Ethiopian nabbed by Capitol Police today after storming Capitol steps, demanding amnesty NOW! (just kidding on that last bit!)
Bit of a scary scene here at the Capitol as dozens upon dozens of members exit the Capitol at the end of votes.
Middle Eastern appearing man runs past police at the base of the steps….and toward the House entrance as members were coming down. Has a backpack. Starts yelling “I am Ethiopian” and “Salaam, Saalaam.” He unfurls a small Ethiopan flag….before Capitol Police tackle him. He ran right past me as I was talking with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).
Gets very close to the door as there were literally 40 or so members on the steps. Came close to getting inside.
Members were told to divert from the door as they left after the votes.
It appears the suspect had nothing but books in his backpack and has a visa that expired in 2006.
Crazy!
Oh, now I know, he thinks the Gang of Eight is taking too much time with his amnesty. Remember readers, it will be people like this visa over-stayer who will be eligible for legalization if Rubio and the Gang get their way.
Update May 5th: Tsarni trying to get his nephew buried in Mass. But, he has been successful in America, why not ship his body back to Russia. His grave in America will just serve as a rallying point for protestors.
In the midst of the media storm created by the Boston Bomber Brothers Tsarnaev, their Uncle Ruslan Tsarni (why did he change his name?) came forward to condemn his nephews’ actions and, if I heard it once, I heard it a zillion times—Ruslan is the kind of immigrant we want! (Personally I thought he sounded like a phoney, like someone trying to save his own skin!)
Ruslan Tsarni with adoring press in front of his Montgomery Village, MD home. Photo by Allison Shelley/Getty Images
If you were among those gushing fans, think again. Steve Sailor writing at VDARE directs us to a website that has been researching the question about how this extended family of Chechens got asylum here in the first place. Yes, how?
The uncle of the accused Boston Marathon bombers incorporated, in 1995, a company called the “Congress of Chechen International Organizations.”
Even as the company was sending aid to Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, its listed address was in the home of former top CIA official Graham Fuller.
Ruslan Tsarni was listed as the company’s resident agent. The company’s address was 11114 Whisperwood Ln in Rockville MD., the home of Graham Fuller, the one-time Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA under President Reagan.
Over this past weekend, Fuller reluctantly confirmed the report published here last Thursday, “Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official.”
He admitted that Ruslan Tsarni had once been married to his daughter.
But then, with the same breath, he derided what he called “rumors” of links between Tsarni and the Agency as “absurd.”
But documents surfaced over the weekend that cast a long shadow of doubt on Graham Fuller’s assertion, which amounts to a beat cop waving his baton, and saying, “There’s nothing to see here folks. Move along.”
How closely tied is the refugee/asylum industry to our intelligence community, inquiring minds want to know. See my post hereon the International Rescue Committee earlier this week—it raises the same sort of issues.
And, you all thought this business of saving poor refugees and asylum seekers was all about humanitarianism.
Oops forgot to mention—our whole category on the Boston Marathon Bombing is here.
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My last post yesterday was on food stamp fraud and our EBT Nation. This morning four new rip-offs of the US taxpayer make the news—three from New York and one from Florida and they are biggies! I wonder did these guys get government supported micro-loans to set up their businesses?
A St. Petersburg convenience store clerk has been convicted of participating in a food stamp fraud scheme that cost the federal government an estimated $350,000.
Isam Nasser, 30, of St. Petersburg, was found guilty by a jury Wednesday of conspiracy to defraud the government and commit wire fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and five counts of food stamp fraud, according to a release from U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill, of the Middle District of Florida. [Wire fraud? Was Nasser sending your tax dollars abroad to Egypt maybe? Just wondering—ed]
According to evidence at the trial, Nasser was a clerk at the Hungry Baba, a convenience store owned and operated by Mehdi Babul. During the conspiracy, Hungry Baba participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, which is run by the federal Department of Agriculture.
From November 2008 through April 2010, Babul, Nasser and others conspired to cheat SNAP by purchasing benefits from customers for cash, minus a fee of about 50 percent of the amount charged to the recipient’s account, the release said.
The transactions are illegal and known as “discounting” or “cash-back.” According to testimony at the trial, the estimated loss to the USDA was more than $350,000.
Nasser faces up to five years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge, up to 20 years on the wire fraud charge, and one year on each of the food stamp fraud charges, the release said. Nasser will be sentenced July 10.
SYRACUSE — Three Syracuse markets were searched Thursday morning in connection with an investigation in to New York food stamp fraud and trafficking violations. Four individuals were arrested for falsifying business records and misuse of food stamps.
All American Market owned by Moufida Ibrahim and Edres Ibrahim
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Officials say the raids were the result a year-long investigation. The three stores were purchasing food stamp benefits at a rate less than their full value from customers.
The S&R Convenience store is accused of committing fraud against the federal food stamp program for approximately $210,000. Malek Mobarez, of S&R Convenience, is charged with falsifying business records and misuse of food stamps. He was issued an appearance ticket.
Lexington Market is accused of committing fraud against federal food stamp program for approximately $170,000. Joudah Mere, of Lexington Market, is charged with falsifying business records and misuse of food stamps. He was issued an appearance ticket.
All American Market is accused of committing fraud federal food stamp program for approximately $60,000. Moufida Ibrahim and Edres Ibrahim, of All American Market, were charged with falsifying business records and misuse of food stamps. They were both issued appearance tickets.
As is the case in the majority of these fraud busts, no mention is made of nationality or immigration status of the accused fraudsters (media code of silence?).
For new readers, this is my hobby (has been for going on 6 years) alongside my hobby of writing about our refugee and asylum programs. We desperately need a real investigative reporter to tie all these immigrant-run schemes together. This is not a coincidence that such a large percentage of convenience stores are owned by immigrants who then steal from the US taxpayer.
Dear real investigative reporter: Just type ‘food stamp fraud’ into our search function, I’ve done all the research on cases you will need—except for how these perps do it (get into the US, buy the store, and go into the fraud business).
O’Reilly: Why are we supporting questionable foreign folks?
(LOL! He doesn’t know the half of it!)
I’m an ‘occasional’ fan of O’Reilly, and happened to catch part of his show last night when he used Alan Colmes as a punching bag about the Boston Bomber family’s reported $100,000 dip into the pockets of American taxpayers.
If O’Reilly continues to investigate the refugee/asylum system, I will be his number one fan!
Bill O’Reilly kicked off his show tonight expressing outrage with the mother of Boston bombing suspects the Tsarnaev brothers for accusing the United States of a conspiracy to frame and kill her children, when her family has been taking more than $100,000 in welfare benefits for years. O’Reilly and Monica Crowley expressed outrage at the lack of welfare oversight, and when Alan Colmes challenged their claims, O’Reilly told Colmes to “shut up.”
O’Reilly called the mother “disgraceful” for her comments, and asked exactly why “we the people [are] supporting questionable foreign folks.”He wanted to know why President Obama and Governor Deval Patrick aren’t expressing outrage with the fact that the Tsarnaevs were getting welfare assistance, decrying the lack of outrage as “business as usual” for an immigration policy and a welfare system that turns a blind eye in situations like these.
Why did we let them in and how persecuted could they have been if they were, and are, traveling back and forth?
Funny that the Mediaitereport just focused on the welfare use, but to me O’Reilly’s outrage about their “vacations” to the land of persecution struck a cord.
Readers, we have seen it over and over again. We give refuge to people who claim persecution and then we see them go ‘home’ for visits and to do business. We have written at RRW about Bosnians going ‘home’ because they still own property, Mesketian Turks have houses to sell back ‘home’ and we can only speculate that they too must go back to Russia for occasional business, but the most outrageous are the Somalis. (Muslims all!)
We are resettling Somalis by the hundreds each month RIGHT NOW, yet many we have fed, housed, clothed and educated go back for various reasons—primarily “business” or to visit the family. Who can afford a plane ticket to Africa? But, we can’t forget that dozens of ‘youths’ went back to learn the fine art of Jihad, here in 2008!
BTW, the family reunification program for Somalis recently re-opened after being closed for years because of widespread fraud—those getting in as ‘family’ were found (through random DNA testing) not to be related at all. The State Department admitted that tens of thousands of Somalis are in the US illegally!
The Gang of Eight billwill make it easier for so-called asylum seekers and refugees to be admitted to the USbecause it makes whole groups of people eligible while under the present system they are still supposed to prove they personally fear persecution!
Bomber Mom, Zubeidat, poster girl for LEGAL immigrants on welfare?
Your tax dollars!
If you are not following the British press on the Boston Bombers, you might not be getting the full flavor of the Tsarnaev’s scams on you (the American taxpayer) in addition to learning more details about their murderous rampage in the name of Islam. The Boston Heraldhas the story here. But, here the UK Daily Mailhas it laid out in a more interesting format. Read the very thorough accounting of what the Tsarnaevs milked the US and the State of Massachusetts for! Hat tip: Don Irvine on twitter.
I’m so sorry for the victims of the Tsarnaev terrorists, but honestly this horror has finally focused the public’s attention on our out-of-control system for asylum seekers. Help make sure this program is reformed and get it (refugee and asylum sections) dumped from the Gang of Eight’s “comprehensive reform” bill now before the US Senate. The bill will make it easier for more refugees and asylum seekers to get into the country, get permanent residency and ultimately citizenship.
The family of the Boston bombing suspects has received more than $100,000 in welfare benefits over the last decade, according to the Boston Herald.
Details of the benefits – which included cash, food stamps and housing assistance – are contained within more than 500 documents that were handed over from Massachusetts welfare officials to a committee of state lawmakers on Monday.
The documents have not been released publicly, but a person who has reviewed them told the Herald that the ‘breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning.’
Apparently Mass. Rep. David Linsky pressured the state agencies to release the information over the head of Governor (and Obama pal) Deval Patrick saying the citizens have a right to know.
DEMOCRAT Mass. Rep. David Linsky: taxpayers have a right to know! Yes! and all citizens (in every state) should be demanding the same right to know about the extent of all refugee welfare use (not just in the case of terrorists)!
‘I can assure members of the public that this committee will actively review every single piece of information we can find because clearly the public has a substantial right to know what benefits, if any, this family or individuals accused of some horrific crimes were receiving,’ said Linsky, the committee’s chairman.
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Welfare officials have been forced to divulge details of the aid that was paid out to the family of the bombing suspects.
Mass. Gov. Patrick Deval [Deval Patrick—ed] told state agencies last week that they should not discuss the details of what government assistance Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had received, citing privacy concerns.
Welfare information is not available for public release unless the person in question provides their consent, but it is available to lawmakers.
Massachusetts State Rep. David Linsky called on the state’s Department of Transitional Assistance to provide him with the information.
Linksy issued an ultimatum on Thursday to welfare officials, giving them 24 hours to provide the information.
The letter from Rep. Linsky was provided to the Boston Herald.
‘My office is working to fully comply with your request,’ DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan wrote in his report to Rep. Linsky, saying they were only providing a summary ‘given the great interest in this matter.’
In addition to the aid paid out to Tamerlan and his wife, both alleged bombers had benefited from welfare since their parents Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev collected foodstamps and TAFDC – from 2002 to 2004 and again in 2009 to 2011.
Go to the full articlefor all the gory details. However, keep in mind that they were granted LEGAL status in the US. So, the next time you are tempted to say, “I’m o.k. with LEGAL immigration, it’s illegal I have a problem with!”, don’t say it, just zip it! because it shows how uninformed you are!
The Daily Mailwraps up:
Since the Tsarnaevs are Chechen immigrants, some wondered why they received aid. But the state agency explained that they were considered eligible for the public assistance.
‘The Tsarnaev parents were eligible to receive benefits as legal, non-citizen residents who were granted asylum statusand met the basic eligibility criteria for DTA, including household income levels, presence of dependent children and other factors,’ the DTA interim commissioner Stacey Monahan said in a letter addressed to David Linsky, Chairman of the House Post Audit and Oversight Committee.
Contact your Members of Congress and US Senators and tell them it’s time to hold hearings on the refugee and asylum programs authorized under the Kennedy/Biden/Carter Refugee Resettlement Act of 1980. And, by all means strip out changes made to those programs in the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill now!
Still waiting! We are all still waiting breathlessly for the details on the Tsarnaev’s original application for asylum, and the application for family reunification—if you see details on those docs before me, please let me know!
This is our tenth post on the refugees who became the Boston Bombers. Go hereto see our archive.
O’Reilly: Why are we supporting questionable foreign folks?
