Federal agents investigating a Somali immigrant operation that moved massive amounts of cash in suitcases from the Minneapolis airport to overseas have uncovered a new leg of the courier journey: the Columbus, Ohio airport.
Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash in outbound luggage at the passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.
The cash movements were made by U.S. citizens of Somali origin who flew out of the Columbus airport en route to either the airports in Minneapolis or Atlanta, and the couriers always declared the cash as legally required on documents, officials said.
“Typically, when they go to Minneapolis, they drop off the cash and then a subsequent courier travels abroad from Minneapolis to Dubai through Amsterdam,” one official familiar with the investigation told Just the News on Tuesday, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
Multiple Somali communities involved
The officials said they appear to have uncovered a massive cash movement operation that gathered money from multiple Somali immigrant communities in the West, Midwest and South that eventually brought luggage filled with currency to Minneapolis for flights overseas.
Just the News reported exclusively last week that TSA detected nearly $700 million in cash in luggage leaving the Minneapolis airport in 2024 and 2025, frequently headed on a route to Amsterdam and then Dubai where U.S. officials lost the tracking. The TSA agents routinely alerted investigators during the Biden years, but there was little interest in probing the money movements further until President Donald Trump took office last year.
The cash movements out of Minnesota’s largest airports by the Somali immigrant couriers were 90 to 99 times larger than the total amounts moved out of major international airports like John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City or Seattle and Atlanta, officials said.
As investigators began tracking the money backwards throughout its journey, they discovered the operation in Columbus, officials said Tuesday.
“Tip of the iceberg,” says Rand Paul
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., has taken note of the Just the News reporting, revealing to popular podcaster Joe Rogan this week he is launching an investigation to see if the exports of cash were tied to the fraud.
“The Somalis were so good at it that they were sending hundreds of millions of dollars back overseas,” Paul told Rogan in a podcast that aired Tuesday. “So I think we are at the tip of the iceberg.”
“You have to check off a box when it goes through the airport, and they weren’t even hiding that they were sending it back. So the poor Somalis sent like $700 million over the last couple of years,” he added.
The revelations of a massive money movement operation based in America’s Somali immigrant communities come amidst an investigation by federal prosecutors in Minnesota into a fraud scheme estimated to have fleeced taxpayers of as much as $9 billion in welfare that predominantly went to Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis area.
That scandal has ended Gov. Tim Walz’s political ambitions, forcing the Minnesota Democrat to abandon plans to run for re-election in 2026. It also has prompted President Donald Trump to end special immigration status for Somalians seeking refuge in the U.S., and launched a major fraud investigation by the House Oversight Committee. That led the FBI and Homeland Security Department to send hundreds of agents to investigate.
More than 90 defendants, mostly of Somali descent, have been indicted, with about half already convicted of crimes, prosecutors said.
Well, I wouldn’t say this ends Walz’s career. Democrats love crime and criminals. Just like incompetence, being corrupt does not disqualify a leftist from running for and even winning office. For instance, even though his regime was notified of suitcases full of cash flowing in a convoy out of Minnesota and towards Somalia, they didn’t show any interest (no doubt everyone along the line got to wet their beak), had he stayed in the race Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden would have mustered lots of support. For all we know, this could all be “Russian disinformation”.
Walz is a total loser and a scam a UN/CFR/Globalists who needs to be not only recalled but investigated and all those involved in this whole thing needs to Go To Jail for 30 or more years
Hawala is an old system of money transfer used by Muslims to take cash from one place to another without records or banks.
A trusted person carries the money physically.
In the some Muslim heavy places in the USA this system is given an exception to the strict $10,000 cash travel limit.
Thus we find out millions in cash just disappeared from the USA and ended up in Somalia.
Bending over backward for Muslim criminals has got to stop, even at the risk of being called “racist,” or “Islamaphobic.”
Desperate old commie, he is in the thick of it no doubt. Getting Ice agents run down and beat with shovels and broom sticks with Inflamatory rhetoric, sold his soul cheap.
https://www.news.com.au/national/end-this-occupation-gov-tim-walz-urges-minnesotans-to-protest-peacefully/video/ab90ff5c4fd39a1d5f0bf2ea2fc4b3ea