Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined Laura Ingraham on Thursday night on FOX News.
During their discussion, Bessent said Treasury was moving in to Minnosota to investigate the history Somali multi-billion fraud scandal.
Bissent told Laura that Treasury will use the FINCEN system to investigate the record Somali fraud in Minnesota.
FinCEN is a government body that safeguards the financial system from illicit activity, counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism, and promote national security through strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: This is an outrage. President Trump is outraged. I’m outraged. The whole administration is outraged. We are here to follow the money because that’s what Treasury does. We have done that for years. We did it with the Mafia. We have done it with the cartels, and now we are going to do it with these Somali fraudsters.
Treasury has something called FinCEN, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. We are coming in, and we’re coming in tomorrow, we are announcing that four investigations into money service businesses that we believe may have wired money out of the country, a lot of the ill-gotten stolen money over to the Middle East, over to Somalia.
We’ll see where that’s going. We’re announcing investigations into four of those money service businesses. We are going to put in what we call a geographical targeting order. There’s something called suspicious activity report. If a certain amount of money gets wired anywhere. We’re lowering that to 3,000, and we’re also targeting the two counties here, and we’re going to do enhanced surveillance.
From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance.
Well, this ought to get interesting!
BREAKING: Treasury Sec. @SecScottBessent in Minnesota announces MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS into four Money Service Businesses caught wiring funds to the Middle East and Somalia.
Bessent confirms the full force of the IRS and Treasury is now being deployed — including enhanced… pic.twitter.com/XNccSGq0dU
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 9, 2026
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