The Wilson Tindi files [updated]
The deeper you dig into the backstory of the convicted sex felon turned senior state bureaucrat, the weirder it gets. [Update below!]
In a well-written Exclusive Report, Alpha News brings us the story of Kenyan citizen, Wilson Nduri Tindi, age 42,
Convicted sex offender from Kenya avoids deportation, lands state job
And not just any job. Until recently, Tindi was a senior executive in the scandal-plagued state Dept. of Education (MDE), in charge of (of all things) internal audits. In his LinkedIn bio, Tindi described himself as Chief Audit Officer.
Piecing together the story from court records and Tindi’s LinkedIn account, we have the following timeline.
- 2005: Tindi enters U.S. on tourist visa, overstays
- 2007: application for permanent residency denied
- March 2009: ordered removed by immigration judge
- April 2014: became a permanent resident of U.S.
- Dec. 2014: arrested for felony burglary and felony criminal sexual conduct
- Feb. 2016: convicted on felony sexual conduct (plea deal), 2-year prison sentence (stayed), to serve 135 days in county workhouse, register as sex felon, 5 years’ probation
- August 2016: taken into custody by DHS/ICE
- May 2017: ordered removed again. Appeals court stayed removal order, pending court decision.
- Feb. 9, 2018: ordered released from ICE custody by federal judge, pending state appeal
- Feb. 20, 2018: appeal of state conviction is denied.
- Feb. 23, 2018: files petition in state court to change his name (withdrawn, April 2018)
- Sept. 2018: hired by the state of Minnesota as an auditor
At the time Tindi begins state employment, he was a convicted felon, still on probation, and a registered predatory offender. He was also the subject of a (stayed) order of removal. Is there no vetting done? Or did he exactly meet a desired DEI profile?
My favorite part of the county workhouse episode is that Mr. Tindi originally wanted to serve those days in Wisconsin. But when he found out that he would (under Wisconsin law) have to register as a sex offender for life, rather than the mere 10 years as under Minnesota law, he withdrew his transfer request.
If there is one thing that Mr. Tindi has enjoyed during his 20-year visit to our fair land is an abundance of due process. By my count, he has heard his cases heard by the following bodies:
- state district courts
- state appeals court
- federal district court
- federal appeals court
- immigration court
- board if immigration appeals
That he has lost at every level hasn’t led to his deportation.
Court filings indicate that he is no longer considered a permanent resident. If he left the country voluntarily, his re-entry would be barred by Border Patrol.
He appears to have worked first for the state Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as his name appears on in internal state document to that effect,
According to Tindi’s LinkedIn profile, he was promoted in May 2023. It’s not clear if this position was at MPCA or MDE. He appears to have been promoted to a PCA Director position in December 2023.
As Alpha News first noted, Tindi no longer appears on MDE’s executive org chart.
His name still appears, however, on the state government’s official website as a Dept. of Education employee, albeit under a different job title.
[Update: Now Unemployed! Alpha News has the new developments,
BREAKING: Minnesota Department of Education confirms convicted sex offender no longer employed by agency:
MDE said Wilson Tindi, a Kenyan national and convicted sex offender, earned $145,000. His last day was June 27, the same day Alpha News first reached out to the agency.
Early last month, Tindi was arrested for drunk driving, weaving and speeding his way through Golden Valley at 2:30 in the early Saturday morning of June 7. He refused the breath test. He was released on bond and is due back in court in August.
A 2022 DWI was pled down to a misdemeanor careless driving citation. That case is still showing an unpaid fine of $978. That amount represents the bulk of the $1,257 in unpaid state fines owed by Tindi, a current state employee.
In the 2022 incident, a Deputy found Tindi asleep at the wheel of the same car at a stoplight on Highway 55 in Plymouth. He refused the breath test. A detail from Tindi’s 2022 arrest,
C’mon, man!
Among the remaining mysteries: why hasn’t ICE/DHS renewed removal proceedings? How did he get hired and promoted by state government? How is he still employed by state government?
As to the first question, Alpha News is out with an update, quoting DHS, “We will get this sicko out.”
How soon is now?