Steve Robinson

A small community in Maine is calling for accountability tonight after they say money for mass shooting victims instead went to Somali-linked nonprofits.

You'll likely recall that in October, 2023, 18 people were killed in Lewiston, Maine, when a US Army reservist opened fire at a bowling alley in a bar and grill.

In the wake of the shooting, a local nonprofit created a fund promising that 100% of the money would go to the victims.

Generous donors gave millions of dollars, but a large chunk of that money did not go to victims.

That's part of the outrage.

Where it ended up is the other part.

Well, for about 25 years, Maine has been an end destination for migration from Somalis, Somali refugees, primarily in and around Lewiston.

In 2019, there were waves of Central Africans who began to show up in Maine, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, some Haitians and some Rwandans as well.

And the Democratic Party, which by and large has controlled the state,

both houses of the legislature and the governor's mansion, welcomed this.

Governor Janet Mills actually put out as her official workforce policy that she wanted to recruit another 75,000 migrant workers to the state of Maine in order to reverse what she said was a demographic decline.

Multiple Democratic leaders complained about the state being too white.

So none of this really has been

happening in secret.

It wasn't like we had to break into an office to find these documents or these recordings.

They've been publicly advertising that this was their plan.

What we found in investigating through thousands of documents of government contracts was a very organized and deliberate scheme to pipe COVID-19 money, federal money from the Biden administration that had been given to the state of Maine,

as well as Medicaid funds into some of the most radical NGOs in this state.

We're talking about organizations that are run by Somali refugees, as well as migrants from all over the country.

These are nonprofits and businesses that exist solely to use taxpayer money for the benefit of people from out of state or even out of the country.