The Trish Regan Show - Congress Takes Steps to REMOVE Ilhan Omar as Minnesota FRAUD SCANDAL Explodes!

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

Ilhan Omar faces a reckoning. As Minnesota’s massive fraud scandal explodes, pressure is mounting for Omar to resign — or be voted out. Rep. Randy Fine is leading the charge to oust her, as calls grow for criminal penalties amid allegations that Omar and her husband knew far more about the fraud than they’ve admitted. Will the FBI or DOJ act first? 👉 Join Trish Regan LIVE for one of the final shows of 2025. FOLLOW ME ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2blgbg4OaN5dqFhkBy12ii?si=HPdSujPDRrapZWtxbsgAjQ&nd=1&dlsi=fbe187477c8148ae PLUS: 💼 Support independent journalism — become a Team Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join GET TRISH’S NEWSLETTER: https://76research.com with code DOLLAR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, we are live, you guys, live on location. So you're going to have to bear with me, but this was so important to be on the air today that I didn't care. I'm actually in the Caribbean right now on a boat. So if it looks a little off-kilter, you can blame the boat, not me. Welcome to the program. I'm Trisha. You can please make sure you subscribe, share, like we are coming up on the end of the year. What do you know?

What a great year it's been. For us, anyway, not so much. For one, Ilhan Omar or Tim Walts or Keith Ellison, for that matter. I'm talking about the entire state of Minnesota. to all the politicians there that now find themselves in all kinds of trouble, as they should, because this is one for the history books. And guess what? The FBI is blowing all of this wide open. Well, the FBI and a little YouTuber, yeah, a little YouTuber. And it's good, see, I told you, like I said, you know, we're on a boat. So if things get topsy-turvy, you know why.

Welcome again to the program. Congress, as we speak, is preparing to kick Ilhan Omar out. This is actually very serious, and it's in part related to the accusations against her and possibly her husband, surrounding what they knew, allegedly, about what may go down in history is the largest fraud ever, although California apparently is trying to make a run for it as well. They get $70 billion missing there. Thank you very much, Gavin Newsom. That's really going to play well on your card when you try to secure the Democrat nomination. Think not. Anyway, right now the focus is Minnesota. and the focus is Ilhan Omar and getting her out of Congress

because if these accusations are in fact true, she may not have any choice. I mean, like it's the end of the road for one Ilhan Omar as well as for her husband, Timmy. He's like, Tim must be a very popular name. What do you know, Minnesota, another Timmy. So her Timmy is possibly in some serious trouble as well. Here's a big article that appeared in Axios,

pointing out that Randy Fine, he would be the representative Republican actually out of Florida. he's had it with this woman. So she took some of his words out of context. She heard him say something about, you know, if the problem is really the Muslim people, et cetera, like, what are we doing, letting them all in? He was actually referring to the threat of homegrown terror or terror abroad.

And he was saying we need to be more cognizant of this. And she took that and ran with it in a fundraising email. She's like, oh, he wants to wipe us out. So we got to go after him. You got to raise money for me. Ilhan Omar so as to prevent that. And he was really offended by that. And he's like, okay, lady, you know what? I can go after you pretty hard, much harder than it seemed like I was going after you the other day on Capitol Hill. In fact, I can launch an entire vote. And I'm going to,

he said, to get you kicked out of Congress because she was the one that introduced the legislation that led to the $250 billion being defrauded. Yeah, that was kind of a big deal, don't you think? she was the woman who held all those events at the restaurant or restaurants plural. This graphic actually, I should, courtesy of my former employer here, Fox, they make such nice graphics. I'm going to hand it to them. We've got good graphics too here on the Trish Riegan show, but Fox gets the credit on this one, held events at one of the restaurants named in the fraud case and had a former staffer

who was convicted. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, actually. convicted. So one of those many, many, what are they have to over 70 right now, convictions in all of this. So you start to say to yourself, gee, you know, Ilhan, this is adding up to a pretty bad set of circumstances. On the day you announce your marriage to Timmy, Wyatt, Maya, whatever his name is, he's the guy who's the campaign manager. You can't make it up. And their net worth went from like, you know, $200,000 to $30 million to $30 million, up to $30 million. That's what she says. She's worth now. It's like, whoa, because he's got something that he calls a private equity firm.

Let me say, I know a lot about private equity. This ain't no private equity firm. No, no, no, no. Rose Lake Capital, gosh, it sounds like one of Hunter's things, right? It actually strikes me, if you go on the website, as being nothing but a political consultant operation. With a winery investment, apparently there were allegations of fraud in that investment, too. Whoa, I mean, these people, you know, she really met her. there, I guess, if all these allegations proved to be true.

$9 billion, that's the latest and greatest, but people are saying, no, no, it's probably a lot more than that. We're talking about Medicaid fraud, okay? Medicaid and Medicare fraud. We're talking about daycare fraud. Wait to you see what I show you one YouTuber. Like, he's going to take Ilhan down. It's fantastic.

He went into these daycares that don't actually have any kids in them, yet they were getting millions of millions of millions of dollars. Oh my gosh. And then, so you get the daycare fraud. you get the Medicaid and Medicare fraud, and you've got, of course, her feeding the nation fraud, the guy who hosts her victory dinner and gives her money for her campaign.

He's one of the guys who's been convicted in all this. I mean, I can't believe it. I remember when Donald Trump said the other day, those things that he said about Somalians, and I do believe he referred to Ilhan Omar and her friends as garbage, and then all this comes out? Gosh, I guess he knew something, right?

For those of you that think I'm too close to the camera, please know if you're just joining, I'm on a boat. And occasionally the shot goes a little bit like that. And I have no choice. I have to be really close to the camera. So you got to see me, see me up close and personal. By the way, peace of my mind. Thank you for checking in on me. Some of you guys were worried.

You're like, where's Trish? Where did she go yesterday? Because you know I'm always here pretty much every single day. But I am on a boat. I am traveling with family. And I had some Wi-Fi connectivity issues. Mm-hmm. That happens now and then. Even though I'm on Elon Starlink, I'm going to have to send him a note. So we had some small issues, but I'm back. I'm back and thrilled to be here as we get ready to close out. As we close out the year, wow. I mean, 2025. My goodness, let me share with you what Representative Randy Find is saying out of Florida. Let's go to this because he's not taking any prisoners. Ilhan Omar, if he gets his way, she's going down, she's being kicked out of Congress. He said he's going to force the vote. Go, Randy. from the United States, and that's something that I'm working on.

But what prompted me to take this position is she decided to send around fundraising emails saying I should be expelled from Congress. Well, if that's her view, she should go for it. And so what I've said is if I'm going to try to expel her, it won't be in a fundraising email. She'll deal with it on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Okay. So I should add to that that he is, in fact, planning to do that. It looks like the feed got a little bit sticky for someone seeing that.

Apologies for that. Not sure why it got frozen. Can you hear me all right? They must not want me going after Ilhan this hard. Hopefully we start coming back, you guys, because that's a pain, I know. You're back and it's gone again, Defender the Truth. I'm so sorry. I guess I actually should have, you know what, I should have probably taped this,

and we should have done it that way. Hopefully this live feed will in fact manage to do okay. like I said, blame Elon. Elon, we're counting on you here with Starlink, and it's not good. It's not good when it's not happening for us, so that's kind of a bummer. But Ilhan Omar, it's really a bummer for you because I think that the reality is this. You are going to be out if, in fact, these allegations are proven to be true. Now, I'm sure she's smart enough.

I'm sure she's smart enough to have managed. Let's see. Are we coming back? Are we coming back? I'm sure she's smart enough to have managed to have, oh, shall we say, kept her fingerprints off this. But you got a pretty dedicated FBI there with one Cash Patel in the seat. And, you know, although I've been incredibly frustrated with Pam Bonding and continue to remain rather frustrated with her, I think that we have to hope that they're going to go and cross the eyes and dot the T's and get what they can done.

So it looks like, guys, we are still actually frozen. Unfortunately, perhaps the better answer today is for us not to do this live, but to actually try this in taped format. And I'll be with you a little bit later on here in the day. And tell me if I'm, okay, Defender of the Truth says we're back. So maybe we're back. Maybe we just went through a rough patch here in the Caribbean. What do you think?

Are we, just let me know if you can. I am actually looking at this in real time. I always do, but right now I'm really relying on you to see if we do have the feed or not. And if we don't, then we are going to – it looks like we're back. Okay. So, Congress is going to vote on whether or not Elon Omar gets to stay in. And what they're going to need in this case is more proof, of course,

that she somehow absolutely knew what was going down when she introduced feeding the nation, feeding our future, when she introduced that legislation on the day that she and Timmy got married, how much did she know was actually going to wind up going to fraudsters? Because that's what we had, a situation where all of this went to, you know, the people that should last be getting this money. And people are angry about it, understandably so. It's now gotten to the level where people are now calling for criminal charges against one Ilhan Omar, criminal charges. That's where we're at. Tom Emmer, he is the representative from Minnesota, the Republican representative, and he's like, you know what? This is unacceptable every other day. I keep hearing more and more and more about

fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud. And now he's suggesting that there should be criminal charges brought against Ilhan Omar. Now, I would say you're going to have to prove a lot out, right? Now, as she's smart, she's going to cover her bases and she's not going to have her fingerprints on this, But it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good when you're the one who introduces the bill. And then the guy who's hosting your victory dinner for your big victory lap after you win is the guy who's donating to your campaign and simultaneously making millions of dollars off of all this. When you've got your ex-campaign staffer who's involved in it and actually convicted,

that really doesn't look good. And I think that this is going to come back to haunt her. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, meanwhile, she's livid because there's all these daycares that weren't actually teaching kids or even housing kids or doing anything with kids. They were just centers of more fraud. So Linda McMahon is out there absolutely furious, calling Ilhan Omar as disingenuous, she said, as they come. Here's the quote that she spoke to the reporter from the New York Post on Saturday about. She said, Ilhan Omar is as disingenuous as they come.

She promises socialist policies while cashing in a taxpayer-funded paycheck and sitting on tens of millions of dollars. At least now we have an explanation for why. she's so out of touch with the priorities of hardworking every day, Minnesotans. Yeah, you know, she's not out of touch with their priorities. She's very much in touch with her priorities because it's Ilhan Omar and little Timmy, the new hubby. They're all that matters, okay? That's what matters to Ilhan.

Oh, and I guess keeping some of the donors that keep her campaign coffers and thus her husband's salary, don't forget, steady. Like, they matter too. but they're the guys that are the fraudsters. I mean, it's just, it's, I'm just saying this. Like, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. Okay, so you can't leave this one alone. You're going to have to keep digging and digging and digging.

And listen, what did Elon do? He found all kinds of fraud. And everybody was like, oh, you know, where'd he go? He's gone away. He could only actually buy law because the kinds of clearances he had only stay a certain amount of time. And so, yeah, sure, now he's gone. He's away. But this work is being carried on in a different fashion.

And they're finding all kinds of things. Here's the travesty, though. Think about this. They started finding this back in 2012, 2012, 2014, and there were a lot of alarm bells that went off, and there were a lot of whistleblowers that were like, hey, hey, hey, this does not seem right. We think that we've got all this fraud, and nobody did anything about it. So this has now reached a level where everybody's really concerned. Here's a Fox summary that kind of puts it in perspective. Six new indictments and one guilty plea were announced yesterday as federal agents executed a search warrant on ultimate home health services. a Somali-owned home care agency. The new indictment zeroes in on the autism program called early intensive developmental and behavioral intervention or EIDBI and zeroed in on housing stabilization programs. In the case of the housing stabilization programs, the assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson says, defendants claim to provide housing assistance to people with mental illness or drug and alcohol problems, and they say the defendant submitted claims, provided no

service. Thompson used the term fraud tourism, claiming two men from Philadelphia, Learned there was easy money in Minnesota, so they flew into the state, set up shop, and started billing the government. As far as defrauding the autism programs, Thompson introduced one new case of a defendant recruiting parents, getting bogus documents for a diagnosis of autism for the child. The parents would then get a kickback from the money intended to treat the autistic child. What we're seeing is programs that are just entirely fraudulent. These aren't companies that are providing some services but overbilling Medicare or Medicaid. These are companies that are providing essentially no services.

They're essentially shell companies created to defraud the program, created to submit on a wholesale level. Now, the housing stabilization program for one was created with a prediction it would cost $2.6 million annually. It ballooned to $21 million in 2021 and exploded to $104 million in 2024. All but a handful of the defendants thus far are part of the Minnesota-Somali community. Gosh, they're all part of the club. They're all one and the same and they are all part of the people that Donald Trump was so upset about that other day where they called them all kinds of things for saying what he did. By the way, hey, catcher, A.D., thank you so much. I always think of you guys, even on my vacation. We had a great day at the beach, by the way. I actually swim in the Caribbean Sea. I never do that. I never do that. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. So I had a great day. I stay swimming with the kids and everything, but I wanted to be here for you because this story's

been going and going and going and going. I mean, wow, like breaking all over Christmas more and more coming to us every day. And it's in part because, you know, the FBI is now taking this extremely seriously. You've got also the representative from Florida saying, I want this lady out and I'm going to launch a vote. And all of these allegations just keep piling up and up. I mean, here's the staffer. Okay, this is the guy who was her ex-staffer on her campaign. I guess he worked for her and Timmy, and he pled guilty.

He pled guilty, okay? So he was convicted and he pled guilty. And yet you get these idiots over there on CNN and the mainstream media that do not seem to understand or want to recognize reality. I mean, talking about talking your book, listen to this one, okay? This is the other night on CNN. And by the way, the story's been, remember,

out there since 2012, 2012, 2014, it came up again in 2018. Like, it's been bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, we just found out now, though. like, you know, you know what's really hit the fan, and it's bad, it's bad for Ilhan, it's bad for Timmy Waltz, it's bad for Timmy, the husband of Ilhan Omar, and it's bad for one Keith Ellison. All of them, okay? All of them are possibly going down with the ship, and yet you got CNN saying stuff like this? Isn't the American project supposed to be about treating people as individuals,

not as representatives of where they came from, about who their parents were or whatever, but about who they are and what they can individually contribute to this country. However, what Trump is doing there is basically saying, you are worthless if you come from a part of the world that he doesn't think has value. Is that really what we're doing in the United States of America? That's not true in America.

No, we in America we do treat people as individuals and appreciate them as individuals. It's one of the greatest things about this country. On the other hand, and I am no fan of Elon Omar, and she is in a lot of deep doo-doo now because she is very tangled in this billion-dollar Somali Medicaid fraud scandal in Minneapolis, and she may be touched by this. And, of course... I haven't seen any evidence of her being...

Well, I have. Except for her being Somali... Let me tell you why the second balance... Excuse me. There is evidence. This kind of rhetoric doesn't matter because the economy... Okay. Kevin, I love you. But we needed Betsy to take her down there.

Okay, so since Betsy didn't get a chance to do that, I'm just going to remind you that, yeah, there's all kinds of evidence. I mean, and this was already out there, but I guess if you're a CNN host, you don't want to, like, acknowledge these little things like evidence, the fact that the campaign staffer was one of the ones that pled guilty, convicted, pled guilty. Okay, CNN? So know your facts. Know the story before you get out.

and spout all this nonsense. I was sick of all of them. I mean, really, it's like they're on the Democrat Party payroll or something. They don't ever want to admit the truth. Okay, oh, we're picking on her because she's Somalia? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're picking on her because, you see, her ex-staffers involved. The people who were donating to her campaign are involved.

The guy who hosted her victory party at the whatever Safari restaurant, he's one of the ones that's also been convicted. So, you know, one plus one is last time. I checked too. Okay. In CNN, it's not like 252, but, you know, they don't want to admit any kind of reality, clearly. We do acknowledge reality here, and this is the reality of what we're looking at. And you know what? It's getting worse. It's getting worse for Ilhan Omar and her hubby, Timmy, not wallace the other one, because he's got this $30 million hoity tooty firm that he calls a private equity firm. And I don't know, because this is not looking like private equity to me.

this looks like political consulting, and he gets paid by Democrat campaigns to help consult and make suggestions, et cetera. In fact, he gets probably most of his money from Ilhan Omar's campaign. What do you know? He married the boss, and she pays her husband handsomely. So now as a result, she's gone from like $200,000 in net worth to, oh, apparently up to $30 million with this private equity firm. It's not a private equity firm. I mean, you're welcome to take a look at it. this thing, if you read it online, it really does sound like a political consulting op. And that would just suggest to me a very, very rich valuation for one political consulting up. Here we go. Oh, I love this. Let's see if we can get this. I told you it was going to be

topsy-turvy today. Okay. Ilhan Omar went from being, Ilhan Omar went from nearly broke to being worth up to 30 million in just a year. That's a pretty massive increase. At the same time, you have this $9 billion fraud scheme involving the entire Somali community in her district unfolding right under her nose. I mean, think about that. You're talking about 90, 90 now actual prosecutions and apparently people who have been charged there. This is enormous and this is extraordinary. And yes, like I said, you've got Tim Mayette.

My net. My net? My net. I'll hon can say, my net worth went up ever since I married Timmy and I decided to pay millions of dollars for running my campaign. Oh, like somebody should be looking into that too. Just saying. So now the question becomes, and I love the post because they could not have described her

better, the question becomes how much did they know was going on and were there any kickbacks involved? Like can we actually trace the money back to Ilhan and Timmy, my net? like mine at worth I wonder so I love the post because they said the Jimmy Chew wearing socialist

I was actually just in a Jimmy Chew shop the other day I had to buy some shoes for New Year's Eve and I found some nice ones on sale and I like them they're actually comfortable Jimmy Chews I actually wear a lot

of their heels because they're believe it or not comfortable if you get the right kind and I try to buy them on sale but I just found that funny that somehow Ilhan with her public servant job as wearing the Jimmy Chus, but you know, it's because she married MyNet, My Net, and her

My Net Worth went way up as a result. The Jimmy Choo wearing socialist introduced the Meals Act to Congress in 2020. Same day, you guys, same day as she announced her marriage to Timmy. Relaxing oversight of the government sponsors' children's meals program during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim several million dollars worth of meals without any kind of verification while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies. Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar's husband, political consultant Tim Minet, launched Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital firm in 2022. I mean, what kind of venture capital were they doing? Apparently, they launched this firm from a we work facility. And then he had a winery,

a winery that's supposed to be worth millions, right? Because they're not worths just one up to 30 million. and he's the big-time private equity investor. You know, by the way, they get what I call a fat cat deal on taxes because they only have to pay, what is it? They pay themselves a salary, kind of, it really is a salary. They get paid on their investments, but they pay way lower tax, way lower tax, and they'd be paying otherwise. So I wonder if there's a method to his madness,

and the reason that he's calling it a private equity firm is because he can cash in better than otherwise if it was just a political consulting firm. So he launches this thing, Rose Lake Capital, in 2020. and suddenly they are worth 30 million bucks. It's like, wow. I mean, I mean, she's wearing all the Jimmy Chews she can get her hands on now. So the thing is, like, he's been accused of fraud before. So if you look at this, again, this is a story coming to us from the Post, a pretty picture of the two of them. It says Omar's husband, Tim Mayette, has faced fraud allegations in the past related to

his winery venture. He apparently presented his wine venture as, like, like the real deal and this woman sued him because she's like I was on the hook for like having giving him all this, that and the other and it turns out it wasn't really a real deal. Oh, by the way, that one was also a we work address in D.C. You know, he's one of the people. He's one of the people. But Ilhan, she doesn't regret any of this. She doesn't regret that all her constituents are now in jail, apparently. She was asked the question. What a gal. Do you regret of pushing forward that bill the Meals Act? You think it led to the fraud?

Absolutely not. It did help feed kids. Maybe the Smalley Fraudsters kids. I don't know how many kids it was really feeding. I don't know how many daycare centers were actually taking care of kids in daycare. Now, there's a whole bunch, you see, that's coming out right now as we speak in real time. And part of it is due to the hard work. of some reporters, including some YouTube journalists,

that are doing the work that say the mainstream media and, oh, I don't know, 60 minutes wouldn't be able to do like this kid. He's 23 years old. And wow, he's blowing the lid off everything. I want you to watch. His name is Nick Shirley, okay, 23 years old, a YouTuber from Minnesota. And all he did was go through the rolls and like, look, okay, which daycare got this amount of money, which got that amount of money.

And let's go check up on these daycares, right? Let's see if anybody's working at these daycares. Let's see if they're taking care of any kids. And what he found is truly, utterly astounding. And I give him a lot of credit. 60 minutes. This is who you need, okay? Forget those reporters that want to re-edit Kamala to sound like she's got a brain.

Like, let's get the truth and only nothing but the truth. And I think you might get it from this kid. Take a listen. I don't care who you are. You don't belong here. I belong here, just like you belong here. Don't open up. It's ice. You do realize that there's supposed to be 99 children at here at this building, but there's no one here.

This is the child daycare center. 99 children. Paid $1.9 million this year in CCAP funding. Do you know where the children are? Were they kidnapped? They run away? Where are the children? This is state of Minnesota.

We here. And who are you? My name's Nick Shirley, ma'am. Yeah, so who are you with here? Oh, he's just been doing some research investigating the fraud that's. taking place here in Minnesota. Yeah, I'm with Nick Shirley. This lady, she's calling us ICE.

We're just trying to put law and order back in the streets of the United States. Good for him. Good for him. Good for him. So his name, Nick Shirley, he's out there hitting the streets, and he came out with this sort of documentary, if you would, over the holidays. And Cash Patel noticed. That would be the director of the FBI. And everybody's sitting there going, wait a second. How is it that this YouTuber?

careful with us YouTubers. Us YouTubers, you know, we're actually, dare I say, real, okay, as opposed to the facades that you see on TV, like the CNN lady I just showed you. So this YouTuber went out there and just knocked on some doors, and what he found really, really, really is astonishing. I want to go to this daycare again, where they can't even spell learning right. I also want to talk about what you saw in that little clip because it shows you a Minnesota lady who's like,

oh, their eyes, their eyes. The Minnesota people are so generous and so lovely and so wonderful. They remind me a lot, and probably many of them are from Sweden originally, but of the Swedes, right? Because Sweden has had a very similar problem with this infiltration of a Muslim population

that really does not see eye to eye with how the Swedes believe they should live their lives. And so thus the Swedish people, their generosity has been badly taken advantage of, and now you're seeing pushback. And as a result, the conservative movement has really swelled in places like Sweden. It's also happening in France, of course, in Italy and Germany as well.

But I think Sweden is a great example as it relates. It's a small place in many ways to Minnesota. And you see that woman out there accusing him of being ICE and then the look on her face when she realizes, he's like, hey, I'm just investigating this because there's no kids here at this daycare. And it gets better. So I want you to, he brings her seats. Let's watch. If fraud is taking place within the government and the Somali population. Here, this building alone, quality learning center, is a daycare, yet they spelled learning wrong. And they said, leering. This daycare alone in 2025 has received $1.9 million from the government.

The strange things about these child care centers is there's no one here right now. It's midday on a weekday. If you were to try to go inside, it's completely closed and the windows are all blacked out. No one's working midday children should be in here and this place is licensed for 99 children and this is the outside. There's no windows, no nothing. And like I said, they literally spelled the word wrong on their sign. This is open and blatant fraud taking place here inside of Minnesota. The government is complicit with this.

Unbelievable. Another report in the New York Post today shows that there are some security footage camera. videos that have just come out showing Somalians dropping their kids off like for a minute or two and then leaving and apparently the belief is is that cash is being exchanged they were getting kickbacks and I think they have that on camera as well so you have people getting paid to drop their kids off it's like the autism program right that we also heard about how could I forget that we talked about Medicare Medicaid we talked about feeding our future we talked about daycare and then there was the autism program where you could get a certain

amount of money for your kid if you said that they had autism. Imagine that. And then there were these fictitious programs that were being set up where they could collect all this government money. And so consequently, you look at the autism rate and it totally soars in the state of Minnesota. I mean, this is, this is bad. Okay, this is really, really, really, really bad. And this is really bad. I mean, this guy was nearly vice president. Think of that in the United States of America. Timmy Walsh, who was running the whole state. Okay. I almost said operation, but that's what it feels like. because if you're willing to look the other way, and I looked at video after video after video, and, you know, I'm dealing with limited resources here on a boat.

Otherwise, I'd show you some of them, but, you know, maybe we can do that tomorrow. I don't know how much you really want to watch Timmy Walsh with me, but he's just sitting there going, well, you know, it's so prejudice of people to say that. It's so prejudice to somehow suggest that, you know, they're involved in this fraud, but they had all the fraud. They had it on the books. They had accusations going back to 2012. You have whistleblowers from 2015. You have more coming for it in 2018.

And yet Tim, he's like, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. And somehow it's racist to even talk about it. I mean, my gosh, my gosh. It's not looking good for those Democrat Minnesota politicians. Elon Omar, Tim Walts, Attorney General Keith Ellison. We see a web of connections between them. And those directly involved in the fraud.

For example, Ilan Omar alleged enabling introducing the 2020 Meals Act, which was ultimately subject to fraud. He held a campaign victory party at the Safari restaurant. That's where one of the men who run that restaurant has associations to the convicted individuals. And then there's Tim Walts. House Oversight Investigation role in his role as governor. Or Keith Ellison, the Attorney General, his job is to enforce the law in Minnesota. But instead, he's getting donations after meeting with the feeding our future representatives,

the feeding our future, the biggest known yet part of this entire. fraud. I think we need some serious audits. Yeah. Okay, we need some audits, including you this guy that you see on the screen. MyNet. I'll never forget it now. That just hit me. It's my net. My net worth. You marry my net? Your net worth of your Ilhan Omar, like catapults from 200,000 to an estimated 30 million. Like, how can that be? Well, apparently somebody knows how to run the system? really, really, really well. Well, you know, we talked about this YouTuber, right? And I think this is great. So his name is Nick Shirley and he found these daycare centers that don't actually have anybody in them. And so what does Tim Walt say? Oh, well, these people are just more examples of,

all kinds of bad things. I guess he's referring to him as a white supremacist. I mean, just because he's like calling out, can you guys believe that? I mean, you understand how crazy this world is when if you just admit the truth because you know you think one plus one is actually two but tim waltz wants to tell you it's 228 and if you don't say it's 228 you're going to get labeled as a supremacist i mean that's pretty bad and people are getting tired of it tom emmer who is now calling for a possible criminal prosecution of ilhan omar he's had it he's sick of it and he's uh like you know what you can't just say things like that about people um it and by the way nick shirley himself let me see if i have this i think he was actually on fox just the other day and this was actually

brought up with him because he was uh he he did this show and i think we have it do we have it no we have tom we have tom emmer talking about nick shirley let's go to this well it's amazing to me that a 23-year-old journalist, a YouTuber, who's now got over 80 million views on this thing, found more in a matter of hours than Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, our attorney general, have found in seven years, Mike. Okay, but you know why that is?

Because the YouTuber actually went looking for it. Wals doesn't want to see this. Ilhan, she doesn't want to see this. Allison doesn't, they don't want to see this. You see, this hurts them because they have to be like, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Somalia, you know, you cannot win. Let's be honest. You are not going to win the state of Minnesota unless you win Minneapolis.

Well, guess who's in Minneapolis? The people that are running the fraud scheme. Oh, that's kind of a problem. Yeah, let's listen to that. I've got to tell you, we've known in Minnesota about the daycare fraud for a decade. Keith Ellison is our current attorney general. His predecessor, Lori Swanson, was actually investigating the daycare fraud and prosecuting back in 2017 and 18. As soon as Ellison became the Attorney General and Walls became the governor, all of that stopped.

And now you see the result. Billions of dollars, it has been alleged, that they have fraudulently built out of Minnesota. There was a housing stabilization program that was created in 2020. It's through the Medicaid program, a different one other than daycare. They spent 161 million. It was estimated it was going to be $2 million a year, Mike, from 2020. until they shut it down in October. It was $161 million.

This daycare fraud, there's one woman in particular who created a fake daycare and built $14 million on her own. This thing is huge. Tim Walz is absolutely singing a false song. And he's singing a song that's, shall we just say, badly out of tune as well, right? Tim Walse is on his way out, I would suspect.

I mean, if this guy gets elected after all, of this. You know what? There's no hope for them, okay? But you're going to have to figure out if you're the FBI, if you're DOJ, and I don't have an enormous amount of faith in Pam Bondi, as you might see if you go back to the show that we did on Christmas Eve. I lit it up pretty bad because I'm sick of it. I cannot stand that we have all of this like sitting right in front of us and I'm still like, hey, Pam, what's going on? How do we miss Jim Comey? How'd we miss Letitia James? I don't like this. Okay. so you know where I stand on that and I've got to hope that they're going to do a little bit better this time and at least we have done on da, duh, treasury involved, okay? So that's, Pam, I just, you know, I'm sorry,

like I gave her a lot of rope. I gave her a lot of room. I don't think she's the smartest person for the job. I think that she's very good on television. She does have the loyalty of the president and his best interest at heart. I just don't think that, you know, it's enough to get you there, like that and a cup of coffee. And that in five bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks or maybe not even a latte these days. But the point is that Pam isn't quite capable of doing what needs to be done in a very serious moment like this. So when I look at what's happening in Minnesota, I am encouraged, however, by the fact that we have the Treasury Department there. And the Treasury Department is taking this very seriously. Why are they taking it seriously?

Because there's the threat of terror financing going on. and that's a big, big deal. I'm going to get to that in a second, but first, quick shout out for one of our great sponsors here on the Trish Regan show. We are so lucky to have our wonderful sponsors, including our friends at Balance and Nature. I happen to take the fruits and veggies, and I get a lot of different fruits and vegetables every day, courtesy of balance and nature. You can get the whole health system, though, for 50% off right now.

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fruits and vegetables all those nutrients that help power our bodies and let's face it we can't all cook that much yours truly certainly not so I'm thankful for them and I encourage you guys to go check them out let's get to this terror financing concern that this is a big deal so the reason why many people believe that any which way you slice it the Minnesota fraud case is going to point back to terror in some way financing, illicit financing overseas is because of the way that community moves its money. I have done myself a lot of reporting. I've won a lot of rewards for this reporting on terror financing in Latin America, actually. I went down to a place called Ciad de Leste, Paraguay, where you have Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, all meeting. It's this lawless no-man's land.

and it turned out that the most money outside of Iran was going back to terror organizations in the Middle East, Hezbollah and Hamas, from this one little community. And it came out after my reporting that the Treasury Department cited those people I had also cited and profiled as known terrorist financiers. So in working on that story, and I worked on this quite a bit, well-eastern, over a year and a half, ultimately. What I learned was that there's something called the Huala system, and it's dominant in Middle Eastern communities, and that's how they move money. So they're not necessarily going to use Western Union

as much as they'll use the Huala system, where I give money to you who gives it to so-and-so, who gives it to so-and-so and so-and-so's got a trip back over to Somalia, and on the way, then they'll give it to the family member in Somalia that needs it. It moves more quickly than that, because I guess it's built on this sense of trust. you call so-and-so, who calls so-and-so, who calls so-and-so, who calls so-and-so, and gets the money to so-and-so, but it makes it actually very opaque and very difficult for our Treasury Department

to be able to piece together exactly where the money's going. But they can do it, they can do it. What they also know about these Huala systems is that there's some kind of money that's always taken effectively off the top for the bosses, okay? That would be, in this case, Oswebabab would be the terror organization they're most concerned about. So the fear here is that any which way you slice it, there was illicit activity in that if any money went overseas, and we know that the primary source, the primary economic source of funding in the state or country of Somalia, if you can call it a country, I sound like

Trump now, but if you can call it a country, where do they get their money? It's not from their own economy. It's all these remittances that are coming back from the United States. and many or most of them, it is now believed, were coming from Minnesota. There's concern about a community as well in Washington State. That's bubbling up right now. But at this particular moment, what the Treasury Department is looking at, and sources tell me they have some conviction here that this money went to bad places, maybe not intentionally.

It's not like people were saying, okay, and I'm going to give 10% to you know who. It's just that that's how it works. and it's sort of a tax that one pays in that particular Hulala system. So this came up recently on CBS News, the reporter who actually, I know her, we used to work together at CNBC, and she actually speaks fluent Arabic and has spent time in the Middle East and has studied a lot in the Middle East. And believe me, she knows this. She should know this anyway.

She really should know that the Treasury is going to come up with something. But watch her exchange with Besant, Scott Besant, Treasury. Secretary of the United States who I'm just telling you I have a lot of faith in him I don't have much faith in Pambandi but this guy is going to get the job done watch the president told you though this week to look into Somalis who quote ripped off that state for billions of dollars he said they contribute nothing what exactly are you investigating well martyr to be clear the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS for which I'm the acting commissioner is discovered by criminal investigations unit. This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota

decided we had to go in and clean up the mess for them. And this is part of the continued cleanup. A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud, including those who donated to the government, governor donated to represent Omar and donated to A.G. Ellison. but they've been transferred to something called MBSs. And those are... Mortgage-backed security. Sorry? Transferred to what?

These are money, the Bureau services, and they are... Money Bureau Services, okay? So you're talking about companies that would transmit wire funding overseas to get from point A to point B. But, and I'm not sure if he's getting into this, keep in mind, The Hawala system is the primary way that these people transfer this money because that's just culturally what has always been used. And culturally, you know, it's well known that there are illicit organizations that are taking a percentage. Higher transfer organizations that are outside the regulated banking system. And that money has gone overseas.

And we are tracking that both to the Middle East and to Somalia to see what the, uses of that have been. Okay. But you have no evidence of that money being used to fuel terrorism at this point, which is what some conservative writers are alleged. That's why it's an investigation. We started it last week. We'll see where it goes.

But I can tell you that, you know, it's terrible. You know, Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very the, you know, it was very tough to know how this money should be used. You know, she was gaslighting the

American people. Well, we'll talk to her. Yeah. But, you know, when you come to this country, you've got to learn which side of the road to drive on. You've got to learn to stop the stop signs. And you've got to learn the not to defraud the American people. Yeah, you'd think that they would learn that, right? But, you know, if you don't know, like, those kinds of basics, I'm sorry, we can't quite help you. That was another Timmy Woll's special. He was quoted recently, and I've played this for you guys. He was quoted saying, we have to do a better job teaching him. It's like, no, that's not our responsibility, okay? Like, you don't have that together,

then you really shouldn't be here. I'm sorry. But, you know, there's, there's like some basics that we kind of expect you arrive with, like some form of a moral code. So, you know, she's after him. Well, you don't have any proven fraud yet. And he's like, well, we just started.

I mean, they just started last week on this investigation. Believe me, they will have some. Here's City Journal reporting. A lot of what I just actually told. you there. Minnesota, they write, is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Wals alone. Democrat state officials overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country are asleep at the switch. I mean, are they? You know, that's being really generous. Or we could say maybe they knew damn well what was

going on. They just chose to look the other way. They did not want to hear it. That's what we're hearing actually from some whistleblowers that's come out through a state representative in the GOP who's saying, hey, she's heard from whistleblowers that they knew all about this and they just chose to ignore it. Why? Because this does not really work for them. It's really not that convenient when you need that population to be supporting you or else you're not going to win Minneapolis and without Minneapolis, you're not going to win Minnesota. It continues here. In many cases, the fraud has been allegedly perpetrated by members of Minnesota's rather sizable Somali community, federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia

where they ultimately landed in the hands of terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source puts it, the largest funder of al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer. How do you like that? Here's the big article. The largest funder of al-Shabaab in the world is the Minnesota taxpayer. Just outrageous. I mean, absolutely, absolutely outrageous, disgusting stuff. And you know what? We need to get to the bottom of this.

It's a lot of what I was just explaining to you. Again, bear with us here because I am traveling. But I wanted to make sure I was here with you guys for today's show. And you know me, I only like to do live. Do it live, baby, right? I don't like the tape stuff because it just doesn't feel as authentic and genuine and it's exciting. Plus, I'm a perfectionist. So I might just go back and edit it and edit and edit.

I don't want to do that to myself or to you because, you know, this is news and we've got to get it on. So we'll deal with the imperfections, or at least I will. And I appreciate your willingness to deal with them here and there as well. Here we're looking at the City Journal. again, they're talking about the Somali fraud rings that have sent huge, huge remittances or money transfers from Minnesota to Somalia. According to reports an estimate of 40% of households in Somalia get remittances from abroad. In 2003 alone, the Somalia, effectively the mafia, they sent back $1.7 billion, the Somalian community, we should say, which feels a little mafioso right now.

Somebody brought up a really interesting question the other day, which is remember that Somalia, state representative that was trying to get the health care, basically squash. She didn't want all this money going for health care in Somalia. And she was gunned down. And a lot of people are asking questions about, did that have anything to do with anything that we're looking at here? I don't know the answer to that. But it's an interesting thing that probably one should spend some time on, including myself. So we'll shelve that today.

I don't like to be too out in advance. I do want to look at that, though, and be able to report back to you with some, cold hard facts as to whether or not there's belief for any kind of connection. Our investigation, they write in the city journal, reveals it for the first time. Some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination. The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Minnesota's Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of Hualas.

This is exactly what I was explaining to you, because this is how it works. I'm telling you, I've done enough. terror financing investigations in the course of my career i've won enough awards for this i know a lot about this and these guys are spot on so these hollas which are informal clan-based money traders they have wound up in the coffers of al shab okay so this is the al qaeda linked isis group i mean bad bad bad stuff and we need this examined mucho pronto i realize treasury is working on it I will say I have a lot of faith, a lot of faith, Inbescent, and his team. And I know that Treasury has looked into these things for years because I've worked with them many times over the years,

including both parties, okay, to look at what exactly has been going on with some of these Hawalas. And so this is what they're going to focus on right now. Now, it makes it harder to figure out whether Ilhan Omar is directly related because, again, there's not a lot of electronic proof. There's not a lot of handwritten proof. It's not like it's going through city bank or something, right? You can't say, oh, there's the money. I mean, in some cases, yes. And in fact, in some of my reporting, we actually found money that had gone through some rather prominent banks in New York. And so we were able to say, oh, okay, there you go. But again, a lot of it goes through these Hawala networks. And that's what Treasury is now looking into to try and figure

out whether or not Ilhan Omar had any knowledge, whether Keith Ellison had any knowledge, and whether Tim Wals had any knowledge. I would just have to go back to, you know, they looked the other way. And that in and of itself is a huge, huge, huge problem. I'm glad we got the link back up, you guys. It's important to me. I do enjoy going live. I like to be able to see you and talk to you in real time. I'm going to just bring up some of your comments here as I look at what your reaction is to all of this. I'm glad that we were able to get the feedback here alive and well. Elon Mosque, thank you for that because I'm using Starlink out in the middle of the sea here. But what? We have no audio? You don't have any audio? Is that true? Don't tell me that. No, you've got some

audio. I see it. Maybe the audio was not flying on one of the sound bites. That would be unfortunate. But hopefully we're okay now. It's been a little challenging, yes. And maybe the answer is, We're going to maybe take a little break tomorrow and I'll be coming back with you here in the new year. Unless we get a good signal. If I get a good signal, I'm here. You know that. If the Wi-Fi is alive and while you have Wi-Fi, I will deliver. But I'm having a blast because I'm here with my whole family and it's really, really wonderful to spend time with them and to be able to spend time with you guys as well and to be able to do this show and to report on such an important story.

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I was at the beach today, Cat Crazy Sam, and I did see an adorable dog that reminded me of my dog. So, of course, I got dog homesick as soon as I saw him. My sister's with me, and she looked at me, and she goes, tell me, honestly, do you miss your dog? And I'm like, yes, honestly. And she's like, really, really. And I'm like, honestly, I miss my dog.

And she said, I'm exactly the same way. She has two dogs. And she's like, I miss them terribly. They are members of your family, right? They totally are. So I miss my dog, but I've got my kids and I've got my husband and my parents and my sister and her husband. So other than that, we're good. We just wish we had the dogs.

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