Federal officials are investigating at least $700 million in U.S. cash transported in passenger luggage from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, primarily by Somali couriers to Somalia, other African countries, and the Middle East.
According to a whistleblower, the cash, often in bundles of $1 million or more, was legally declared and flagged by TSA agents, but ignored under the Biden administration. For context, Minneapolis alone saw $342.37 million in 2024 and $349.4 million in 2025.
Breaking down the scandal, a former TSA whistleblower described routine sightings of Somali men in pairs with massive suitcases packed with cash. Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) called for congressional probes, linking it to potential funding of the Al Shabab terror group.
Breaking the story, popular conservative influencer Libs of TikTok, stated, “I just received a message from a TSA agent in Phoenix who tells me a Somali man with a Minnesota DL flies through Phoenix every 7-10 days with a suitcase of around $250k cash. He told agents that families in Minnesota send cash back home to Sudan and Somalia through Dubai, and he is a registered courier.”
Reacting to the situation, Rep. Crane, a former Navy SEAL, explained, “We should absolutely investigate. Please send over the info, @libsoftiktok.” Further, speaking about an earlier-revealed aspect of the Somali fraud scheme, he noted, “Members of Minnesota’s Somali community defrauded U.S. taxpayers, funneled money to complicit politicians, and funded the Al-Shabaab terrorist network,” adding, “Meanwhile, Tim Walz and other officials turned a blind eye and targeted whistleblowers. This is only the tip of the iceberg.”
In any case, in the video in which she revealed what is going on, the whistleblower began by stating, “Well, I’ve actually seen a lot of things, but the most shocking is exactly that I saw suitcases filled with millions of dollars of cash, and the couriers were always small.”
She described how these fraudsters can be seen “Traveling in pairs, and they got through the checkpoint, and it just, it just really, absolutely blew my mind. The first time you open a suitcase, and you see millions of dollars of cash, and typically, what would happen is a Leo or a law enforcement officer would come check their credentials.”
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“I don’t know what kind of questions they asked them, but their IDs were always documented, and probably their plane tickets as well,” she said to describe the criminals, ” So, there is a trail of that out there, and I 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.”
Describing the frequency of these schemes, she noted, “So it certainly seemed like it happened every week, the suitcases came in, and it was, it was always the Mo was always two Somali men traveling in pairs. Sometimes they both had suitcases.”
Watch the clip here:
Concluding her explainiation, she revleaed, “So the process was, as a as a TSA agent, we would pull the bag, and then we’d bring them to a private screening room, and we would open the suitcase and make sure that that’s all it was, was stacks of cash and a Leo would come and maybe question them, and for sure, take a picture of their identification.”
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