The WORST crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis

What this episode is about

The discussion focuses on the perception of crime in Minnesota, challenging the narrative that associates criminality predominantly with the Somali community. It highlights concerns about systemic issues within the banking industry, particularly regarding lax oversight that allows substantial cash transactions to occur without detection, suggesting that attention should be redirected towards these larger institutional failures rather than focusing solely on specific ethnic groups.

Key takeaways

• When $700 million disappears without a trace, is it banking magic or just selective blindness?
• Banks can make cash vanish but throw a fit over $10,000 withdrawals—who's really managing our money?
• Minnesota's leadership tampering with public trust: civil war rhetoric as a distraction from financial corruption.
• Stockholm syndrome isn't just for hostages; it’s how corrupt systems keep the public compliant and blind.
• A corrupt system thrives unanswered; hold leaders accountable or brace for bigger messes and bolder heists.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 14 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: cash, Somali, banks, Corruption
2. 3:00 – 6:00: civil war, Accountability, Corruption
3. 6:00 – 9:00: banks, fraud, Somali
4. 12:00 – 14:02: Somali

Notable quotes from "The WORST crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis"

• This is a smaller number than everybody else that had to be involved in this. My jihad is on banks, but that will kind of be a theme throughout the entire show. today banks are really, really pretty.

  about banks · at 0:29

• Minnesota. You couldn't pay me to live there. Not because of the politics, but because the society is accepting this corruption.

  about Corruption · at 2:47

• The federal agents cannot be turned around. You have to change this because if you don't if you can't break the spell and there is no accountability ever, then you know the predators will just do it again. They'll do it bigger.

  about Accountability · at 5:13

• We thought of fraud. So there are trip wires everywhere. You need to question the inspector general. Anybody who had oversight functions, okay, federal funding and oversight.

  about fraud · at 8:25

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Concepts & topics

• banks — Concept · Core target of criticism / systemic enabler · 2 mentions · first at 0:34
  The speaker's stated "jihad" centers on banks, alleging they would have detected or should have detected suspicious cash activity and international transfers, and that compliance/risk functions failed or were overridden.
• fraud — Concept · Central wrongdoing alleged · 1 mention · first at 8:13
  Fraud is the organizing claim: the speaker argues systems are designed to detect fraud via patterns/tripwires, so failure implies intentional non-action or complicity.
• cash — Concept · Key mechanism in alleged scheme · 2 mentions · first at 1:04
  Cash is central to the speaker's argument that massive sums ("$700 million") could not plausibly move through banks/airports without detection, implying systemic failure or complicity.
  The price. They got their fees and they knew they had to have known you don't you don't you don't run $700 million through an airport in cash. I tried to get $10,000 out of my…
• Corruption — Concept · Core allegation describing governance failure · 2 mentions · first at 2:50
  Corruption is used to characterize Minnesota leadership and the broader system that allegedly enabled or ignored fraud and then sought to avoid scrutiny.
• Accountability — Concept · Normative demand / proposed remedy · 1 mention · first at 5:15
  Accountability is framed as necessary to break public 'conditioning' and prevent repeat predation; lack of accountability is said to guarantee recurrence and escalation.
• Somali — Concept · Contested framing / scapegoat narrative · 4 mentions · first at 0:00
  The speaker argues public attention is overly focused on Somali people, while the larger enabling system (banks, agencies, oversight) is the real issue; also referenced in claims about alleged anti-Somali bias narratives.
  And I believe these are the right things that we should be we should be worried about. Look how many Somali were involved in this. Okay? And everybody's concentrating on…
• civil war — Concept · Escalation scenario / political fear framing · 2 mentions · first at 3:02
  Presented as the "worst case" outcome of political conditioning and refusal to accept accountability; attributed to the governor's rhetoric (per speaker).
  Of the problem. You never will. They'll never change their mind. They only harden their positions and you will have civil unrest or civil war.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 So, let me take you back to Somali and my jihad. My jihad is on several things and I believe these are the right things that we should be we should be worried about. Look how many Somali were involved in this. Okay? And everybody's concentrating on Somali. I'm going to give you a list of just who I believe should be dragged in front of a court of law and and answer questions. Um, and and I'm not even concentrating on the Somali because the Somali involved in this is a smaller number than than everybody else that had to be involved in this. My jihad is on banks, but that will kind of be a theme throughout the entire show. Uh, today banks are really, really pretty.

0:45 They're great. They do a lot of great things and there's a lot of great people at a lot of great banks, but the system itself protects itself and they seem to always get rich while everybody else has to pay the price. They got their fees and they knew they had to have known you don't you don't you don't run $700 million through an airport in cash. I tried to get $10,000 out of my bank at one point because I wanted to bury it in my backyard next to my dog's bones. And uh oh crap, now I got to re I got to shovel shovel it up now. Um anyway, tried to get that. It took me two weeks. Took me two weeks. Now I can go faster than that, but they were like, "We have to let the Treasury know. The Treasury the bank doesn't have that much cash." And I'm like, "You don't have $10,000. What kind of crappy bank?"

1:36 They're like, "The Federal Reserve. It goes to the Federal Reserve every night. Now we're in Dallas, but every night it goes to the Federal Reserve and we have to ask for the amounts of cash. So the money came from the Federal Reserve. That wasn't an easy That wasn't like Mildred going into the back and just pulling out 10 grand. There were all kinds of paperwork that that So you're telling me $700 million in cash came out of a bank over a two-year period and nobody noticed it? Hm. Then nobody noticed it at the TSA.

2:09 Nobody noticed that. Nobody noticed that these these these uh daycare centers are remarkable serving more children than even exist in that community. Nobody said anything. Nobody noticed. Mm- And now the last part. I am so sickened by the the leadership of Minnesota. I mean, I would move from Minnesota. I mean, and I know motans are now cheering and they were like, "Wait, he was living here the whole time. We didn't know it." They're cheering that I wouldn't live in Minnesota. And I understand that, but I wouldn't live in Minnesota. You couldn't pay me to live there. Not because of the politics, but because the society is accepting this corruption.

2:55 And now your governor and the whole apparatus that stole money from you are now trying to get you riled up for a civil war. At least civil the worst case scenario is civil war. Those are your governor's words, not mine. The best case scenario is [clears throat] civil unrest. They already let one of your cities burn to the ground. Why not burn the whole state down to the ground? Why? So they they aren't called into question so they don't have to go to court so possibly they can get away with stealing your money. Is it Stockholm syndrome? Honestly, now I know that involves hostages, but it's almost the same thing. And I was thinking about it and it's not Stockholm syndrome, but [clears throat] how do you get good people to do what people are doing up there? Well, you have to condition them for a very long time. And this happens on both sides. I want you to know you have to be careful on our

3:55 side. You're conditioned to go orange man bad, Tim Walsh bad. Okay? You're conditioned. And so when when something happens, you're immediately conditioned to go, "No, you're bad side, me good side." Okay? So that plays a role in it. But the other part that plays a role is if you have been this wrong and you have defended somebody like this for so long and you've turned blind eye to local reports and everything else and you went ah that can't be true and you're so deeply into it. It is almost impossible for you to admit that you were that wrong for that long.

4:41 Especially if the other side says you're wrong, you're wrong. You're wrong. Instead of saying, "You're looking at this, I think, the wrong way. Can I give you another way to look at this?" Instead of welcoming people and saying, "No, no, no. I understand how you're feeling. I get it." If we are on our side saying, "You're wrong. You're part of the problem. You never will." They'll never change their mind. They only harden their positions and you will have civil unrest or civil war. In the meantime, we have to pursue this.

5:13 the federal agents cannot be turned around. You have to change this because if you don't if you can't break the spell and there is no accountability ever, then you know the predators will just do it again. They'll do it bigger. They'll do it in the daylight. You know, guard rails are real until somebody decides they're not. Okay. So, [clears throat] I started making a list last night until I had no more lead in the universe to put into a pencil and write it down. Uh, start making a list. I'm a little like Santa if he were on a jihad. And, uh, cuz I made a list and it's a long list and I've checked it twice. Now, this is just the list of the system. Okay, everybody's everybody is freaking about Somali.

6:09 I suggest we start looking at the system because this far outnumbers the Somali that were involved. I think so. [clears throat] Who should be called in for questioning? Who should be worried tonight? This is another reason why they can set the state on fire and nobody in government's going to say a word. So, who needs to be questioned? who most likely at least knew and failed to say anything. I'm not saying they're complicit, but they at least knew and failed to say anything. You got to question the program directors, the division directors who oversee child nutrition, daycare reimbursement, grant or the grant administration, uh the payment approval managers and supervisors. These are the people who can override a hold and approve exceptions. If something's hanky, you got to talk to the people who went, "Nah, don't worry about it." Okay. The contract grant officers and their supervising chain because there's

7:11 exceptions. Something was hinky in all of somebody said, "Hey, this doesn't look right." And somebody else had to say, "Don't worry about it." Okay. the internal audit leadership that is assigned to all of those agencies. These are people who possibly will face jail time if the universe worked the way it should. The compliance and integrity units inside the agencies, anybody who is involved in integrity and the integrity office, the agency general counsel, all of the people in the agencies are like, "Are we going to are we are we doing anything illegal here?

7:49 Can we get by with all of this stuff? Any legal review staff involved in the escalations, the state finance people, the budget oversight personnel, anybody who would see abnormal burn rates of that money and the concentrations of that money and go, "Something's not right here." Because the system, remember, the system is designed to look for things outside of the pattern. That's how you spot fraud. So everything has been designed to spot that. This isn't something like, well, we never saw airplanes flying into buildings. Nobody ever thought of that.

8:25 We thought of fraud. So there are trip wires everywhere. You need to uh question the inspector general. Anybody who had oversight functions, okay, federal funding and oversight interfaces. So now this is the next level. This goes from the state to the federal. the USDA program oversight and compliance liaons tied to the program streams, the federal and state coordination points responsible for responding to audit findings or corrective action plan. So now the now the auditors who are like hey there's a there's something hinky here. Then you go to the banks, the bank managers at the branches, the regional operations manager where high volume cash activity was occurring, the bank secrecy act, the AML investigators assigned to the accounts, anybody where there was a yellow ticket that went up, who was advised, who who was assigned to look into that and why didn't you act on that? the the yellow ticket committees,

9:27 the governance groups, the senior compliance leadership, that's regional and the local and the uh state bank um the risk officers, the compliance officers, anybody who was looking at legal and risk, you know, should we keep this customer because there is a risk here. Are we going to be held responsible? the correspondent banking, the the wire risk teams. When you send a wire, I want to look at everybody who was involved in sending that wire. I want to look at all of the risk teams and what they said, what they did.

10:00 Anybody who was moving money internationally or through high-risk corridors, how did you do that? How did you move money just to Somalia? That alone sends up red flags. Then you get to the TSA and the airport. I want to question everybody in the TSA, the super supervisory chain, anybody who was responsible for noticing patterns, the airport security operations management, the people who are responsible for reporting and receiving the reports on anything out of line, any joint task force liaison roles that interfaced with repeated cash move. you know, they were getting calls. And if they didn't, I want to know why. Who made that call to say, "Don't make the calls anymore."

10:50 The uh the currency reporting enforcement, from our border patrol, from from our customs, why didn't they why weren't they involved? Or were they any kind of outbound international cash that should have shown up with our with our customs? Why did no one in customs say anything? Then you have the prosecutors, the agency investigators who documented early red flags. Why weren't they listened to? Who said shut up about this? Supervisors who decided whether to refer, escalate, or pause payments. Was there anybody in line that said, "Hey, we need to check this out before we send any more money here." Any task force leadership coordinating multi- agency response timelines? Okay.

11:42 That's me at home last night just ranting. You know who else? What happened to those people? Why customs doing it? Why Why did the person on the front line, who did they report to? Who did they report to? Who stopped them from $700 million? Who in Washington was saying, "Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Don't look into did it make it to Washington? If it didn't make it to Washington, how come it didn't make it to Washington?" This shows the banking, the state and the feds were completely every at best every trip wire failed and there are hundreds of them. I don't believe they failed. People intentionally were either involved or they intentionally chose not to get involved.

12:32 You couple that with a with a state full of people that don't want to look into it now that it's been exposed and are willing to look at the people who did this to them and say, "Yeah, I want to march in the streets. I want to put my body in front of the feds who are doing investigations, who are trying to do this. I want to put my body in front of them to protect Tim Walls and his cronies or the people at the airport or the people at the banks. There's something deeply wrong. And you do not heal this society until you heal the people who were not involved but are who are willing to look the other way at this point. There's no hope for Minnesota unless you can turn the people and and have them go, "Wow, I'm sorry. I was just blind for a minute. I don't know what happened to me."

13:29 You'll never solve this. And it will only get worse. Do not accept the lies that Tim Walls and and Keith Ellison are now trying to get you to believe that this is all the feds and their hatred for Muslims or their hatred of Somali. It's not. I haven't even mentioned the Somali. They're the least of my worries.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "The WORST crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis"?

Glenn Beck (Guest).

What is "The WORST crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis" about?

The discussion focuses on the perception of crime in Minnesota, challenging the narrative that associates criminality predominantly with the Somali community. It highlights concerns about systemic issues within the banking industry, particularly regarding lax oversight that allows substantial cash transactions to occur without detection, suggesting that attention should be redirected towards…

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including banks, fraud, cash, Corruption, Accountability, Somali. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "The WORST crooks in Minnesota AREN'T Somalis"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,183 words in 18 timestamped sections.

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