This should probably be its own thread, separate from the Democrat fraud thread.
Somalis / Minnesota
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Somali-American Abdullahi Ali has had a prolific life since arriving in Lewiston, Maine as a refugee in 2009.
Ali has become a U.S. citizen, started a nonprofit to help fellow immigrants, started several businesses, including a multi-million dollar MaineCare-funded migrant services agency, and even — according to an interview he gave to Kenyan media — managed to raise money in the U.S. to buy weapons, munitions, and supplies for a paramilitary force he had hoped to lead as president of Jubaland, Somalia.
But his knack for running a celebrated migrant agency out of Portland didn’t translate into electoral success last November when he failed to win the convoluted and disputed presidential race in Jubaland.
In an an interview with Kenyan media, Ali had previously boasted of his efforts to raise funds for para-military forces in Somalia, forces he hoped would back his claim to power should he win the presidential election.
“When I was in the U.S., I contributed to the financial support for the Jubaland-Somali army. To help the troops buy weapons, bullets and food,” said Ali.
“I helped pay my share of the fund,” he said.
At the same time Ali was helping finance arms deals in Somalia, he was also serving as the executive director and nominal head of Gateway Community Services, LLC and Gateway Community Services, Maine.
Ali’s taxpayer funding, political connections, and boasts about funding Somali arms deals raise questions about whether U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved in paying for paramilitary activities aimed at influencing Somali elections, as well as whether Ali acted as an unregistered foreign agent while receiving millions in taxpayer dollars.
According to records obtained via the Freedom of Access Act, Gateway Community Services, LLC received $28.8 million in payments via MaineCare, Maine’s version of Medicaid, from 2019 through 2024, including $4.1 million last year, while Ali was running for office with his militia in Somalia.
In April 2020, the LLC received $693,382 in taxpayer dollars under the Paycheck Protection Program, funding that allegedly backstopped 127 full-time jobs.
Other documents show that Gateway, while it was being run by Ali and Assistant Executive Director Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), owed a debt to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services of nearly $800,000 due to improper payments the company received under MaineCare. According to a March 2022 letter to Ali, a sample audit of reimbursement claims Gateway filed with MaineCare found a 36 percent error rate, resulting in Gateway receiving an estimated $903,938.95 in improperly paid taxpayer dollars.
It’s unclear from the letter whether that debt was ever settled.
According to public tax records, Gateway Community Services (the nonprofit, rather than the similarly named for-profit LLC) earned just over $1.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, with $1.3 million of that revenue being from government grants. That represented a significant increase in taxpayer funding for the non-profit, which received just $135,561 in 2019 and $488,531 in 2020, according to tax documents.
Ali, in his role as executive director of the nonprofit arm of Gateway, took compensation of $12,825.
State Rep. Dhalac, a member of the State Legislature’s powerful appropriations committee, served as assistant executive director at Gateway at the same time DHHS’ Program Integrity unit was attempting to recoup nearly $800k in improperly billed claims. According to financial disclosures Dhalac has filed with the Maine Ethics Commission, she listed her employer as “Gateway Community Services” in 2021, 2022, and 2023. However, her 2024 disclosure lists only “Cross Cultural Community Services,” an entity from which she reported self-employment income in the three years she served as assistant executive director at Gateway.
The non-profit arm of Gateway has also come under legal and media scrutiny in recent years. According to a Jan. 2022 report from the Portland Press Herald, Abdullahi and Gateway were implicated in a federal investigation into wage fixing among migrant-run health care agencies, though Abdullahi denied any knowledge of the conspiracy.
According to one of the defendants in that case, Ali, who was never named as a defendant and was never indicted, was the person who drafted the agreement. When the Press Herald reported questioned Ali about this, the reporter said he hung up the phone.
Although Dhalac appears to no longer work for Ali at Gateway, the pair appear to remain close. Both Dhalac and Ali accompanied Office of New Americans Director Tarlan Ahmadov on a controversial junket to Azerbaijan, paid for by the government of Azerbaijan.
Neither Dhalac nor Ali have responded to inquiries about the trip to Azerbaijan.
Ali and Dhalac have also ignored questioned about whether U.S. tax dollars were used to finance Ali’s support for Somali arms, munitions, and para-military troops.
A search of U.S. Justice Department records for the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) does not show any indication that Ali ever registered as a foreign agent during the time when he claimed to have raised money in the U.S. for the benefit of Somali para-military groups.
A random name generator? Every new drug advertised on tv has a black girl name. Tremfya. Qualipta. There are more. My brother got a good laugh out of that. Think of it the next time you see one of those commercials.
As long as some money gets kicked back no politician has a problem with it.
As long as some money gets kicked back no politician has a problem with it.
Shame on people if in fact they are targeting Timmy's family but also shame on the daughter for her language.
It isn't like her father didn't insult anyone. Time to be grownups, but we all know that isn't going to happen.
That actually was probably true or had some truth to it. Where I used to work some of the hourly folks were Haitian nationals, good people and hard workers by the way.
One of my team leads was a Haitian and I asked her if Haitians eat cats and dogs.
And she said yes, some of them do.
I even asked her if Trump statement had some truth to it, and she said she doesn’t doubt it. It is not something that is a standard food of Haitians, but in Haiti, they have been known to do that if food is needed.
That is a true real life story.
I would say the same thing under oath in a court of law.
Flog will hoist ze's skirt and scratch ze's balls before laying them on Fib's chin and screech you're a goddamned liar and ask for a verifiable, reputable source.