Yesterday’s House Fraud Committee hearing wasn’t just another dog-and-pony show at the Capitol. It was a live autopsy on the rotting corpse of Minnesota’s economy – and the Metropolitan Airports Police Chief Matt Christenson’s testimony was the smoking gun of either criminal negligence or straight-up scripted lies to protect the syndicate.
Chief Christenson sat there and admitted the airport cops have known for years about nearly $1 million a day in cash – suitcases stuffed with it – flying out of MSP to Somalia and points east. Hundreds of millions in 2024-2025 alone, more than JFK, O’Hare, or LAX combined. His response? “We told the feds. They say it’s legal under federal law. Can’t tie it all to fraud.”
Bull. That’s not policing. That’s the DFL protection racket in uniform, shrugging while the loot from Minnesota’s daycare LLC scams, COVID “relief” theft, and benefit fraud pipelines gets bundled and shipped home to the same networks that built the grift here. We already flagged this to the FBI and just wrapped a FinCEN report on the exact players. The cash isn’t “remittances from hardworking immigrants.” It’s stolen taxpayer dollars – your dollars – converted to cash and laundered through hawalas tied to the same Somali clans running the MSP taxi monopoly and now licking their chops at the next round of airport food concessions.
Enter Doran Schrantz and the Isaiah/Faith in Minnesota machine. Since 2012, this outfit has had a direct pipeline into DHS. Their “community-based childcare centers” (hundreds of them) spawned the very LLC fraud rings we’ve been exposing. Schrantz’s crew – mosques, barbershops, faith communities (Muslim and otherwise) – bragged openly about embedding lobbyists who “know DHS” and write the legislation that keeps the grift flowing. They organized the “Minnesota Miracle” that supercharged Walz’s machine. Most of the fraud actors trace back to their networks. Coincidence? No. It’s the organizational chart of a racketeering enterprise dressed up as “social justice.”
Here’s the bigger picture the corporate media and DFL enablers will never say out loud: The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro produces almost nothing of real economic value. No factories churning out widgets. No farms feeding the world. No entrepreneurs building wealth that stays in Minnesota. It’s a parasite economy – layers of nonprofits, LLC shells, NGOs, and “community organizers” completely dependent on tax dollars extracted from the rest of the state. Without the endless scams – daycare fraud, election grift, benefit theft – the Twin Cities would collapse overnight. They survive by fleecing the hardworking poor in greater Minnesota and the economically trapped poor right in their own backyard.
And who keeps the machine oiled? The DFL crime bosses, Walz appointees on the Met Council and MAC, and the wealthy Minnesota elites who’d rather sacrifice real producers (farmers, veterans, small business owners, teachers like me) than lose their political power base. They’ll do the unthinkable – look the other way on terror-financing pipelines, rig concessions for their protected networks, and let the cash fly out the door – because votes and kickbacks matter more than Minnesota’s survival. This isn’t “immigration.” It’s conquest by criminal enterprise. The Somali networks didn’t just move in; they captured key choke points with help from inside the house.
This is organized crime, plain and simple. A syndicate of political, nonprofit, and street-level players planning lies, coercion, theft, and cover-ups to stay alive. They produce zero value. They only extract. And they’re not done – they’re eyeing the next feeding frenzy at MSP’s Terminal 1 concessions redo this summer.
The truth is ugly, but it’s freeing. Hardworking Minnesotans – the ones who actually generate revenue, pay taxes, raise families, and serve this constitutional republic – are being fleeced and sacrificed to prop up a culture of thieving and grifting that cannot survive without it. We stop it now, or Minnesota dies.
Our vision: A Minnesota where the rule of law actually means something. Ironclad audits, prosecutions that don’t stop at the state line, clawbacks that empty every grifter’s bank account, and an airport that serves real commerce – not a Somali hawala ATM. Real opportunity for farmers, veterans, working families, and honest entrepreneurs who build, not loot. No more pipelines for fraud or foreign cash. Just safe streets, solvent budgets, and a state that honors the people who make it run.
The guilty are sweating already. Good. The truth will set Minnesota free.
God bless Minnesota. Jesus didn’t turn over tables for nothing – and neither will we.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
Campaign Manager
Heidi Wanty – heidi@parrish4mn.com
Phone: 1 (612) 460-1717
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