The 205-page U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee staff report on Minnesota fraud includes this incredible detail on page 85,
In 2017, DHS flagged concerns that the bank account of the owner of a child care center connected with the MMCA was frozen by the Office of Foreign Asset control due to the owner’s association with the Taliban.405 Despite these concerns, DHS mailed this individual a check for $24,000. 406
Yes, The Taliban, you read that correctly. In this instance MMCA refers to the Minnesota Minority Childcare Association. The staff report (p. 86) quotes from an internal email within the state Department of Human Services (DHS) back in 2017,
Within the last few days DHS sent an electronic payment to
(REDACTED}. We have been advised that the payment was kicked back by the subject[‘]s bank (don’t have account info yet) due to the center[‘]s account being frozen by OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset Control). {REDACTED) it appears the owner of the child care center is associated with a TALIBAN official, which is why the account was
ordered frozen.
As it that weren’t enough, the internal DHS email,
notes that a redacted individual (likely the same mentioned above) is likely connected to yet another center and has visited Edmonton 11 times, Malaysia 2 times, Somalia 42 times and Kenya 33 times.
Your tax dollars at work. As I mentioned, the committee staff report runs some 205 pages. We will keep digging.
[Note: an earlier version of this post appeared at AmericanExperiment.Org.]
