The childcare/Taliban connection

The 205-page U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee staff report on fraud in Minnesota includes this incredible detail on page 85,

In 2017, DHS flagged concerns that the bank account of the owner of a child care center connected with the MMCA was frozen by the Office of Foreign Asset control due to the owner’s association with the Taliban.⁴⁰⁵ Despite these concerns, DHS mailed this
individual a check for $24,000. ⁴⁰⁶

Yes, The Taliban, you read that correctly. In this instance MMCA refers to the Minnesota Minority Childcare Association. The staff report (p. 86) quotes from an internal email within the state Department of Human Services (DHS) back in 2017,

Within the last few days DHS sent an electronic payment to
(REDACTED}. We have been advised that the payment was kicked
back by the subject[‘]s bank (don’t have account info yet) due to the
center[‘]s account being frozen by OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset
Control). {REDACTED) it appears the owner of the child care center is
associated with a TALIBAN official, which is why the account was
ordered frozen.

As if that weren’t enough, the internal DHS email,

notes that a redacted individual (likely the same mentioned above) is likely connected to yet another center and has visited Edmonton 11 times, Malaysia 2 times, Somalia 42 times and Kenya 33 times.

Your tax dollars at work. As I mentioned, the committee staff report runs some 205 pages. We will keep digging.