That would be the mother of the San Bernardino Christmas party slaughterer.
She says she is entitled to the payola since she didn’t know what her son had planned (or so she says). Tell that to the 14 families who lost their loved ones forever!
(The story was at the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago, but I missed it.)
Mother of San Bernardino terrorist trying to get money from Minnesota Life Insurance
Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, is trying to cash in on her son’s $280,000 life insurance policy. Here’s the Daily Mail:
“Rafia is battling the Justice Department over Farook’s $280,000 life insurance policy of which she was the primary beneficiary. Insurers Minnesota Life Insurance paid out shortly after the attack but the funds were held by court after the Justice Department attempted to have the cash seized as proceeds of crime.”
Four years ago Rafia Farook’s son Syed, and her son’s wife Tashfeen Malik, shot up a Christmas party at the San Bernardino Department of Public Health, where Syed was an employee. As a result of the attack, 14 were killed and another 22 injured. Both Malik and Syed Farook were killed by police while they fled the scene.
It is unclear why Minnesota Life Insurance paid out money because of the death.*** However, it is possible that the money was paid out to reduce legal exposure for Minnesota Life Insurance, especially since the Justice Department would surely seize the money once it was paid. Minnesota Life Insurance is a subsidiary of Securian Financial, which is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Daily Mail continues: “Rafia is continuing to fight attempts by the federal government to retain the payout. She says that because she did not know her son was going to commit an act of terror, there is no reason for the money not to be paid.”
But Rafia Farook has other problems. Her other son Syed Raheel and his Russian wife are in trouble for immigration fraud.
That’s because Syed Raheel tried to get his wife’s sister into the country via a sham-marriage with Enrique Marquez Jr., who is currently serving 25 years in federal prison after admitting to purchasing guns that were used in the Farook-Malik terror attack.
*** Someone should see who runs the Minnesota Life Insurance Company! Do you follow my meaning!
Editor: Sorry I have been remiss in getting things posted here at ‘Frauds and Crooks’ this last week, but the issue of the President’s initiative to slow the flow of refugees to America has really heated up and I’ve been buried under breaking news at Refugee Resettlement Watch.
Thanks to all of you who have e-mailed with stories for ‘Frauds and Crooks’ that I’ve been forced to ignore for now (not enough hours in my day!). I’ll try to do better in the days ahead!
I don’t know how many of you are interested in refugee issues, but there is no shortage of refugee criminals and terrorist wannabees that are ignored by the refugee industry working against the President.
Because the FBI foiled a 2010 plot to bomb Portland’s Christmas tree lighting ceremony, these Americans enjoyed the festive event.
One such story (completely swept under the rug) is from 2010.
(Thank goodness RRWwas recoveredafter the speech police got it removed from the internet so I can find the older stories like this one.)
Speaking of that,go here to see that I was on a panel on big tech censorship in October to explain what happened to me.
This morning the ‘Religious Left’ got me particularly fired up as they have written to 15 governors and imply refugees are pure as the driven snow—no crooks, no criminals, no murderers and no terrorists, they suggest with their cleverly-worded letter.
And, since it’s the Christmas season I thought readers might be interested in revisiting one of the terrorism stories the Leftwing ‘Christians’ clamoring for more Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners have carefully swept under the rug.
FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say
The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.
However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him.
[….]
Mohamed Osman Mohamud,19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.
See one of many posts on Mohamud at RRW. He was a refugee, but apparently for the Lefty Christians an attempt at an Islamic terrorist attack doesn’t count.
Imagine thinking that your elderly mother died of natural causes in a senior living facility where you thought she was safe and well-cared-for only to receive a call two years later from the police telling you she didn’t die peacefully, but was likely murdered by Billy Chemirmir, a man who should have been removed from the US years before!
This is an update on my series of posts about the man I simply call the Kenyan Killer.
And, this is a story the national news is not touching!
Imagine the pain of knowing that this is the last face your dear mother saw on this earth.
As we left off back in July the Kenyan Killer was behind bars in Texas awaiting trial for the murder of the last in a string of murders (more under investigation) that could make him the most prolific serial killer in Texas.
Why did these vulnerable senior women and one elderly gentleman die? He wanted to steal their valuables, especially their jewelry.
Most were allegedly suffocated to death with a pillow. He was a clever killer.
Reporter Charles Scudder at The Dallas Morning Newshas penned a two-part series on the case featuring some of the daughters who today suffer from enormous grief and anger over the deaths of their mothers—many of whom might not have died if the police and medical examiners had been sharp enough to see a pattern that might have emerged if, at least in some cases, the assisted living facilities had not been quick to assume death by natural causes.
The tip-off to some family members that something didn’t add-up was that their mothers’ jewelry was missing—one guardian angel necklace in particular.
The fabulous two-part series is behind a paywall. It is an important paywall because it funds indepth journalism like this story. Part 1 is here andPart II here.
The two part series is entitled:
Guardians
Nearly two years after her mother died in a Dallas senior living apartment, Shannon Gleason Dion got a shocking call from a Plano
detective.
Her mother had likely been murdered, he told her, by a man who could be among the most prolific serial killers in Texas history.
Here is a bit of how reporter Scudder sets the scene in his opening paragraphs of Part II. Shannon got that call:
Her 92-year-old mother, Doris Gleason, had died nearly two years earlier at The Tradition-Prestonwood, a luxury senior living facility in Far North Dallas. “Old age,” the death certificate had said.
No one could explain why jewelry was missing from the apartment. No one knew why Doris wasn’t wearing the guardian angel necklace she never took off. But Shannon had done her own sleuthing.
She’d learned that jewelry had been stolen from the apartments of other residents who had died.
Scudder’s story is riveting….
Wanting something good to come out of their suffering, five daughters have launched a new group!
Some of us are wives. Some of us are mothers and grandmothers. Some of us are sisters.
We were daughters.
Now we are friends. Joined together by a shared tragedy.
We lost our mothers to a knock on a door.
To repeat – a knock on a door. He shouldn’t have been able to walk down their hall and knock on their door.
We thought they were safe. We paid for oversight. We thought they were safe. They were not.
We are daughters who have lost their mothers. We are working so you don’t have to live our tragedy. We don’t want this to happen to another family.
Many of us have been in the situation of having to place a loved one in a care facility, and if you haven’t, then you may very well be burdened with that decision in the future.
Therefore, if you do nothing else today, visit their website and if you feel moved to do so, donate to help them get their message out widely.
Where is the national news media?
Their story must get out nationally, please send to your social media networks and if you have any contacts with any national news outlet, please send it there too!
Surely you’ve seen the news, but what interested me most this morning is that the usual major news sources, even Fox News, have very few details. So, why is it that we have to go to the UK Daily Mail(again!) to get more.
And, I want to know who the victims are! Some of our finest young men and women?
Six Saudis are arrested over Pensacola naval base shooting including three who FILMED the attack by countryman who killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead – as FBI probes terror link
The Daily Mail generally includes a very handy list of bullet points like these!
~Shooting took place on base early Friday morning, sparking a lockdown
~Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
~As of Friday evening, six Saudi nationals have been detained for questioning
It’s reported that three of them filmed the shooting as it happened
~Rep Matt Gaetz, a Republican representing Pensacola, called the shooting ‘an act of terrorism’
~President Trump tweeted that King Salman told him ‘the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter…’
~Three other people were shot and killed during incident inside classroom building on base
Read the whole story, but here are a few additional snips, plus a photo the Daily Mail says is the shooter.
In recent weeks, 18 naval aviators and two aircrew members from the Royal Saudi Naval Forces were training with the US Navy, including at Pensacola, according to a November 15 press release from the Navy. It was not clear if the suspected shooter was part of that delegation.
The delegation came under a Navy program that offers training to US allies, known as the Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity.
A person familiar with the program said that Saudi Air Force officers selected for military training in the United States are intensely vetted by both countries. [We are so stupid, they are skilled liars!—ed]
Amazing how we didn’t learn anything from 911. We don’t need to invite any Saudis to America, let alone to train them to fly.
And, for goodness sake, this attack happened on a Navy base, but it required local police to take out the shooter. Why aren’t there armed Navy men and women protecting the base? (While dreadful people like Mohammed obviously carry guns on base!)
Today is map day for me! See RRW this morning to find out if your city is a prime refugee resettlement site.
And, thanks to Richard (@highblueridge)for tipping me off to the presence of maps that show just how much of the US is under the influence of Mexican drug cartels.
According to a 2016 Business Insider story, the Sinaloa cartel controls the lion’s share of the illicit drug market in the US.
These maps are a bit outdated, but definitely still worth having a look at!
