But, the Somali “community” of Minneapolis doesn’t believe that Abdi Yusuf Hassanis guilty of the charges and they gathered at a Twin Cities Courthouse with their long-established mouthpiece Omar Jamalto proclaim his innocence.
Hassan is most likely one of tens of thousands of Somalis welcomed by the federal government and US State Department resettlement contractors and placed in Minnesota—a ‘new American’ indeed!
First see theAP story about Hassan’s arrest,
US citizen charged in kidnapping of journalist in Somalia
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A U.S. citizen has been charged with kidnapping and other counts for his alleged role in the abduction of a freelance journalist who was held hostage in Somalia for nearly three years, according to federal charging documents unsealed Thursday in New York.
According to a criminal complaint, Abdi Yusuf Hassan was part of a conspiracy to kidnap the journalist in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, and demand $20 million in ransom. The journalist was released Sept. 23, 2014.
While the journalist is not named in the complaint or in a superseding indictment, the dates of his capture and release, and several details outlined in the court documents, match the experiences of author Michael Scott Moore, a German-American who was abducted by pirates in Somalia while he was there writing a book about piracy. Journalist Moore. His family ultimately paid $1.6 million for his release
Moore’s publicist said he was unreachable for an interview Thursday. In November, Moore confirmed to the New York Times that another man indicted in the case, Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, was one of his captors. Mohamed and Hassan are listed as co-defendants. According to court documents, Hassan, 51, was born in Mogadishu and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He faces six counts, including kidnapping conspiracy, hostage-taking conspiracy and unlawful use of firearms. He was arrested in Minneapolis on Friday and will be returned to New York to face charges.It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney in New York to comment on his behalf.
[….] The complaint says Hassan spoke English and was a translator for the hostage takers; the journalist, who identified Hassan from a lineup, said he also appeared to hold a leadership position over the other guards.
Much more hereabout the details of the kidnapping.
Now this, from CBS-Minnesota…
The Somali community led by none-other than the Somali Jesse Jackson, Omar Jamal, came out to the courthouse to say the feds have it all wrong. He, Hassan, was just there to help free kidnap victims.
Minneapolis Man Accused Of Holding American Journalist Hostage In Somalia
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Twin Cities man has been indicted for allegedly helping co-conspirators hold a journalist captive for more than two years.
Abdi Yusuf Hassan, who moved to Minnesota in 1998, is accused of holding three people hostage on the coast of Somalia.
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On a crisp winter day, dozens from one of Minnesota’s strongest immigrant communities stood together to stand behind Abdi Yusuf Hassan, filing into the Minneapolis courthouse.
A loved one told WCCO-TV, “He’s innocent, completely innocent.”
Omar Jamal is back!
I haven’t seen him mentioned for a long time. I’ve followed his ‘career’ (going back more than ten years!) as he was the mouthpiece for any Somali in trouble in Minnesota (and elsewhere!) for anything at anytime! Jamal was not a refugee, but had actually gotten into the US illegally from Canada and was never removed. For at least a dozen posts on Jamal go here.
Don’t miss one of my favorite stories about Jamal, here in 2008, when I coined his nickname—Somali Jesse Jackson! CBS continues….
Federal papers show the captured journalist identified Hassan as one of the leaders of the operation. According to the indictment, Hassan speaks English and served as a translator for the hostage-takers and regularly communicated with the journalist. Omar Jamal: the community activist go-to guy for the media! Community activist Omar Jamal testified in court Thursday on behalf of his friend.
“He was in no way, shape or form that he was involved. Having known him for 20 years, the kind of guy he is, I don’t think so,” Jamal said.
He says Hassan has been working in Somalia the past few years to help rebuild the government, and that Hassan was simply helping translate negotiations with the journalist’s kidnappers, trying to help.
Since the community is so close-knit, I wonder if the alleged kidnapper Hassan is a friend of Ilhan Omar? Does anyone know? Maybe a contributor to her political campaign?
Diversity is beautiful alert!
I saw this story a day or so ago and wasn’t planning to post it mostly because I am sick of refugee crime stories because they remind me that the US State Department under President Trump is still bringing in refugees who should not be here, and we are paying for it! Dear taxpayers, these three are living off of your generosity! Probably not working and using your money to pay for sex.
And, I am writing about it to remind you that Boise is a welcoming city!
A fourth suspect is 16 and was not in court. Of course, who knows how old he really is!
FromKTVB.com in Kuna, Idaho (20 miles from Boise),
Men accused of Kuna gang-rape arraigned; protest innocence to judge
KUNA, Idaho — Three of the defendants charged with gang-raping a woman in Kuna told a judge during their initial arraignment Friday afternoon that the accusations against them were false.
Elias Lupango, 19, Rashidi Mulanga, 18 and Swedi Iyombelo, 18, all of Boise, were arrested Thursday on the felony rape charge. A fourth suspect, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested Friday morning on the same charge.
Because the fourth suspect is a juvenile, his name has not been released, and he did not appear in court with the other defendants.
According to the prosecutor, the 18-year-old woman and Iyombelo made contact over social media and agreed to meet up in a Kuna neighborhood Feb. 7. The two agreed to hang out, but sex was not discussed, he said.
“The victim believed she was meeting only one individual, your Honor,” the prosecutor said. “The victim arrived at the location and observed four males, not just one. She stated to law enforcement that she was initially apprehensive upon arriving, but stayed.”
Iyombelo and the 16-year-old got into the victim’s car, and the woman and Iyombelo began having consensual sex, the prosecutor said. But after the sex began, the woman told Iyombelo to stop, she told police. According to the prosecutor, Iyombelo later admitted to detectives that the woman said no three times, but he kept having sex with her. The other three defendants then took turns raping the victim, the prosecutor said.
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The defendant’s public defender asked the judge to set a much lower bond, around $2,000. She told the judge that the men had struck a deal with the 18-year-old before the encounter.
“Apparently she had been aware that there were four of them and that they were going to pay her for sex,” the attorney said. “There’s a little more to this story than we all know at this point.”
Comstock ultimately sided with the prosecutor, ordering each man held on a $250,000 bond.
Were you asking yourselves, since when is Tanzania sending refugees to the US?
This is a key line that may have you confused,
All three suspects are refugees from Tanzania, according to their public defender; Mulanga has been in Boise for six months, while Lupango and Iyombelo have been in the area for three years.
I checked the Wrapsnet data base and sure enough we only took a couple of Tanzanians over the last few years and none were placed in Idaho.
However, I remembered that the US and the UN opened a big new refugee processing center in Tanzaniamostly for the tens of thousands of DR Congolese ‘refugees’ we are moving to America….and are still moving here under the Trump Administration!
See my storyin December 2017.
So, the ‘secret decoder ring’ tells me that these ‘new Americans’ are likely some of the almost 50,000 from the DR Congo we are bringing in to add more diversity to your towns and cities.
Check out this map, Idaho is one of the top states for the placement of DR Congolese over the last five years. (Obama promised the UN that we would take 50,000 and Trump is fulfilling the promise!). This is only the data for DR Congolese in the last 5+ fiscal years!
You can see that Idaho is at 1,600 since FY14 began. 130 DR Congolese were placed there since October 2018 (the beginning of FY19).
What do you do? I frankly don’t know. We thought we did something by electing Donald Trump!
The nine federal resettlement contractors were all funded by the Trump State Department, the media (outside of the local area) could care less about a few rapists/crooks/criminals running loose, and the Open Borders/big business lobby is huge and well-funded.
Ketan Shah was arrested recently at a casino in California after he skipped town with proceeds from a scam where he allegedly “sold” non-existent tickets to the Atlanta Super Bowl game.
Shah was described in news accounts as being a member of the board of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce which quickly dumped him from the board. See here.
Does it annoy you, it does me! to see that there are organizations like this one in America where they are working to promote their own ethnic group.
What happened to the idea of assimilation? Is America a hodgepodge of ethnic and racial groups each looking out for their own interests? I never see the ‘melting pot’ pushers try to discourage this practice for ‘new Americans.’
From the Gwinnett Daily Post,
Gwinnett businessman accused in $1 million Super Bowl ticket scam arrested in California casino
The Gwinnett County man accused of scamming people out of nearly $1 million in Super Bowl tickets has been arrested in California.
Police began looking for Ketan Shah days before the Super Bowl, after several people, including his own mother, claimed the Lawrenceville man went missing after taking thousands of dollars. From Shah’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketanvip At least six people had reported to Gwinnett Police that Shah had offered to sell them Super Bowl tickets. One of the victims also reported he paid $500,000 for his entertainment company to host a large Super Bowl event at “an arena.”
The setup, incident reports show, was the same for almost all of the victims: Shah, a well-connected businessman in Gwinnett who was a board member of the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, would provide the victims with their requested number of tickets after they sent Shah their money.
But that never happened, said Cpl. Wilbert Rundles, a spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.
It was discovered that Shah was reported as a missing person in December. He returned home and was removed from the system, police said. It was discovered that he had gone to Las Vegas, Nevada, on what was described as a mid-life crisis. He left again a couple days later and his family had not seen him since.
More here.
Heck, this is such a strange fraud scheme, I’m going to leave it uncategorized!
By the way, as I build an archive of stories here, use the categories found in the right hand sidebar at Frauds and Crooksfor further reference.
Tags at the end of each post include states (if applicable) so eventually you will be able to see how your state is doing in the frauds, crooks and criminals department!
This is a very cool website!
But, it shows what suckers we Americans are!
Below are the Top Ten fugitives from justice at the Office of Inspector General at the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Some individually ripped-off Medicare and Medicaid to the tune of millions of dollars, collectively the number must exceed a billion. HHS lists 170 who have escaped justice and are in hiding or have fled the country and returned to their home country.
What do you notice about the top ten? All are foreigners who were in the US busily setting-up scam operations! This is a screenshot. Go to the website and click on the links beneath each picture to see what these foreign scammers stole from us and how they did it. https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/
I looked up the ‘bios’ for a few of the top ten:
Slepak is in Russia.
Onajobi is in Nigeria.
Moreira is in Spain.
And, Tilong is in Cameroon.
Of course what I most want to know (but we are never told!) is how they got into the US (presumably legally!) in the first place!
I have said this before, but I am convinced someone could build an entire political campaign around finding and bringing to justice frauds, crooks and criminals.
By the way, if you are new to Frauds and Crooks, know that one fun thing to do is to use the language of the Left whenever you can.
One of their favorite phrases for you to co-opt is “new American!” Watch for it, they (and their media lackeys) use it everywhere in place of the word “immigrant” or “refugee.”
The word “refugee” previously had a positive connotation, but got tainted over the last few years. Gee, I wonder why!
So, they needed new positive-sounding words, thus “new American.”
They never use the word “alien” and they sure don’t want to hear the word “foreigner.”
So what do you do? Use the words “foreigner,” “alien” or “illegal alien” (or “illegal immigrant”) when appropriate and definitely have fun with “new American!”
“Mr. Aboshady helped Dr. Mashali operate one of the most dangerous pain management practices in Massachusetts.”
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling
This story from The Global Dispatch looks to be directly quoting a Dept. of Justice press release. The story is much worse than its title,
New England Pain Management Physician Sentenced to Prison for False Billing Scheme
A physician at the now-defunct New England Pain Management Associates Inc. was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for conspiring to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from Medicare and commercial insurers for medical services that were not performed. Dr. Fathalla Mashali Moustafa Moataz Ibrahim Aboshady, 36, of Lake Forest, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 75 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,852,459. In September 2018, a federal jury convicted Aboshady of one count of conspiracy to make false statements in connection with health care benefit programs and two counts of making false statements in connection with health care benefit programs.
In March 2018, co-conspirator Dr. Fathalla Mashaliwas sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to 27 counts of health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and 16 counts of money laundering.
“Mr. Aboshady helped Dr. Mashali operate one of the most dangerous pain management practices in Massachusetts,” said United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling. “Dr. Mashali routinely dispensed large quantities of powerful narcotics to addicted patients. Mr. Aboshady assisted Dr. Mashali’s illegal behavior by using his training as a doctor to fabricate patient records, with the goal of duping Medicare and other insurers into paying Dr. Mashali for his fraudulent conduct. Moreover, Aboshady later lied about Mashali’s medical practices to regulatory authorities.”
“Dr. Aboshady engaged in unlawful, unethical, and unprofessional conduct. He used the Medicare system as his own personal ATM, cheating taxpayers and private insurance companies out of thousands of dollars by billing them for medical services that were never performed. The FBI is committed to protecting government and private health care programs and stopping those who steal from them,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
[….] Aboshady conspired with Mashali, other members of NEPA (New England Pain Management Associates), and members of a satellite office in Cairo, Egypt, to falsify medical records and urine drug test results to support claims for payment to Medicare and insurers for services that Mashali did not render.
Continue herefor more of the gory details of the fraud this pair was perpetrating on US taxpayers, and for the harm they were bringing to their drug addicted patients.
The photo (above) is from a very cool website I just discovered called The Bad Doctor Database, see it here. Dr. Mashali appeared for his trial in that ‘get-up’ in the photo on the right. My first thought was that it was a ploy to gain sympathy of the court. Although not charged for any deaths, when you read about Mashali you learn that eight of his patients died of opioid over doses.
What are you going to do? Check out your doctors very carefully especially if they are of the ‘new American’ variety! And, keep a watchful eye on loved ones who you suspect of being over-medicated and risk addiction! Knocking off infidels while getting rich is a pretty sweet deal for creeps like these.
Since the community is so close-knit, I wonder if the alleged kidnapper Hassan is a friend of 
