Brett Cooper — Tampon Tim & The Somali Pirates | Episode 102

Hey, Max. I'm going to start when I come in from the ads cuz I was losing it and I just had some water and took a deep breath. Oh god. Do that again. Oh my god. Um Oh my god. Strong because this is way too hard, Max. I'm never doing this again. So over Thanksgiving, Donald Trump put out a post on X calling Tim Walls And the entire country laughed. And then we learned why he said that. Because under Tim Walls's administration in Minnesota, Somali have allegedly allegedly been defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers to allegedly pay terrorists back in Somalia.

And Democrats have been sweeping it under the rug for years, but not anymore because this is officially national news. This is just an insane story and I feel like it is getting crazier every single day. So, just stick with me as I try to help you and me follow the money. Now, before we dive in, make sure to go to cooperconfidential.com to check out all of our new behind-the-scenes content, farm vlogs, all of the things, plus ad free episodes.

Also, if you're watching on YouTube, make sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and of course, turn on that notification bell so you never miss one of our incredible episodes. All right, so before we dive into this, there are just a few key takeaways that I think we all should be thinking about here. Number one, did Tim Walls, who is the governor of Minnesota, did he know about any of this? And if he did know, and if this was public information, why was this not disqualifying in his 2024 vice presidential race?

And number two, why why on God's green earth are American taxpayers footing a possible $1 billion bill for schemes done by refugees and immigrants that literally hate America? Because I'm sorry, that is exactly what is happening in Minnesota. Now, in order to tell you this story and help it make sense in my own head as I break it down, I need a little bit of help. And so if you are listening on Spotify, I would recommend that you run on over to YouTube because I am about to whiteboard the hell out of this story.

Let's just dive in. All right, so let's get into it. First of all, we have right here Somali fraud. That is not racism. That is simply a fact, and you're going to see why. I also have it um sponsored by Tampon Tim, our very own. Love that. So anyway, all of this, this entire scheme started back in 2020 because of one organization, and that organization was called Feeding Our Future. And Feeding Our Future was the largest nonprofit recipient of government funds in Minneapolis during the pandemic.

And what this organization allegedly did was they partnered with local businesses and organizations to feed hungry families. And these organizations and businesses, they volunteered themselves as feeding sites. And then the government would then reimburse Feeding Our Future for giving out all of this food. Except here's the thing. They weren't actually feeding children. I'm going to pull out my iPad here to read this to you guys.

This is from the New York Times. State agencies reimbured the group and its partners for invoices claiming to have fed tens of thousands of children. In reality, actually, it's more than tens of thousands. You're going to see that soon, too. In reality, federal prosecutors said most of the meals were non-existent, and business owners spent the funds on luxury cars, houses, and even real estate projects abroad. Hm. Abroad.

I wonder where you are going to see in the very near future. Anyway, all of this came to light in 2022 and 47 people were charged in what they are calling the largest pandemic fraud in the country because get this, the people behind feeding our future pocketed $250 million from the Minnesota government. But guys, [music] the charges, the case, it did not stop in 2022 because this case continues to grow and new people have been charged with fraud up until just a couple of days ago.

And as of now, 78 [music] people have been charged. And after Thanksgiving, when people started attacking Trump, saying, "You can't call Tim Walls a You can't attack Ilhan Omar for marrying her brother. This is awful. You're being racist to the Somalians." Well, Trump's rapid response team on X. They dropped the whole list of fraudsters that have officially been charged in Minnesota. And almost all of them are Somali.

Just saying. Just putting that out there. That is a fact. Anyway, obviously this case has been going on for years now, but I think that there was so much fraud during co just across the country that this kind of got pushed under the rug, maybe intentionally, maybe unintentionally. I think all of that will come to light in the very near future. But investigators in Minnesota very quickly realized that they had been duped.

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Number one was one where they were supposed to be helping people in need who could not find housing. Now, the second one was a program that was supposed to provide therapy for autistic kids in Minnesota. Now, the homeless fund was part of a program that is called the Minnesota Housing Stabilization Program. This program in Minnesota back in 2020 when it was started, it had a budget of $2.6 million. Okay, that's fine, I guess.

Now, come last year, that budget had ballooned to $14 million, and eight people have now been charged. And you might ask why. Well, it's because allegedly people were not actually getting the care or the housing that they needed. These organizations working with the housing stabilization program were allegedly pocketing the money. In one article about the scheme, it reads, "The defendants targeted vulnerable people, many of whom were released from drug or alcohol rehab facilities and signed them up reportedly to help them find stable housing.

Quote, most of these individuals did not receive the stable housing they so desperately needed. The money was simply stolen." Okay. Well, how did this happen? Well, in 2020, Minnesota was the first state apparently to leverage their Medicaid dollars to help people get housing. However, they didn't really put up any parameters of how this money would be dispersed, how you qualify, or where the money went, or how the money was actually spent.

Classic classic Tim Walls, as you are going to learn. Now, moving on to scheme number two, autism. Now, I just have to say this whiteboard thing, I thought it was going to be so fun. I thought it was going to make things easier for me as I break down everything for you. No, I am sweating like a pig. I am crouching around moving this thing in and out of frame. So, just bear with me. We are almost done and that I am never doing this again.

Anyway, moving on to the culturally appropriate autism therapy. So, this is the third scheme that we need to talk about and you're going to see how all of this comes together. So, this scheme was where a woman created an organization called Smart Therapy where she was providing therapy and support to autistic kids in Minnesota. However, she was she and her partners overseas and here, she was pocketing the money that Medicaid from Minnesota was providing her instead of supporting the kids.

And that money, okay guys, that was $14 million. So, the dollar bills are just adding up. And get this, the way that they continued making more and more money and making the programs grow were by getting their friends and their families to enroll their kids in the program, even if they were not officially or really diagnosed with autism. You were also hiring non-qualified family members, cousins, even teenagers to be the quote unquote therapists.

And yes, all of this is here. It's been written about now in the New York Times. Now, where this gets even crazier and has even more broad implications is that back in 2024, new research came out that said that 1 in 16 Somalian kids in Minnesota had autism compared with 1 in 53 of their other Minnesota classmates. And people were like, "Oh my gosh, this is insane. What is going on in the Somalian communities in Minnesota?"

Oh, okay. Well, possibly. It looks like maybe not all of those diagnoses were actually real. They might have just been part of the culturally appropriate autism scheme. But I told you guys I needed the whiteboard for something because all of this now is going to start to come together because the founder of this therapy program allegedly allegedly also defrauded the government through the original feeding our future program.

So, how she did this is that she allegedly had her sham organization work with feeding our future. She said, "Hey, I have an organization. I will feed kids. This will be so awesome. I'll feed autistic kids. I'll feed hungry kids during the pandemic. This will be great." So, she filed a claim with feeding our future. She fed no kids. She allegedly was supposedly feeding 200,000 children. She did no such thing. Allegedly.

Allegedly. I have to keep saying allegedly because this is still an ongoing case. Now, in fact, she is now also one of the 78 people that is being charged in the original the big Bertha feeding our future lawsuit. And with that guys, I am putting the whiteboard away and we are sitting back down. So now we obviously have to ask how did all of this happen? How did the state of Minnesota ignore this or not see that any of it was happening?

Well, one of the prosecutors in the big birth of feed our future case said that some involved became convinced that state agencies were tolerating if not tackedly allowing the fraud. Quote, "No one was doing anything about the red flags. It was like somebody was stealing money from the cookie jar and they just kept refilling it." Which is just a great analogy for government as a whole on my opinion. So now obviously we have to ask the follow-up question, why was this metaphorical cookie jar continuing to be refilled even with all of these red flags?

Well, what's important that you remember is that it was 2020. And in 2020, everyone was afraid of being called a racist, including the state government of Minnesota. Here we go. Read this. In 2020, Minnesota Department of Education officials who administered the program became overwhelmed by the number of applicants seeking to register new feeding sites like the autism group. And they began raising questions about the plausibility of some invoices.

Now, in response, Feeding Our Future, the organization, they told the state agency that failing to promptly approve new applicants from minorityowned businesses would result in a lawsuit featuring accusations of racism that would be sprawled across the news. Feeding Our Future later sued the agency, which continued reimbursing claims and approving new sites in the months that followed. I mean, like, this is so embarrassing.

It is so bad. This is a state government that is cucked by accusations of racism. That is basically what is it's not basically what is happening here. That is literally what was happening here. They were being threatened with accusations of fake racism because most of the people who were involved in these schemes in the fraud and who are charged now in 2025 were Somali. And guys, the same thing goes with the autism scheme.

You probably heard me saying the culturally appropriate autism center. Yes. Well, the reason why they needed all of this money from the state, why they needed all of those new centers, all of the Medicaid dollars, the $14 million were because they needed culturally appropriate Somalifocused autism centers. And if you didn't accept that, you were a racist. I mean, it is literally comical. In fact, this is something that now even Somalians are speaking out about.

In the New York Times article about this story, one said, quote, "There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting block." Okay. So, instead of protecting American taxpayers, instead of protecting American citizens, you allowed yourself to be bullied. I'm talking to the Minnesota government right now. you allowed yourself to be bullied by racebaiting, racism accusation giving Somali who are allegedly happily taking advantage of your state and this country.

And I mean that just so perfectly sums up 2020. Now, I want to remind you all that all of this transpired and has continued to transpire under the administration of Governor Tim Walls. And Tim Walls cannot claim that he didn't know about this or that nobody brought it to his attention because a fraud account allegedly representing 480 state employees has been trying to bring this to both him and Kla's attention for over a year.

Just take a look at this post from last fall. This is in reply to a post from Kla while she was on the campaign trail. And this account called Minnesota staff fraud reporting commentary writes, "Miss Harris, please listen to Minnesota state employees who work every day to deliver best services possible to our state and people who expect no less and pay our wages. Tim Wallace has caused incredible harm to our state and agencies retaliated against whistleblowers against fraud.

And then guys, this week, now a year later, the same account posted this as all of this stuff started going viral. They said Tim Walls is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud. But no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walls systemically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit fraud reports.

Instead of partnership, we got the full weight of retaliation by Tim Walls, certain DFL members, and an indifferent mainstream media. It's scary, isolating, and left us wondering who we can turn to. They go on and they say, "As staff, we firsthand witness and observe fraud happening. Yet, we were shut down, reassigned, and told to keep quiet. sometimes more. Leadership did not want to appear to discriminate against certain communities and were unwilling to take action such as stopping fraud.

That would have been an adverse impact on their image. To date, no single agency leader has been held responsible for their role in fraud. It is a structure created and maintained by Tim Walls who has created an environment of interrelated agencies and institutions, including the media, that help foster fraud through retaliation and turning a blind eye in exchange for political gain in the form of high power agency leadership jobs and other perks.

Now, what is insane is that after this long, huge post was posted just a couple of days ago, this now viral tweet, this Minnesota fraud account was suspended, permanently suspended, which is something that had already happened to them back in 2023 when they were trying to bring all of this to light. Now, thanks to pressure from people online, this account has officially been brought back online and they've continued to comment and share information that they have about all of these schemes.

Now, another question that obviously is on all of our minds is where is this money going? Now, thankfully, Chris Rufo, who has been investigating the story since the beginning, he gave us an answer in an article that he just wrote for the City Journal. And allegedly, this money has been going overseas to fund al-Qaeda linked terrorist organizations. Listen to what Chris wrote. He said, "Our investigation reveals for the first time that some of this money has been directed to an even more troubling destination, the al-Qaeda linked Islamic terror group, Al-Shabaab.

According to multiple law enforcement sources, Minnesota's Somali community has sent untold millions through a network of halalas, I believe I'm saying that right, in formal clan-based money traders that have wound up in the coffers of al-Shabaab. Now, all of this is still under investigation. This just came out a couple of days ago. But Americans, specifically Minnesotan taxpayers, have a right to know where their hard-earned money, where their tax dollars are going, and how.

Because as of 2023, in 2023 alone, Minnesota Somali sent $1.7 billion overseas to Somalia. And where is the source of that money? I don't think that's coming from their own income. It seems like it's coming from this right here. So now, obviously, all of this has taken the internet by storm. And people are searching for answers. You know, did Tim Walls know? Did the Minnesota Attorney General actually pledge to help the fraudsters in exchange for campaign donations and then lie about all of it?

Seems like possibly yes, based on the information that's coming out. We also have to ask if Minnesota and other American states are going to continue to let their citizens be screwed over by groups of people who will not assimilate, publicly, declare allegiance to other countries, and who defraud taxpayers by allegedly a billion dollar. And the last question is, what is Donald Trump going to do about it?