The WORST Crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis | Guests: Alex Clark & Seamus Bruner | 1/13/26

What It Covers

Glenn Beck exposes Minnesota's $700 million COVID fraud scheme involving daycare centers, examining how state agencies, federal oversight, banks, and TSA failed to detect systematic theft. He argues institutional complicity enabled the fraud more than individual perpetrators.

Key Questions Answered

• •Banking Surveillance Failures: Banks processed $700 million in cash withdrawals over two years without triggering Bank Secrecy Act protocols. Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) generate yellow tickets that alert compliance teams but don't freeze transactions, allowing banks to profit from fees while documenting—but not stopping—criminal activity through their accounts.
• •State Program Controls Breakdown: Minnesota's child nutrition reimbursement system approved payments to daycare centers serving more children than existed in their communities. Program directors, payment approval managers, and internal audit leadership failed to question exponential growth patterns that exceeded normal baseline metrics by orders of magnitude across multiple agencies.
• •Airport Cash Transport Gap: TSA allowed $1 million daily in cash to pass through Minneapolis airport security while simultaneously conducting invasive searches on ordinary travelers. Currency reporting enforcement from customs and border patrol never escalated the pattern, suggesting either systematic negligence or deliberate non-enforcement at supervisory levels.
• •Iran-China Oil Barter System: Banks enable Iran to circumvent sanctions by structuring oil transactions as barter arrangements rather than cash sales. China pays Iran through infrastructure development and equipment instead of currency, allowing financial institutions to claim no sanctions violations while profiting from insurance and transit fees on shadow fleet operations.
• •Riot Funding Networks: Tides Foundation, Arabella Advisors, and Open Society receive over $100 million in federal taxpayer funding through USAID and state grants for education initiatives, then redistribute funds from the same accounts to protest organizations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's task force now investigates these funding networks using RICO statutes.