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[00:00:01] We requested through the Freedom of [00:00:03] Access Act all of the no bid contract [00:00:06] [music] documents. [00:00:08] >> They were Oh, [00:00:08] >> you guys have you guys have deadlines to [00:00:11] turn over documents, which we don't have [00:00:13] there. [00:00:13] >> No, 7 days. [00:00:15] >> Nope. [00:00:16] >> We wanted all of these documents because [00:00:18] just because they're only public for 7 [00:00:19] days doesn't mean they're not still a [00:00:21] public record. And the Mills [00:00:22] administration came back and told us [00:00:24] they couldn't do it. [00:00:24] >> I'm a reporter with the main wire. I was [00:00:27] looking to see if I can schedule an [00:00:29] interview. So, I was looking back over [00:00:30] some old stories that we did and I found [00:00:33] links to old no bid contracts. I like, [00:00:36] hold on a second, these are all still on [00:00:38] a government server [music] somewhere. [00:00:42] I used Grock to write a program that [00:00:46] would guess [music] at the URLs where [00:00:48] those documents were and scraped from [00:00:51] the government servers 5,000 [music] [00:00:53] documents that they told they told me [00:00:55] they couldn't give me all pointing [00:00:57] towards no bid contract spending. [00:00:59] >> There's this man called Steve Robinson [00:01:02] and he is an alt white white neo Nazi. [00:01:08] >> Oh, you're racist. How can you say that? [00:01:11] >> Haj was involved in a massive uh money [00:01:13] laundering scheme. They [music] were [00:01:14] avoiding bank uh bank secrecy act rules. [00:01:18] The amount of wealth that they [music] [00:01:19] are extracting from the American [00:01:20] taxpayer is we're talking about [00:01:23] rebuilding whole communities in [00:01:24] Moadishu. [00:01:26] >> It's a tricky thing though because if we [00:01:28] request it photo and it does exist then [00:01:33] why wasn't it turned over to the ethics [00:01:36] commission or law enforcement or the [00:01:38] public? [00:01:39] So somebody would be telling on [00:01:40] themselves by complying with FOA if you [00:01:42] get what I'm saying. [00:01:43] >> It's a toxic FOA. [00:01:45] >> That's the biggest economic factor in [00:01:46] Somalia. So why wouldn't political [00:01:48] actors there protect that and expand [00:01:50] that and do what they could to support [00:01:52] that and streamline it? And they have. [00:02:05] >> [music] [00:02:07] >> We have a major player in Little [00:02:09] Mogadishu in Lewon [00:02:12] >> who is right now the sitting [music] [00:02:14] finance minister of Jubiland Somalia the [00:02:17] same nation state semi-autonomous region [00:02:20] [music] where Abdullah Ali tried to run [00:02:22] for president. the unique role that [00:02:24] Gateway Community Services plays in main [00:02:27] politics as an arm, a taxpayer funded [00:02:30] arm of the Democratic Party. [00:02:35] Talking about the single largest [00:02:36] economic factor in Somalia is money [00:02:40] flowing from our pockets. the claim that [00:02:43] Somali Medicaid pirates put on the [00:02:45] American paycheck, the American workers [00:02:46] paycheck. In no doubt, a deliberate [00:02:49] scheme by Somalia uh by Somali political [00:02:51] factions to extract wealth for their own [00:02:53] purposes for nation building. [00:02:56] [music] [00:03:02] [music] [00:03:03] >> There is a deliberate effort to resettle [00:03:06] Somali [music] refugees by groups like [00:03:07] Catholic Charities. [00:03:09] >> This is great, Steve. I'm Catholic. [00:03:11] Well, good for you. Catholic Charities [00:03:12] doesn't really have anything to do [00:03:13] [music] with being Catholic. [00:03:19] We're seeing evidence in Maine. You're [00:03:20] seeing evidence [music] [00:03:21] in Somalia of highlevel political [00:03:24] actors. [00:03:27] [music] [00:03:28] His name is Hussein Hersy Ahmed and [00:03:31] through Ahmed Management LLC, he owns a [00:03:34] commercial real estate building in [00:03:35] Little Moadishu. [00:03:37] >> What about the military folks that are [00:03:38] getting out of the military? Why would [00:03:41] we fast track them when we won't do it [00:03:44] for our own military? [00:03:45] >> This is all orchestrated and it sounds [00:03:47] like what you're saying is the voting [00:03:49] block is a big thing. Why don't they [00:03:51] just do what the citizens vote them in [00:03:54] to do? [00:03:59] [music] [00:04:00] >> Maybe they are [00:04:01] >> so that they can get voted back in [00:04:03] instead of going rogue and then just [00:04:05] importing voting blocks. It's less [00:04:08] profitable because they wouldn't be able [00:04:09] to be I mean I just [00:04:10] >> you don't get the you don't get the the [00:04:12] all expenses paid junkets to Turkey and [00:04:14] Azarjan if you're [00:04:15] >> you don't get to participate in the [00:04:17] corruption. [00:04:17] >> Yeah. [00:04:18] >> But I stand by the warlord allegation on [00:04:20] account of the fact that we have him [00:04:22] twice in Somali language media saying [00:04:25] that he was raising money to fund a [00:04:27] militia to depose the incumbent [00:04:29] president Madobe of Jubilant. But this [00:04:32] is the headquarters. [00:04:33] >> It sounds like the exact same footprint [00:04:35] as Minnesota. Yes, it is. How How many [00:04:38] states do you think this [music] is [00:04:40] happening in? [00:04:40] >> I'm so excited to be here. [00:04:43] >> He is grateful for the warm meal and to [00:04:45] be surrounded by friends in his new safe [00:04:48] home. [00:04:49] >> Why is it always a pathway to to [00:04:51] welfare? Why is there never a pathway to [00:04:54] success? [00:04:55] >> I don't want them in our country. I'll [00:04:57] be honest with you. Somebody would say, [00:04:58] "Oh, that's not politically correct. I [00:05:00] don't care. I don't want them in our [00:05:02] country." A Minnesota Somali community [00:05:04] appears to be the [music] next target of [00:05:06] the Trump administration's immigration [00:05:08] crackdown. [00:05:09] >> When you pull somebody out of a country [00:05:10] like that, I don't know if you've ever [00:05:12] been to a third world country [music] [00:05:13] like Somalia, but they'll do anything to [00:05:15] get out of that and they're still [00:05:17] going to vote for you because you pulled [00:05:19] [music] them out of that. [00:05:20] >> Treasury Secretary Bessant called [00:05:22] Minnesota ground zero for what may be [00:05:24] the most egregious welfare scam in our [00:05:26] nation. the things that are being [00:05:28] litigated and it is again [00:05:29] unconstitutional for them to do so. [00:05:32] >> Is it are you confident that the fraud [00:05:34] that has been [music] discovered is no [00:05:36] longer being conducted now. [00:05:52] [music]