The Somalis ran a sophisticated money network spanning from Seattle to Minneapolis and were routing significant amounts of cash on commercial flights from the Seattle airport to the hawala networks in Somalia. One of these networks, Kearns discovered, sent $20 million abroad in a single year. So this is Money that's coming from the Minnesota taxpayers. It is going through the Somalia, Somali community in Minnesota back to Somalia on the order of magnitude of $1.7 billion a year. (08:29–08:36)
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Asserts that a network sent $20 million abroad in one year.
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