The Somali fraud scandal is expanding beyond daycares.
It's bigger than anyone imagined.
And TSA agents found something bad in Somali luggage that sparked an FBI probe.
TSA flagged $700 million leaving Minneapolis in two years
Transportation Security Administration agents at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport kept seeing the same thing in passenger luggage.
Cash. Massive amounts of it.
$700 million over two years.
Some passengers carried as much as $1 million in a single trip.
Almost all of it involved a small number of money couriers of Somali descent traveling to Dubai via Amsterdam.
TSA agents flagged the movements to Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations repeatedly.
The Biden administration did nothing.
The cash exodus began around the time Democrat Governor Tim Walz took office and exploded during the Biden years.
The cash was legally declared according to U.S. Customs rules.
But the volume — $342.37 million in 2024 alone, $349.4 million in 2025 — screamed that something was wrong.
One senior official told Just the News that agents couldn't do much because the couriers always had their paperwork in order.
But when federal officials asked Minnesota state officials about the cash flows, they got accused of being racists.
That shut down the questions real fast.
Trump dispatches hundreds of agents to investigate
The mountain of cash is now being investigated by Homeland Security as part of a broader probe into a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme centered around Minnesota's Somali immigrant community.
More than 90 defendants have already been indicted.
In March 2025, a federal jury convicted the head of Feeding Our Future for the largest-ever fraud of pandemic aid — $250 million stolen from American taxpayers.
Counterterrorism officials have worried since 2016 that some of this money could be funding al-Qaeda offshoots like Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram.
But tracking stopped when the money hit Dubai.
Biden's people weren't curious.
Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek told Just the News more than $200 billion leaves the United States annually through remittances.
Mexico alone receives over $52 billion.
"At least $4.4 billion in remittances sent to Mexico have been tied to cartel money laundering," Malek said.
"Cartels don't sneak money across the border. They wire it. And if we are serious about crushing cartels, we have to shut down their financial arteries."
Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council chief of staff, called out the double standard.
"If you or I try to go through an airport, and we had $10,000 in cash without declaring it, we'd be arrested," Fleitz said.
Think about that.
You get arrested for $10,000.
But $700 million flows out of Minneapolis and Biden looks the other way?
Fleitz nailed what Biden was actually doing.
"The Biden administration knew this was going on. It was part of their efforts to change the demographics of this country by encouraging illegal migration."
TSA and other agencies don't have authority to stop cash movements on flights if Customs declarations are filled out.
Congress needs to create new tracking and stoppage tools.
TSA agents flagged the same money couriers flying the same routes carrying millions in cash over four years.
They reported it up the chain every single time.
And Biden's Homeland Security killed every investigation because they were terrified of being called racist.
So the cash kept flowing.
All while Biden's DOJ was prosecuting January 6 grandmas and raiding Mar-a-Lago.
Trump sent hundreds of FBI, Homeland Security, and IRS agents to Minnesota the day he took office.
Feeding Our Future's head got convicted for stealing $250 million in pandemic aid.
And now investigators are tracking where all that airport cash actually went.
Tim Walz — who let Minneapolis burn during the George Floyd riots — defended the Somali community and accused Trump of "demonizing" them.
"Demonizing an entire community, folks who are in the professions, educators, artists, doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs," Walz whined to NBC.
Nobody's demonizing an entire community, Tim.
They're investigating a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme where dozens have been convicted or indicted.
Walz would rather play the race card than admit his state became ground zero for one of the biggest financial crimes in American history.
The Somali couriers are part of a much larger system where legal and illegal immigrants move tens of billions of dollars out of the United States annually.
Missouri is requiring remittance businesses to verify customers are lawfully in the United States before they can send money to foreign countries.
Other states need to follow.
Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) told Just the News that the Minnesota fraud scandal will force Congress to give federal authorities more power.
"We have to do it. It's embarrassing that Congress hasn't done this before," Crank stated.
"These are financial controls that any company would have on corporate money. The board of directors would fire them if they didn't."
Biden spent four years protecting this operation because investigating it didn't fit his open borders agenda.
You carry $10,000 through an airport without declaring it, you're in handcuffs.
But $700 million flows to Dubai, and Biden called anyone asking questions a racist.
That's not border policy.
That's criminal negligence.
Sources:
- John Solomon, "Feds probe hundreds of millions in suspected Somali cash in luggage leaving Minneapolis airport," Just the News, January 6, 2026.
