When it comes to Somali fraud, Maine is the next Minnesota. And the perpetrators are just as shameless.
There was a mass shooting at a bowling alley in Maine in Oct 2023. The victims were almost all white men. None were Somali.
Money was quickly raised from good people to help the families and their victims. Donors were told that 100% of the money would go to the victims. Instead, in a story familiar from 9/11 and the LA fires, a whole bunch of the money was clawed away for ‘community nonprofits’ that had nothing to do with the victims or their families.
The Maine Community Foundation established the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund after an October 2023 shooting at a bowling alley left 18 people dead and 13 wounded. Victims and family members say they were told repeatedly that all donations would go directly to survivors and families.
“They told us that night that 100 percent of the funds would go to the victims,” said Jennifer Zanca, a nurse who was shot twice during the attack and applied pressure to her own wound to avoid bleeding out. “And then I received the email, too, to say that.”
Nine of the 29 organizations that received funding serve only immigrant communities, including Empowered Immigrant Women Unite, Generation Noor, New Mainers Public Health Initiative, the Somali Bantu Community Association and Gateway Community Services.
Those are Somali settler groups. ‘New Mainers’ is a euphemism for third world mass migration.
Meanwhile the victims had such traditional Somali names as Joseph Walker, Bryan MacFarlane, Joshua Seal, Peyton Brewer-Ross, Ronald Morin, Max Hathaway, Stephen Voezzela, Thomas Conrad, Michael Deslauriers, Jason Walker, Lucille Violette, William Brackett, Aaron Young, William Young, Tricia Asselin and Keith Macneir.
Not a single Mohammed among them. But the Mohammeds cashed in anyway.
One of the councilmembers allegedly involved has stepped down.
Iman Osman, a Somali refugee who heads the Lewiston Auburn Youth Network, stepped down from the council position he had just won this week. His organization received $65,000 from the fund established after the October 2023 shooting that killed 18 people.
Osman, who faces felony gun charges and was under investigation for his residency, did not give a reason for his resignation.
Jennifer Zanca, who was shot twice during the attack, said the revelation didn’t upset her until she faced a $93,000 hospital bill she couldn’t cover.
“It didn’t really hit me and really upset me until I was in a position with a $93,000 hospital bill that I couldn’t cover,” Zanca said.
But the Somalis needed it more.
