About Those Minneapolis (aka Mini-Somalia) “Nonprofit” Millionaires

The recent exposure of the latest Somalian immigrant scams in Minnesota exposes how many “nonprofit” organizations have been set up not as charitable or educational institutions but as racketeering scams to fleece the taxpayers and/or naive donors. Jim Bennet and I wrote about the government funding aspect of it in our 1985 book, Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics. We had a data base of billions of federal dollars given to myriad nonprofits to supposedly aid widows orphans, heal the maimed, cure the heartbreak of psoriasis, and many other virtuous-sounding causes. In reality, little or nothing is spent on these issues; the nonprofit managers pay themselves lavish salaries, and they share the loot with the politicians (for their campaigns) who arranged for the grants in the first place. This is exactly what is going on with the Somalian swindlers in Minnesota. ( I once told Murray Rothbard about this and he responded with “those bastards!”).

Then there are the fundraising racketeers like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which sits on a three-quarters-of-a-billion dollar endowment/hedge fund. You can alternatively help a lot of poor people with all that loot.

Doug French has published a monograph on how many “movements” are seemingly programmed to turn into fundraising rackets of this sort eventually.

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