As the Somali daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota widens, a curious report on X raises the concern that Somalis other than refugees are involved in suspicious activity other than daycare fraud.
Libs of TikTok (LOTT) revealed on X that Somali Foreign Minister Abdisalam Ali owns a taxpayer-subsidized healthcare company. And his business partner works for a money-transfer outfit that authorities in Kenya had linked to terrorism.
A separate report on X shows that 40 daycare centers in Columbus operated under the auspices of the now-closed Somali Resource and Education Center.
As for the major daycare scandal in Minnesota, the U.S. House Oversight Committee has announced that it will hear testimony from state lawmakers who warned far-left Democratic Governor Tim Walz and equally far-left Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison about the crimes. Walz and Ellison will also appear before the committee.
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LOTT fingered Ali, also the deputy prime minister, on January 1.
“Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs owns a home healthcare company in Ohio,” the X feed reported:
There’s two other healthcare companies in the same suite as his and multiple others at this address with Somali owners
What are the odds…
Ali’s home health company is Ritechoice Healthcare Services. Ali also owns a medical transportation company in Toledo, MedExpress Transportation. Both are headquartered in Toledo.
He also owns a separate limited liability corporation, Salam Group, that operates at the same address in Columbus as Dahabshiil, a large Somali money transfer company. The Buzzfile website reports that the outfit was founded in 2019, pulls in $153,577 in annual revenues, and employs four people.
In 2015, Kenya’s central bank suspended Dahabshiil’s operations. The reason: Suspicion of terror financing.
“The company is among 85 entities and individuals whose assets Kenya has frozen because they are ‘suspected to be associated’ with al-Shabaab,” Bloomberg Business reported:
The sanctions were introduced by the government on April 7 after the Islamist militant group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for an attack on a university in northeastern Kenya in which at least 147 people died.
The bank later lifted the suspension, which was not the first trouble the company had had over such concerns. Barclays bank in England targeted the company in 2013.
In 2017, the son of a Somali artist murdered by the Somali al-Shabaab terror outfit sued the company on the grounds that it “conspired to provide material support” to the terrorists. The federal lawsuit was dismissed.
LOTT also reported that Ali’s business partner, Abdul Surey, works at Dahabshiil, and that Ali’s healthcare company receives tax money.
Ali’s official biography claims he earned a bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Business Administration from the University of Toledo.
Obvious questions:
- Why does a government official in Somali own a healthcare business in Ohio?
- How can he effectively manage it from a country 8,500 miles away?
- How much taxpayer money is the Somali foreign minister collecting?
Ohio Daycare Scandal, House to Probe Minnesota Scandal
Another X account, Right Angle News Network, reposted news from The Coerced Nurse that 40 daycare centers in Columbus “all opened under the same defunct shell organization, the Somali Education & Resource Center.” They “have been identified as opening and beginning operations on the exact same day, with combined earnings of $14 million in 2024 alone.”
“How does one CLOSED SOMALIAN shell organization have over 40 ‘daycares’ in Columbus Ohio?” she asked:
How do 40+ BEGIN ON THE SAME EXACT DAY ?
How much funding are they each receiving from the state? Are they “legitimate” childcare centers?!
Not so proud my state would allow this to happen.
In Minnesota, where the Somali daycare fraud came to light, officials are making plans for a trip to Washington, D.C. The House Oversight Committee announced that Walz and Ellison must appear before the committee on February 10. On January 7, state representatives will appear.
“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have either been asleep at the wheel or complicit in a massive fraud involving taxpayer dollars in Minnesota’s social services programs,” GOP committee chief James Comer of Kentucky said:
American taxpayers demand and deserve accountability for the theft of their hard-earned money. The U.S. Department of Justice is actively investigating, prosecuting, and charging fraudsters who have stolen billions from taxpayers, and Congress has a duty to conduct rigorous oversight of this heist and enact stronger safeguards to prevent fraud in taxpayer-funded programs, as well as strong sanctions to hold offenders accountable.
The state lawmakers scheduled to appear next week are those “who sounded the alarm on this fraud — and whose warnings were ignored by the Walz administration,” Comer averred.
GOP Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky warned on X that funding for the Minnesota daycare program expires on January 30, but that House leaders won’t do anything about it.
“It’s an $8 billion nationwide program without guardrails to prevent theft,” Massie wrote:
I challenge my colleagues to eliminate the fraud, but I suspect @SpeakerJohnson and @LeaderJohnThune will fund it without a fix.
“The fraud in MN is insane and should be prosecuted, but I have questions,” he had written minutes earlier:
When did it become the federal government’s role to provide daycare?
Can grandmas get payments if they care for grandkids? why not?
Do moms who work at home or on a farm qualify for this assistance?
