TSA Whistleblower: Somalis Regularly Flew Out with Suitcases Stuffed with Millions in Cash
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A former TSA agent at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport detailed repeated encounters with Somali men carrying suitcases packed with cash and, in one case, a bag filled with new passports.
In an interview, Liz Jaksa told journalist Liz Collin that she witnessed these incidents regularly during her five years at the airport.
“2016 to 2021, Liz, thank you for joining me,” Collin said at the start of the discussion.
You’re welcome. Thank you. Liz, I applaud you and Alpha News,” Jaksa replied.
Collin asked Jaksa to describe what she had observed.
“We appreciate that. I have to say, though, this sounds like something out of a spy movie, people going through security and getting on planes with suitcases filled with millions of dollars in cash. Tell us what you’ve actually seen as a TSA agent during the time you worked there?”
Jaksa said large cash transfers were not isolated events.
“Well, I’ve actually seen a lot of things, but the most shocking is exactly that I saw suitcases filled with millions of dollars of cash, and the couriers were always small. He meant traveling in pairs, and they got through the checkpoint. I And it just, it just really, absolutely blew my mind. The first time you open a suitcase and you see millions of dollars of cash,” she said.
According to Jaksa, law enforcement routinely documented the couriers.
“And typically, what would happen is a Leo or a law enforcement officer would come check their credentials. I don’t know what kind of questions they asked them, but, but their IDs were always documented, and probably their plane tickets as well. So so there is a trail of that out there, and I would believe, with all the cameras at the airport, that if they started there, they could probably find each and every individual that brought money through the checkpoint,” she said.