December 29, 2025 • 35 mins
James T. Harris fills in for Jesse covering what's going on with all the fraud in Minnesota and it's happening in other places to. YouTuber Nick Shirley breaking Somali fraud examples at daycare centers in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly show. You are listening to
the Jesse Kelly Show. My name is James T. Harris.
I am a talk show host out of Phoenix, Arizona.
Happy to be sitting in for Jesse Kelly. You know
I'm been getting close to the end of the year.
It's time for Americans to start making those New year resolutions. Well,
(00:34):
I have a resolution for every American and let me
kind of slow this down because this is one of those.
What we're facing is one of the greatest scams we've
ever seen in this country. It's coming out to Minnesota,
but we know that it is in other cities as well,
probably every major city in this country. And it's the
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hardworking people of America that are feeling the brunt of this.
Americans are the hardest working people in the world period.
Americans work longer hours, we take fewer vacations, we retire later,
and somehow we're told this is freedom. Our New Year's
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resolution this year is to stop being patsy's, to stop
being pawns, to stop being tools. Here's what we're finding out.
And we've known this for a long time, but it
now it just becomes so blatantly obvious, and the left
is just so egregious. Here's how the con works. You
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get up early, you my friends listening to the Jesse
Kelly Show. You go to work, You produce, you build something,
you serve someone, and before you ever see your paycheck,
the government already has its hand in your pocket. Income tax, pay,
(02:00):
road tax, social Security tax, Medicare tax. Then you get
what's left, and the government isn't done with you yet. No, No,
You buy groceries, well, there's a sales tax. You put
gas in your car. There's a gas tax, federal and state.
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You own a home, but you got property tax every
single year, even though you already bought the house. You
own a car, registration fees, license fees, inspection fees, you invest,
capital gains tax, you die at state tax. By the
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time you are done living your life, half your labor
is gone. And what do you get for it. Well,
you get open borders, you get homeless camps, you get
criminals released without bail. You get schools that can't teach reading.
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But somehow, somehow have the time for gender ideology. Roads
and never get fixed. We have vets sleeping on the street.
But here's where the scam really becomes insulting. That money,
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that money that is being you know, taken from you
in taxes, it's not staying here. It's being shipped overseas,
shipped to to to what criminals, to terrorists. That money
that is being taken from you, it is going to
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foreign citizens, foreigners who are buying luxury automobiles, taking vacations.
That money, it's feeding the entire world, but none of
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it is for you. What we're seeing in Minnesota is
so eye opening, so jarring, so shocking, so fraudulent, so corrupt.
Billions to countries that hate US, Billions to countries that
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lecture US, Billions to countries that laugh at us. We're
told as foreign aid or humanitarian assistance, or our responsibility
as a global leader, what are we seeing? What are
we paying for? When was the last time we had, say,
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Germany paid to a fixed homelessness in Phoenix, in my hometown.
When did that happen? When was the last time we
have friends, you know, help secure the border. Do we
have Kuwait help American veterans? See? This is what's absolutely ridiculous.
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We spent billions of dollars to the Ukraine to help
secure their border, didn't we As a matter of fact, Ukraine,
from its fire departments to his schools, through his businesses,
they all existing because of taxpayers in the United States
of America. When have they ever done anything from us?
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They never have. This is the one way relationship. America pays.
Everyone else cashes the check. Let me say that again.
This is one way America pays. We're the ones that
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are sending money all over the free world. Oh something
goes wrong in Haiti, America has to help out. Oh
something goes wrong anywhere. America is helping out your money,
your tax paion dollars. Oh yes, yes, we have liberals,
we have conservatives. Oh they'll just freely send money. Oh
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we'll send money to Israel. Oh we'll send money to
what And when you dare dare to ask a question,
what are you call? You're called selfish, You're called ignorant,
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You're called unpatriotic. You have absolutely no heart, you you
are you are cold? How can you be like this?
You need to help people. This money helps people. Got
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to do something for the poll people, We as Americans,
we got to do something for the poll. It always
goes that way, doesn't it. We as Americans got to
do something for the poe. Meanwhile, meanwhile, look what they're
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doing to us in our schools. This is why they're
able to scam us. This is why we need to
have a new Year's resolution that we no longer put
up with this, We no longer be a patsy. Ask
yourself this question. Why didn't you learn about taxes in
high school? How come that wasn't a course? I mean,
taxes are so ubiquitous, they were everywhere. How come we're
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never taught how to deal with them? Why do we
learn how to budget? How come we never learn to
balance a check your book in high school? When did
you learn personal finances? Where did you learn personal fancer finances?
Did you? I'll tell you why? Because the United States
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of America, the government of powers that be, they want
us to be patsy. Is because an informed citizen is
dangerous to an all out of control government. Our government
is out of control, and if our citizens were informed,
we wouldn't put up with it. You can look at
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what's happening right now, Look at them, Look at if
you're not aware, a major scandal has broken out, I
mean been exposed in Minnesota, major shockingly bad scandal, the
worst scandal, welfare scandal in America's history, but most Americans
don't know about it because the media is not reporting
on it. More on that in a moment, if people
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actually understood how much was being taken from them and
how little they were getting in return, this system would
collapse overnight. If people had to pay taxes, and you know,
you know, when the bill comes to you write a
check or put it on a credit card, instead of
having the money just taken little bit by little bit
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out of every paycheck, there would be a revolt. What
happens is that, well, instead, they keep you busy, They
keep us distracted, to keep us divided, fighting culture wars
that they create while quietly emptying our wallet. And they've
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got the nerve to tell you that this is the
American dream. Work, hard, vacation once or twice a year. Now.
The American dream used to be owning your labor, owning
your home, owning your future, owning your car, being able
to get a car. Now we're the world's what automatoms.
(10:08):
We're the words little worker bees, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy,
produce more, pay more, ask fewer questions, I'm tired of
Americans being financially oppressed by the very government that claims
to represent our New Year's resolution this year to finally
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say no, no more, not gonna do it. M m mmmmmmm.
That's the moment that this whole illusion of freedom comes
crashing down around them. I say, bring it all down,
and I'm gonna tell you why. I'm gonna tell you why.
James T. Harris sitting in for Jesse Kelly. Jesse Kelly,
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you are listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. My name
is James T. Harris. I am a talk show host
out of a Phoenix, Arizona. My show to Conservative Circus
can be heard Monday through Friday, six am to ten
am on the free iHeartRadio app. You can also follow
me on all my socials by going to my main
website at James T. Harris dot com. Make sure you
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hit the Clarity Report listen. What is the reason why
I am so worked up right out of the box
sitting in for Jesse Kelly is because a major fraud
has been exposed to the world, and it did not
come from the New York Times or CNN. It did
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not come from the Washington Post. To Wall Street Journal.
Didn't come from ms NOW, BBC News, CBS News. It
didn't come from Bloomberg. Didn't come from NBCCNBCAP, The Guardian. No,
it didn't come from Fox News. It didn't come from
News Nation. It didn't come from Newsmax. It came from
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a twenty three year old kid with a YouTube channel.
He and his partner, a guy named David, who actually
has been doing the research for years, simply had an
iPhone and a list of of daycares and agencies that
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Somalians had opened up in Minnesota over the last I
don't know ten or so years. Daycare sinners bilking the
taxpayers for millions of dollars millions of dollars a year,
supposed to be taking care of children. When you go
to the site, it's an empty lot, blacked out windows,
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no children. And one day they went to one daycare
after another daycare after another daycare, meeting Somalis who were
becoming increasingly hostile, only to find nobody there. Major scam.
I think over one hundred million dollars they exposed in
that one video. Wait a minute, you mean to tell
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me all that is happening and it's been going on
for years, and these major news organizations they didn't you
bust the story. Where's sixty minutes? Where are the investigative reporters?
No Representative Tom Emmer out of Minnesota talked about how
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Nick Shirley found more fraudan one day than the Attorney general,
the governor, and all the news agencies combined.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Emmer is the House Majority a whip and here to
comment on all of this. An incredible story here breaking.
As Bill noted, this has gone viral. Nick Shirley's reporting.
He got out there and he did, you know, the
old fashioned legwork. He walked the walk, he asked questions,
and he revealed some fascinating stuff and as many people
have said, potentially at the tip of the iceberg here.
(14:02):
I want to get your thoughts on his reporting and
what's been exposed here.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, great to be with you, Molly. I mean, look
this young journalist, Nick Shirley goes out there and finds
more evidence of fraud in one day than Tim Walls
and our Attorney General Keith Ellison have found in seven years.
Why did he find it because he looked for it, Molly,
While Tim Walls and Keith Ellison had been looking the
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other way. Billions of dollars have been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers.
You've got the childcare centers. They showed you there's eighty
autism centers that are under investigation. There was a housing
stabilization program that was created in twenty twenty. They estimated
it was going to run about two million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Molly.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
They shut it down in October because of it was
rife with fraud and they'd already sucked out over one
hundred and sixty million dollars. The US Attorney's office here
in Minnesota estimates this fraud could actually reach nine billion
dollars before the investigation is all over nine.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Billion dollars before the investigation is over nine billion dollars.
The Attorney General, Keith Ellerson, the Governor Tim Walls, they
looked the other way. They looked you just had to
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be purposeful, right. They looked the other way. How can
you have all of this frog going on in your
state and you don't know, you don't listen. This is
I mean, this is corruption. They were emboden. They didn't
think they have to be concerned about this. Wait a minute,
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you had Kamala Harris choose Walls to be her running
and made for the presidency. That's how confident in cocky
they were. Did she say this is the tip of
the iceberg? Did he say this could be nine billion
dollars in Minnesota alone?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And we've got two major issues going on in addition
to just the fraud. One millions of dollars of this
fraud has been shipped back to Somalia to a known
terrorist group, Al Jabab. And two we've got all kinds
of whistlebw blowers now that are coming forward and if
what they're saying is real and can be documented, and
what they're saying is they told Tim Walls about the
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fraud when it was happening, and he not only ignored them,
he retaliated against him. I'm telling you, Molly, if that's
accurate and it can be proven, Tim Walls needs to
be held accountable. Everybody in his administration needs to be
held accountable. This guy now is scrambling to make it
look like he's doing something not doing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
If they can prove that it's true, if they could
prove that it is true, he needs to be prosecuted.
What are you talking about. He doesn't need to step down.
He doesn't need to retire, he needs to be prosecuted.
Have you noticed there has been a lack of purp walks.
We're almost a year into the president's first term or
second term. Who's done the purp walk? Where's the purp walk?
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Now you have this massive fraud in Minnesota. Who will
be held to account? See that's part of the New
Year's resolution of stop being a patsy. We need to
demand that there is an accounting for this. We're going
to hear a little bit of this video that now
has over one hundred million views. Coming up next to
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jameson Gerris sitting in for the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
You are listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. My name
is James T. Harris. I am a talk show host
out of the Valley of the Sun in Arizona. You
can catch my show five ft KFYI in Phoenix, seven
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social media's and the Clarity Report. Who is Nick Shirley. Well,
he's a YouTuber, a YouTuber and he got a hold
of some folks that were really looking into the to
the fraud. He was astounded by the fraud. And this
is nothing new. This has been reported on for years,
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you know, as you just heard on the Fox News clip,
they had whistleblowers to come forward, they got turned away,
they got threatened. I have a friend who's a radio
talk show host in Minneapolis, John Justice. He was telling me, Yeah,
there are a lot of people who are very well versed,
even more verse than this kid. Surely, but Sureley had
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the platform and when he put it out there, it
simply exploded. There are over one hundred million views of
his video where he's going around in one day exposing
exposing over one hundred million dollars in fraud in plane view.
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Over one hundred million views of this video. That's more
than every news agency is put together with what they're
getting aspired viewership. Corporate media is dead. They're dead. They're
a facade. When you have somebody who has integrity and
is speaking the truth, look at what happens, and look
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at what happens when you don't have the federal government
suppressing information. I mean if this would have been three
or four years ago, this is probably why we didn't
find out about it, because once they tried to report it,
you had the very same Democrats that watched this happen,
that let this happen. They were suppressing information. You tell
the truth about COVID, you were shut down, deep platformed.
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What if you talked about the fraud that was the
twenty twenty election, you got deep platform shut down. What
thanks to Elon Musk. I mean this thing. You have
a free avenue, and look what happens when you get
truthful reporting put on that platform, It goes viral beyond viral.
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A forty two minute video of this young man and
his crew exposing Minnesota fraud. This might be the most
important workout there yet. It uncovered the most massive fraud
in Amrocus history. And here is just a minute or
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two of this young man with this David, who is
an older gentleman who's done the research, going around and
boldly knocking on doors trying to get information from these
Somalians who opened up these fraud businesses.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Hello, we'd like to ask where's the money's going? Oh,
do you guys think about the fraud that's taking place
here in Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I don't think anybody is enabling fad to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Hold Governor Walls accountable for this.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What was.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Six million?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
What was that money?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Any kids answer the question? Are their children?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
There's no children inside this building. Potentially the largest fraud
scandal in US history is taking place in Minnesota, as
literally billions of dollars have been funneled through Somali ran
fraudulent businesses, so much fraud it could actually almost replace
the entire GDP of Somalia. These fraudsters have worked hand
in hand with the Minnesota government as they enabled billions
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of dollars to be given to fraudulent businesses underneath welfare purposes.
Some of this money eventually landed in the hands of
terrorist groups in Somalia like the Al Shabab and others
enriched themselves all at the US taxpayers expense. And in
this video, we will break down on all of the
fraud from start to finish, from going to the fraudulent
businesses and confronting the people who are making millions of
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dollars from the government, and we will also be confronting
the incompetent government leaders who let this fraud happen. And
to make this happen, I met up with a man
who's been doing his own investigation for years now, as
he has seen the fraud firsthand.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You see, here's the deal, here's the problem with this.
I could tell already you know this, this young kid,
he doesn't have the proper you know, evening news voice,
this verb R reporting or fraud. He doesn't have that.
He's just a kid, you know, just just putting it
out there. They don't have the graphics. Dun, dun, dun, dun.
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They don't have any of that. He just turns on
the camera, starts talking and showing you, you know, trying
to get some information in how he is received by
these hostile somalies is incredible. And they're showing you the PaperWorks. Oh,
they do put up some graphics straightforward. He's just out there.
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And then he one of the guy that's working with David.
He's the guy who actually put together years of research,
years of observations of these fraudulent daycare centers. His name
is David.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Let's get into this and be prepared to be shocked.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How deep is this fraud? Here inside of Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
It is far worse than anybody can imagine. You heard
it's seven to ten billion and maybe more. And now
the numbers have been revised and put out there publicly
that they think it's more like eight billion. How I
got involved is that where my office is here in Minneapolis,
I'm sort of in the heart of all of this fraud.
And I would see these childcare centers. I said, well,
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there are any kids there. It's the middle of the day,
and all I see are a couple of guys standing
out front smoking. And then I'd go buy another daycare
and I'd see the same thing. I said, well, where
do these kids playing? So I started to go online
and look, and I say, this places license for eighty children.
They had zero children. Every time I went by there,
they never had a single child there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So his business is in the heart of this madness.
He's noticing it. What was going on here? You only
some ally saw you smoking cigarettes. Stuff. They're supposed to
be it's supposed to be daycare. There are no children.
Wait a minute, so he starts to put together information
notice not a news bureau, not a government agency, but oversight,
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a regular businessman who was like, I'm surrounded by this.
What in the hellifax is going on? So he puts
together these reports. Is this documentation? I mean, this is incredible,
and we know we're gonna get it a little bit
further and show we are because this was this wasn't negligent,
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This was being done on purpose. This was purposeful. This
is a raping of the American taxpayer. And this isn't
just happening in Minneapolis. This is systematic. Breathe, breathe. What
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we are witnessing is a Democrat Ponzi scheme. Oh, James,
here you are Democrats. Democrat be thy name. Billions of
dollars being funneled through. You can connect the dots and
here's what's just making my head just goes. Just spend.
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Oh we heard from cash, but tell that there were
some investigations going on during the Body administration. They knew
exactly what was going on, but they didn't do anything
about it. And you know what, the people of Minnesota,
the government of Minnesota, they're not going to do it
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thing about it. They're the ones that were perpetuating it.
It's not going to change until we the people decide,
you know what, we we are not going to allow
this to happen. The first thing that the Trump administration
should do is shut off all the money federal funds
flowing into Minnesota. I'm sorry, Well, what about the people? Then?
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What about the people that needed? Where were they? Where
were the people supposed to be watching out for them?
They notice how the Somalians they used the children, Oh,
the children of feeding the poor, the children, Oh this
is for autism, the children. They use our children as
a shield as they rip us off for billions. And
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I want to know how they got away with this.
Coming up next, you're gonna hear from a TSA whistleblower.
I love ta TSA for people. They shake you, they
fill you up. Meanwhile, you got Somali is going through
the border with millions of dollars with no questions being asked.
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James T. Harris sitting in for the Jesse Kelly Show.
Jesse Kelly returns next. You are listening to the Jesse
Kelly Show. My name is James T. Harris. I am
a talk to host out of Phoenix, Arizonta. My show
to Conservative Circus can be heard of Monday through Friday,
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six am to ten am on the Free iHeartRadio w app.
You can follow me on social by going to James
Tarris dot com and you hit the social buttons, especially
the clarity report. Oh, we have clarity now on what's
happening in Minnesota, and they're telling us there's more to come.
But how about this. You have a former TSA agent
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who recalled millions of cash flying out of Minneapolis into
Minneapolis airport to Somalia millions. Now, for a while I thought,
you know, you can't take money, You can't take that
much money on a plane. But actually you can. And
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the TSA they don't limit you how much money you
could take. You could take ten thousand dollars. You have
to declare it anything go over ten thousand dollars to
the customs. Right, these cats have suitcases full of millions
of dollars. Don't you think that would be suspicious? We're
gonna flag you. Where is this money? Is this legitimate?
How that you? Oh, we want this money on the
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stock market. No, you didn't. That's what the elon sorry
ilin Omar was trying to say. Now, she was broke
four or five years ago. Now she's worth twenty or
thirty million dollars. That's because she went to the Hillary
Clinton school the finance right right. Her husband was broke too, No,
not the brother, the white dude, the white dude she married. Yes, yeah,
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and he was broke. Now he's got a company worth
you know, millions of dollars. How does that work? One thousand,
I should say one million dollars and one hundred dollar bills.
Weighs about twenty two pounds. I looked it up and
it takes up some serious space. No, you're at risk
playing with that kind of money. You know, you could
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get scammed, you could get robbed. These people didn't be
They didn't seem to concern with the why. It seems
like that they had access, that they had passage, that
they had protect.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sed suitcases filled with millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Of cash, and the couriers were always smalling, meant traveling
in pairs, and they got through the checkpoint and it
just it just really absolutely blew my mind.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
The first time you open a suitcase and you see
millions of dollars of.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Cash, and typically what would happen is LEO law enforcement
officer would come check their credentials. I don't know what
kind of questions they asked them, but their ideas were
always documented, and probably they're plane tickets as well. So
there is a trail of that out there. And I
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would believe with all the cameras at the airport that
if they started there, they could probably find each and
every individual that brought money through the checkpoint.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You think, so, you think they'd be able to do that? Well?
She noticed, She says, with all the cameras out there,
imagine if they wanted to, they'd be able to identify
every person that brought money through the checkpoint. Of course
they could, of course they could, but they didn't. Why
with all the technology that exists, and especially you have
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Somali men walking up with suitcases with a million dollars
and they're opening it up. Hey, oh let me check
your idea. Okay, carry on and nothing nothing. I'll tell
you what, even though it's legal, let me see, you
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put one hundred thousand dollars in a suitcase and then
try to jump on the plane and go to maybe
Vegas by some point. Do you think you would get scrutinized?
Do you think? Oh? I bet you would? Why because
you're a rube a meaning an American. See see see
if you had an accent and had more melon in
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your skin head. Carry on, see if you were a
foreigner coming up here, you know, without any type of
identification or anything. Oh, we just come on across and
the American government will give you a backpack, give you
a debit card with ten thousand dollars on it, and
give you a free ride to anywhere in the country
you want to go. Rube. This should not surprise us.
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But this shouldn't raide you. This should enrage you former
TSA agent just sitting here spilling a tea.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
It seems suspicious, if not alarming, given what seems to
be a pattern here. So you're talking about millions of
dollars flying out of Minneapolis, and you think it happened
about every week or so, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
So it certainly seemed like it happened every week. Yeah,
The suitcases came in and it was it was always
the m a was always too Smallian men traveling in pairs.
Sometimes they both had suitcases.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And so the process was as a as a TSA agent,
we would pull the bag and then we'd bring them
to a private.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Screening room and we would open the suitcase and make
sure that that's all it was was stacks of cash.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, make sure it wasn't any drugs, you know, anything
something legal like that. Just make sure there was like
a million dollars in cash. As long was the billion
dollars the cash, you could.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And a LEO would come and maybe question them and
for sure take a picture of their identification.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
And I'm assuming they're playing tickets. There is a trail
out there.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Of course there's a trail out there. Oh, I'm sorry,
this is so utterly ridiculous. Oh, I have a question
for you. Have you heard this tsa whistleblower. Have you
heard her on MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, Fox
News News Day. Have you seen this before? I heard
this before? You have it? You mean tell me you're
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getting new information from the Jesse Kelly Show, from old
regular old talk show folks. This is the power of
the new media. Again. You can find this on x Yes, yes,
it was posted yesterday, actually two days ago. The whistle
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blower DSA telling you everything that was going this was
being done in plain sight. This was being done to you,
to us by a fraudulent federal government, a fraudulent state government.
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There's nobody out there who voted for this. Oh, you
know what, I want to go to work for an
extra hour or so I can help some fraudulenta Somali
woman with a bogus of the daycare center, you know,
just breaking more of my ardor and cash. Nobody nobody's
saying that nobody's voting for this, So it begs the question.
(34:41):
I know I'm gonna make some folks uncomfortable with this,
but at the top of the hour, I'm gonna ask
some questions about paying BONDI I'm gonna ask some questions
about cash. But tell the FBI where are they? Where
are they? James T. Harris my friends, sitting in for
the Jesse Kelly Show.
This is a Jesse Kelly show. You are listening to
the Jesse Kelly Show. My name is James T. Harris.
I am a talk show host out of Phoenix, Arizona.
Happy to be sitting in for Jesse Kelly. You know
I'm been getting close to the end of the year.
It's time for Americans to start making those New year resolutions. Well,
(00:34):
I have a resolution for every American and let me
kind of slow this down because this is one of those.
What we're facing is one of the greatest scams we've
ever seen in this country. It's coming out to Minnesota,
but we know that it is in other cities as well,
probably every major city in this country. And it's the
(00:57):
hardworking people of America that are feeling the brunt of this.
Americans are the hardest working people in the world period.
Americans work longer hours, we take fewer vacations, we retire later,
and somehow we're told this is freedom. Our New Year's
(01:18):
resolution this year is to stop being patsy's, to stop
being pawns, to stop being tools. Here's what we're finding out.
And we've known this for a long time, but it
now it just becomes so blatantly obvious, and the left
is just so egregious. Here's how the con works. You
(01:39):
get up early, you my friends listening to the Jesse
Kelly Show. You go to work, You produce, you build something,
you serve someone, and before you ever see your paycheck,
the government already has its hand in your pocket. Income tax, pay,
(02:00):
road tax, social Security tax, Medicare tax. Then you get
what's left, and the government isn't done with you yet. No, No,
You buy groceries, well, there's a sales tax. You put
gas in your car. There's a gas tax, federal and state.
(02:20):
You own a home, but you got property tax every
single year, even though you already bought the house. You
own a car, registration fees, license fees, inspection fees, you invest,
capital gains tax, you die at state tax. By the
(02:43):
time you are done living your life, half your labor
is gone. And what do you get for it. Well,
you get open borders, you get homeless camps, you get
criminals released without bail. You get schools that can't teach reading.
(03:05):
But somehow, somehow have the time for gender ideology. Roads
and never get fixed. We have vets sleeping on the street.
But here's where the scam really becomes insulting. That money,
(03:27):
that money that is being you know, taken from you
in taxes, it's not staying here. It's being shipped overseas,
shipped to to to what criminals, to terrorists. That money
that is being taken from you, it is going to
(03:48):
foreign citizens, foreigners who are buying luxury automobiles, taking vacations.
That money, it's feeding the entire world, but none of
(04:09):
it is for you. What we're seeing in Minnesota is
so eye opening, so jarring, so shocking, so fraudulent, so corrupt.
Billions to countries that hate US, Billions to countries that
(04:30):
lecture US, Billions to countries that laugh at us. We're
told as foreign aid or humanitarian assistance, or our responsibility
as a global leader, what are we seeing? What are
we paying for? When was the last time we had, say,
(04:53):
Germany paid to a fixed homelessness in Phoenix, in my hometown.
When did that happen? When was the last time we
have friends, you know, help secure the border. Do we
have Kuwait help American veterans? See? This is what's absolutely ridiculous.
(05:15):
We spent billions of dollars to the Ukraine to help
secure their border, didn't we As a matter of fact, Ukraine,
from its fire departments to his schools, through his businesses,
they all existing because of taxpayers in the United States
of America. When have they ever done anything from us?
(05:36):
They never have. This is the one way relationship. America pays.
Everyone else cashes the check. Let me say that again.
This is one way America pays. We're the ones that
(05:59):
are sending money all over the free world. Oh something
goes wrong in Haiti, America has to help out. Oh
something goes wrong anywhere. America is helping out your money,
your tax paion dollars. Oh yes, yes, we have liberals,
we have conservatives. Oh they'll just freely send money. Oh
(06:20):
we'll send money to Israel. Oh we'll send money to
what And when you dare dare to ask a question,
what are you call? You're called selfish, You're called ignorant,
(06:42):
You're called unpatriotic. You have absolutely no heart, you you
are you are cold? How can you be like this?
You need to help people. This money helps people. Got
(07:02):
to do something for the poll people, We as Americans,
we got to do something for the poll. It always
goes that way, doesn't it. We as Americans got to
do something for the poe. Meanwhile, meanwhile, look what they're
(07:23):
doing to us in our schools. This is why they're
able to scam us. This is why we need to
have a new Year's resolution that we no longer put
up with this, We no longer be a patsy. Ask
yourself this question. Why didn't you learn about taxes in
high school? How come that wasn't a course? I mean,
taxes are so ubiquitous, they were everywhere. How come we're
(07:46):
never taught how to deal with them? Why do we
learn how to budget? How come we never learn to
balance a check your book in high school? When did
you learn personal finances? Where did you learn personal fancer finances?
Did you? I'll tell you why? Because the United States
(08:10):
of America, the government of powers that be, they want
us to be patsy. Is because an informed citizen is
dangerous to an all out of control government. Our government
is out of control, and if our citizens were informed,
we wouldn't put up with it. You can look at
(08:32):
what's happening right now, Look at them, Look at if
you're not aware, a major scandal has broken out, I
mean been exposed in Minnesota, major shockingly bad scandal, the
worst scandal, welfare scandal in America's history, but most Americans
don't know about it because the media is not reporting
on it. More on that in a moment, if people
(08:56):
actually understood how much was being taken from them and
how little they were getting in return, this system would
collapse overnight. If people had to pay taxes, and you know,
you know, when the bill comes to you write a
check or put it on a credit card, instead of
having the money just taken little bit by little bit
(09:19):
out of every paycheck, there would be a revolt. What
happens is that, well, instead, they keep you busy, They
keep us distracted, to keep us divided, fighting culture wars
that they create while quietly emptying our wallet. And they've
(09:44):
got the nerve to tell you that this is the
American dream. Work, hard, vacation once or twice a year. Now.
The American dream used to be owning your labor, owning
your home, owning your future, owning your car, being able
to get a car. Now we're the world's what automatoms.
(10:08):
We're the words little worker bees, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy,
produce more, pay more, ask fewer questions, I'm tired of
Americans being financially oppressed by the very government that claims
to represent our New Year's resolution this year to finally
(10:35):
say no, no more, not gonna do it. M m mmmmmmm.
That's the moment that this whole illusion of freedom comes
crashing down around them. I say, bring it all down,
and I'm gonna tell you why. I'm gonna tell you why.
James T. Harris sitting in for Jesse Kelly. Jesse Kelly,
(10:58):
you are listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. My name
is James T. Harris. I am a talk show host
out of a Phoenix, Arizona. My show to Conservative Circus
can be heard Monday through Friday, six am to ten
am on the free iHeartRadio app. You can also follow
me on all my socials by going to my main
website at James T. Harris dot com. Make sure you
(11:21):
hit the Clarity Report listen. What is the reason why
I am so worked up right out of the box
sitting in for Jesse Kelly is because a major fraud
has been exposed to the world, and it did not
come from the New York Times or CNN. It did
(11:41):
not come from the Washington Post. To Wall Street Journal.
Didn't come from ms NOW, BBC News, CBS News. It
didn't come from Bloomberg. Didn't come from NBCCNBCAP, The Guardian. No,
it didn't come from Fox News. It didn't come from
News Nation. It didn't come from Newsmax. It came from
(12:03):
a twenty three year old kid with a YouTube channel.
He and his partner, a guy named David, who actually
has been doing the research for years, simply had an
iPhone and a list of of daycares and agencies that
(12:25):
Somalians had opened up in Minnesota over the last I
don't know ten or so years. Daycare sinners bilking the
taxpayers for millions of dollars millions of dollars a year,
supposed to be taking care of children. When you go
to the site, it's an empty lot, blacked out windows,
(12:46):
no children. And one day they went to one daycare
after another daycare after another daycare, meeting Somalis who were
becoming increasingly hostile, only to find nobody there. Major scam.
I think over one hundred million dollars they exposed in
that one video. Wait a minute, you mean to tell
(13:11):
me all that is happening and it's been going on
for years, and these major news organizations they didn't you
bust the story. Where's sixty minutes? Where are the investigative reporters?
No Representative Tom Emmer out of Minnesota talked about how
(13:32):
Nick Shirley found more fraudan one day than the Attorney general,
the governor, and all the news agencies combined.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Emmer is the House Majority a whip and here to
comment on all of this. An incredible story here breaking.
As Bill noted, this has gone viral. Nick Shirley's reporting.
He got out there and he did, you know, the
old fashioned legwork. He walked the walk, he asked questions,
and he revealed some fascinating stuff and as many people
have said, potentially at the tip of the iceberg here.
(14:02):
I want to get your thoughts on his reporting and
what's been exposed here.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, great to be with you, Molly. I mean, look
this young journalist, Nick Shirley goes out there and finds
more evidence of fraud in one day than Tim Walls
and our Attorney General Keith Ellison have found in seven years.
Why did he find it because he looked for it, Molly,
While Tim Walls and Keith Ellison had been looking the
(14:29):
other way. Billions of dollars have been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers.
You've got the childcare centers. They showed you there's eighty
autism centers that are under investigation. There was a housing
stabilization program that was created in twenty twenty. They estimated
it was going to run about two million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Molly.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
They shut it down in October because of it was
rife with fraud and they'd already sucked out over one
hundred and sixty million dollars. The US Attorney's office here
in Minnesota estimates this fraud could actually reach nine billion
dollars before the investigation is all over nine.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Billion dollars before the investigation is over nine billion dollars.
The Attorney General, Keith Ellerson, the Governor Tim Walls, they
looked the other way. They looked you just had to
(15:30):
be purposeful, right. They looked the other way. How can
you have all of this frog going on in your
state and you don't know, you don't listen. This is
I mean, this is corruption. They were emboden. They didn't
think they have to be concerned about this. Wait a minute,
(15:51):
you had Kamala Harris choose Walls to be her running
and made for the presidency. That's how confident in cocky
they were. Did she say this is the tip of
the iceberg? Did he say this could be nine billion
dollars in Minnesota alone?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And we've got two major issues going on in addition
to just the fraud. One millions of dollars of this
fraud has been shipped back to Somalia to a known
terrorist group, Al Jabab. And two we've got all kinds
of whistlebw blowers now that are coming forward and if
what they're saying is real and can be documented, and
what they're saying is they told Tim Walls about the
(16:31):
fraud when it was happening, and he not only ignored them,
he retaliated against him. I'm telling you, Molly, if that's
accurate and it can be proven, Tim Walls needs to
be held accountable. Everybody in his administration needs to be
held accountable. This guy now is scrambling to make it
look like he's doing something not doing.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
If they can prove that it's true, if they could
prove that it is true, he needs to be prosecuted.
What are you talking about. He doesn't need to step down.
He doesn't need to retire, he needs to be prosecuted.
Have you noticed there has been a lack of purp walks.
We're almost a year into the president's first term or
second term. Who's done the purp walk? Where's the purp walk?
(17:14):
Now you have this massive fraud in Minnesota. Who will
be held to account? See that's part of the New
Year's resolution of stop being a patsy. We need to
demand that there is an accounting for this. We're going
to hear a little bit of this video that now
has over one hundred million views. Coming up next to
(17:37):
jameson Gerris sitting in for the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
You are listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. My name
is James T. Harris. I am a talk show host
out of the Valley of the Sun in Arizona. You
can catch my show five ft KFYI in Phoenix, seven
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(18:11):
social media's and the Clarity Report. Who is Nick Shirley. Well,
he's a YouTuber, a YouTuber and he got a hold
of some folks that were really looking into the to
the fraud. He was astounded by the fraud. And this
is nothing new. This has been reported on for years,
(18:32):
you know, as you just heard on the Fox News clip,
they had whistleblowers to come forward, they got turned away,
they got threatened. I have a friend who's a radio
talk show host in Minneapolis, John Justice. He was telling me, Yeah,
there are a lot of people who are very well versed,
even more verse than this kid. Surely, but Sureley had
(18:54):
the platform and when he put it out there, it
simply exploded. There are over one hundred million views of
his video where he's going around in one day exposing
exposing over one hundred million dollars in fraud in plane view.
(19:15):
Over one hundred million views of this video. That's more
than every news agency is put together with what they're
getting aspired viewership. Corporate media is dead. They're dead. They're
a facade. When you have somebody who has integrity and
is speaking the truth, look at what happens, and look
(19:36):
at what happens when you don't have the federal government
suppressing information. I mean if this would have been three
or four years ago, this is probably why we didn't
find out about it, because once they tried to report it,
you had the very same Democrats that watched this happen,
that let this happen. They were suppressing information. You tell
the truth about COVID, you were shut down, deep platformed.
(19:57):
What if you talked about the fraud that was the
twenty twenty election, you got deep platform shut down. What
thanks to Elon Musk. I mean this thing. You have
a free avenue, and look what happens when you get
truthful reporting put on that platform, It goes viral beyond viral.
(20:24):
A forty two minute video of this young man and
his crew exposing Minnesota fraud. This might be the most
important workout there yet. It uncovered the most massive fraud
in Amrocus history. And here is just a minute or
(20:47):
two of this young man with this David, who is
an older gentleman who's done the research, going around and
boldly knocking on doors trying to get information from these
Somalians who opened up these fraud businesses.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Hello, we'd like to ask where's the money's going? Oh,
do you guys think about the fraud that's taking place
here in Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I don't think anybody is enabling fad to happen.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Hold Governor Walls accountable for this.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What was.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Six million?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
What was that money?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Any kids answer the question? Are their children?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
There's no children inside this building. Potentially the largest fraud
scandal in US history is taking place in Minnesota, as
literally billions of dollars have been funneled through Somali ran
fraudulent businesses, so much fraud it could actually almost replace
the entire GDP of Somalia. These fraudsters have worked hand
in hand with the Minnesota government as they enabled billions
(21:43):
of dollars to be given to fraudulent businesses underneath welfare purposes.
Some of this money eventually landed in the hands of
terrorist groups in Somalia like the Al Shabab and others
enriched themselves all at the US taxpayers expense. And in
this video, we will break down on all of the
fraud from start to finish, from going to the fraudulent
businesses and confronting the people who are making millions of
(22:07):
dollars from the government, and we will also be confronting
the incompetent government leaders who let this fraud happen. And
to make this happen, I met up with a man
who's been doing his own investigation for years now, as
he has seen the fraud firsthand.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You see, here's the deal, here's the problem with this.
I could tell already you know this, this young kid,
he doesn't have the proper you know, evening news voice,
this verb R reporting or fraud. He doesn't have that.
He's just a kid, you know, just just putting it
out there. They don't have the graphics. Dun, dun, dun, dun.
(22:41):
They don't have any of that. He just turns on
the camera, starts talking and showing you, you know, trying
to get some information in how he is received by
these hostile somalies is incredible. And they're showing you the PaperWorks. Oh,
they do put up some graphics straightforward. He's just out there.
(23:04):
And then he one of the guy that's working with David.
He's the guy who actually put together years of research,
years of observations of these fraudulent daycare centers. His name
is David.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Let's get into this and be prepared to be shocked.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
How deep is this fraud? Here inside of Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
It is far worse than anybody can imagine. You heard
it's seven to ten billion and maybe more. And now
the numbers have been revised and put out there publicly
that they think it's more like eight billion. How I
got involved is that where my office is here in Minneapolis,
I'm sort of in the heart of all of this fraud.
And I would see these childcare centers. I said, well,
(23:48):
there are any kids there. It's the middle of the day,
and all I see are a couple of guys standing
out front smoking. And then I'd go buy another daycare
and I'd see the same thing. I said, well, where
do these kids playing? So I started to go online
and look, and I say, this places license for eighty children.
They had zero children. Every time I went by there,
they never had a single child there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So his business is in the heart of this madness.
He's noticing it. What was going on here? You only
some ally saw you smoking cigarettes. Stuff. They're supposed to
be it's supposed to be daycare. There are no children.
Wait a minute, so he starts to put together information
notice not a news bureau, not a government agency, but oversight,
(24:28):
a regular businessman who was like, I'm surrounded by this.
What in the hellifax is going on? So he puts
together these reports. Is this documentation? I mean, this is incredible,
and we know we're gonna get it a little bit
further and show we are because this was this wasn't negligent,
(24:52):
This was being done on purpose. This was purposeful. This
is a raping of the American taxpayer. And this isn't
just happening in Minneapolis. This is systematic. Breathe, breathe. What
(25:17):
we are witnessing is a Democrat Ponzi scheme. Oh, James,
here you are Democrats. Democrat be thy name. Billions of
dollars being funneled through. You can connect the dots and
here's what's just making my head just goes. Just spend.
(25:39):
Oh we heard from cash, but tell that there were
some investigations going on during the Body administration. They knew
exactly what was going on, but they didn't do anything
about it. And you know what, the people of Minnesota,
the government of Minnesota, they're not going to do it
(26:00):
thing about it. They're the ones that were perpetuating it.
It's not going to change until we the people decide,
you know what, we we are not going to allow
this to happen. The first thing that the Trump administration
should do is shut off all the money federal funds
flowing into Minnesota. I'm sorry, Well, what about the people? Then?
(26:25):
What about the people that needed? Where were they? Where
were the people supposed to be watching out for them?
They notice how the Somalians they used the children, Oh,
the children of feeding the poor, the children, Oh this
is for autism, the children. They use our children as
a shield as they rip us off for billions. And
(26:49):
I want to know how they got away with this.
Coming up next, you're gonna hear from a TSA whistleblower.
I love ta TSA for people. They shake you, they
fill you up. Meanwhile, you got Somali is going through
the border with millions of dollars with no questions being asked.
(27:10):
James T. Harris sitting in for the Jesse Kelly Show.
Jesse Kelly returns next. You are listening to the Jesse
Kelly Show. My name is James T. Harris. I am
a talk to host out of Phoenix, Arizonta. My show
to Conservative Circus can be heard of Monday through Friday,
(27:32):
six am to ten am on the Free iHeartRadio w app.
You can follow me on social by going to James
Tarris dot com and you hit the social buttons, especially
the clarity report. Oh, we have clarity now on what's
happening in Minnesota, and they're telling us there's more to come.
But how about this. You have a former TSA agent
(27:56):
who recalled millions of cash flying out of Minneapolis into
Minneapolis airport to Somalia millions. Now, for a while I thought,
you know, you can't take money, You can't take that
much money on a plane. But actually you can. And
(28:17):
the TSA they don't limit you how much money you
could take. You could take ten thousand dollars. You have
to declare it anything go over ten thousand dollars to
the customs. Right, these cats have suitcases full of millions
of dollars. Don't you think that would be suspicious? We're
gonna flag you. Where is this money? Is this legitimate?
How that you? Oh, we want this money on the
(28:38):
stock market. No, you didn't. That's what the elon sorry
ilin Omar was trying to say. Now, she was broke
four or five years ago. Now she's worth twenty or
thirty million dollars. That's because she went to the Hillary
Clinton school the finance right right. Her husband was broke too, No,
not the brother, the white dude, the white dude she married. Yes, yeah,
(29:00):
and he was broke. Now he's got a company worth
you know, millions of dollars. How does that work? One thousand,
I should say one million dollars and one hundred dollar bills.
Weighs about twenty two pounds. I looked it up and
it takes up some serious space. No, you're at risk
playing with that kind of money. You know, you could
(29:21):
get scammed, you could get robbed. These people didn't be
They didn't seem to concern with the why. It seems
like that they had access, that they had passage, that
they had protect.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Sed suitcases filled with millions of dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Of cash, and the couriers were always smalling, meant traveling
in pairs, and they got through the checkpoint and it
just it just really absolutely blew my mind.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
The first time you open a suitcase and you see
millions of dollars of.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Cash, and typically what would happen is LEO law enforcement
officer would come check their credentials. I don't know what
kind of questions they asked them, but their ideas were
always documented, and probably they're plane tickets as well. So
there is a trail of that out there. And I
(30:14):
would believe with all the cameras at the airport that
if they started there, they could probably find each and
every individual that brought money through the checkpoint.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You think, so, you think they'd be able to do that? Well?
She noticed, She says, with all the cameras out there,
imagine if they wanted to, they'd be able to identify
every person that brought money through the checkpoint. Of course
they could, of course they could, but they didn't. Why
with all the technology that exists, and especially you have
(30:46):
Somali men walking up with suitcases with a million dollars
and they're opening it up. Hey, oh let me check
your idea. Okay, carry on and nothing nothing. I'll tell
you what, even though it's legal, let me see, you
(31:06):
put one hundred thousand dollars in a suitcase and then
try to jump on the plane and go to maybe
Vegas by some point. Do you think you would get scrutinized?
Do you think? Oh? I bet you would? Why because
you're a rube a meaning an American. See see see
if you had an accent and had more melon in
(31:28):
your skin head. Carry on, see if you were a
foreigner coming up here, you know, without any type of
identification or anything. Oh, we just come on across and
the American government will give you a backpack, give you
a debit card with ten thousand dollars on it, and
give you a free ride to anywhere in the country
you want to go. Rube. This should not surprise us.
(31:53):
But this shouldn't raide you. This should enrage you former
TSA agent just sitting here spilling a tea.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
It seems suspicious, if not alarming, given what seems to
be a pattern here. So you're talking about millions of
dollars flying out of Minneapolis, and you think it happened
about every week or so, Is that right?
Speaker 5 (32:14):
So it certainly seemed like it happened every week. Yeah,
The suitcases came in and it was it was always
the m a was always too Smallian men traveling in pairs.
Sometimes they both had suitcases.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And so the process was as a as a TSA agent,
we would pull the bag and then we'd bring them
to a private.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Screening room and we would open the suitcase and make
sure that that's all it was was stacks of cash.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, make sure it wasn't any drugs, you know, anything
something legal like that. Just make sure there was like
a million dollars in cash. As long was the billion
dollars the cash, you could.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And a LEO would come and maybe question them and
for sure take a picture of their identification.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
And I'm assuming they're playing tickets. There is a trail
out there.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Of course there's a trail out there. Oh, I'm sorry,
this is so utterly ridiculous. Oh, I have a question
for you. Have you heard this tsa whistleblower. Have you
heard her on MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, Fox
News News Day. Have you seen this before? I heard
this before? You have it? You mean tell me you're
(33:35):
getting new information from the Jesse Kelly Show, from old
regular old talk show folks. This is the power of
the new media. Again. You can find this on x Yes, yes,
it was posted yesterday, actually two days ago. The whistle
(33:56):
blower DSA telling you everything that was going this was
being done in plain sight. This was being done to you,
to us by a fraudulent federal government, a fraudulent state government.
(34:19):
There's nobody out there who voted for this. Oh, you
know what, I want to go to work for an
extra hour or so I can help some fraudulenta Somali
woman with a bogus of the daycare center, you know,
just breaking more of my ardor and cash. Nobody nobody's
saying that nobody's voting for this, So it begs the question.
(34:41):
I know I'm gonna make some folks uncomfortable with this,
but at the top of the hour, I'm gonna ask
some questions about paying BONDI I'm gonna ask some questions
about cash. But tell the FBI where are they? Where
are they? James T. Harris my friends, sitting in for
the Jesse Kelly Show.
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The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.