The Daily Signal - Brown University Suspect Found Dead, 2nd Bondi Beach Attack Thwarted, Migrant Fraud | Dec. 19, 2025
Episode Date: December 19, 2025On today’s Top News in 10: The Brown University and MIT Shooter suspect is found dead, reported suicide, in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire. A follow-up terrorist attack on Bondi Beac...h in Sydney, Australia is thwarted before more were killed. Haitian migrants in Massachusetts join Somali migrants in Minnesota with another major welfare and NGO fraud scandal. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g The Signal Sitdown: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376 Problematic Women: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741 Victor Davis Hanson: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327 Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Brown University and MIT shooter suspect is found dead reported suicide in a storage unit in
Salem, New Hampshire. A follow-up terrorist attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia is thwarted
before more were killed, and Haitian migrants in Massachusetts join Somali migrants in Minnesota
with yet another major welfare and NGO fraud scandal. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily
Signals Tony Kennett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Friday, December 19th,
This is the Daily Signals.
Top News in 10.
Yesterday evening, we covered the police that includes federal law enforcement as well
as New Hampshire and Rhode Island authorities surrounding a storage facility in Salem,
New Hampshire, where it was believed that a gray Nissan believed to belong to the
suspect shooter of the Boston University and MIT.
shootings over the last week had fled to. ATF, as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation and
U.S. Marshal's agents surrounded the building before moving in after several gunshots were
heard. That's where the body of Claudio Nevis Valente, a 48-year-old non-citizen, a green card
holder from Portugal, and a former Brown University student was found with a reported self-inflicted
gunshot wound.
Here's a little from the following press conference.
The video of that subject matched the description of that person of interest
that this police department was desperate to put handcuffs on.
An individual was identified as Claudio Nevis Valenti,
date of birth, and he was a 48-year-old man.
He was a brown student.
He was a Portuguese national.
and his last known address was in Miami, Florida.
And I will tell you that he took his own life tonight.
We have members of the province police department
up and sailing Massachusetts, New Hampshire.
And we also have the BCI unit.
Obviously, the FBI and the evidence recovery unit is up there.
So the process is being conducted as we speak.
The Providence Rhode Island Police Department has received considerable scorn
for choosing not to release the name or full image of the suspect
as soon as they had it, to which it is reasoned that if the general public, like an Amber
alert situation, had the name or perhaps a picture of the suspect before he was found in a
secure storage facility in New Hampshire, perhaps he wouldn't have been able to murder a
professor of nuclear engineering at MIT or even escape the perimeter of Brown University,
where additional footage and audio recordings from the Providence North Dispatch
show that police officers may have staged and delayed outside the university
allowing, allowing Claudio Nevese Valente to escape before police could apprehend him.
And new information out of Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia,
in which new footage has shown the two terrorists which massacred men, women, and children
at the beach at the Hanukkah Festival
were a part of the
Gas the Jews Chance
in Sydney, Australia a couple of years
ago. And earlier yesterday, the
New South Wales Police, Public
Order and Riot Squad, were able to
intercept a vehicle in Liverpool
near Bondi Beach.
In total, not just five, but
seven men were arrested by
the end of the day and reportedly were
suspected of traveling from
Melbourne to reach the Bondi Pavilion
and commit perhaps another
extremely egregious terror attack and follow-up to the prior terror event just a couple of days ago,
to which the Australians versus the agenda show discovered that, according to Sky News and
internal Australian government sources, that one of the seven men arrested by the tactical
operation team in Liverpool was under active investigation by an Australian intelligence
service, while another was known to authorities.
Good morning. Welcome to the program. We have some important breaking news to bring
this morning. Sky News can reveal at least one of the men arrested in Liverpool yesterday
is under active ASEO investigation. This man has been under investigation by the security
agency for some time and it's because of his extreme ideological views. Another man
travelling in that car was also known to ASEO. The car they were travelling in, as we reported
last night was rammed off the road by counter-terrorism police that driven nine hours from
Melbourne and were on their way to Bondi Beach. Now, it is understood that they did not have
weapons in their possession, but police didn't know exactly what their intentions were,
and all agencies agree that under this climate, the actions police took were absolutely
justified. Police did say that while the group was traveling from Melbourne to Bondi,
no weapons were found in their possession or in the vehicle. And lastly, two major fraud stories
are developing yet again, not just in relation to the Somali migrants in Minnesota, who had
previously been expected to have committed $8 to $10 billion in fraud over several years,
partly funding the al-Shabaab terror network in Somalia, defrauding individuals based on what
they thought were donations to feed hungry children. Now that estimate is climbed to $18 billion.
Here's the assistant U.S. attorney investigating the Somali fraud, giving a bit of an update on
this incredible iceberg. I spoke in the fall about the iceberg I saw ahead. Something's
fraud that's much larger than what's been visible to the public. When I said that, it wasn't
hyperbole or rhetoric. It was a warning. And today I want to talk.
and I want to show here a sense of what that iceberg looks like because I think people deserve to know what that is and how big this problem is because we can't solve the problem until we grapple with the size of it.
So the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services pulled the claims data for these 14 programs dating back to 2018.
And those 14 programs in Minnesota have cost $18 billion since 2018.
and more than $3.5 billion in 2024 alone.
So that's a sense of the magnitude of the problem.
These are the 14 Medicaid programs,
which is just a part of Medicaid,
these wavered services that have been flagged
as having issues with program integrity and fraud.
Now, I'm sure everyone is wondering
how much of this $18 billion was fraud.
That's not the million.
question that's the $18 billion question the answer is far too much and the task ahead of all of us
is not only figuring out how much of that money was fraud because we know us and in massachusetts
two Haitian migrants have been arrested for committing fraud in the supplemental nutrition
assistance program or SNAP we are announcing federal charges against two men
Antonio Bonner and Saul Elis May for large-scale SNAP benefit trafficking, a scheme that turned a program designed to feed families into a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise.
Stap benefits are also known as food stamps.
The defendants are charged with one count of food stamp fraud.
As alleged in the charging documents, these men abused one of the government's most critical safety net programs for their own
financial gain. This is a tax, this is taxpayer money meant to keep people from going hungry.
These defendants decided to take it for themselves. These defendants exchanged snap benefits
for cash, which they pocketed. Bonner, a national, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti,
own the Jesuela Variety Store. Elisme, a lawful permanent resident also from Haiti,
owned the Saul Mashe Mixey store.
These two businesses were co-located within a single storefront in Boston.
To be certain, these were not supermarkets.
They were not full-service groceries.
It would be a huge stretch to even call them convenience stores.
In fact, the only thing convenient about these stores
was how easy it was to commit SNAP benefit fraud.
To put this in perspective, the Jesuela Variety Store
is less than 150 square feet in size, smaller than some bathrooms.
The Sao-Maché Mix-A store was approximately 500 square feet in space.
By contrast, a supermarket can be 20,000 to 60,000 square feet in size,
have a dozen or more registers, and employ numerous employees.
Both a Desuela variety and Sao-Mashe Mixei stores had one register, no carriages, no handbaskets,
and very little food for sale.
One legitimate supermarket in the same area as these stores
redeems approximately $80,000 in SNAP benefits per month.
Over the last 20 months, the Gisuela Variety Store
was redeeming between three and six times that amount monthly,
with nowhere near the space, inventory, customers, or infrastructure to support it.
The Sao-Mashe Mixey store,
deemed over $120,000 in SNAP benefits in the last six months.
Simply put, there is no plausible way SNAP eligible food could have been purchased
from these stores for this long.
Yet, these two stores are alleged to have illicitly trafficked nearly $7 million in SNAP benefits.
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The Daily Signals Top News in Ten
and our last for the next week.
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