 8 feet tall of paper if printed. No CEO or Pres is going to micro-manage every dept line item breakdown you hot sack of bloddy fish guts. It's a formality.

Congress wrote it peice by peice and only they or God knows where a lot of it (10%) goes or ends up. Just get off the boards with your childlike nonsense.
 
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Stupid hogwash much? A $7T spending plan 8 feet tall of paper if printed. No CEO or Pres is going to micro-manage every dept line item breakdown you hot sack of bloddy fish guts. It's a formality.

Congress wrote it peice by peice and only they or God knows where a lot of it (10%) goes or ends up. Just get off the boards with your childlike nonsense.
Sniffing glue again I see.
 
It doesn’t seem to bother you, at least not when the perpetrator is white male Republican.
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Like most low information right wingers, you’ve never heard of Rick Scott fleeing the government for billions.
Rick Scott did not "flee the government"... he was the CEO of a company that perpetrated the largest health care fraud in U.S. history...
So what?... that's also wrong... what's your point Karen?....
 

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