A former Transportation Security Administration agent says she repeatedly witnessed suitcases filled with millions of dollars in cash being transported through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, raising alarms about long-running failures by authorities to intervene despite what she described as a clear and consistent pattern.

Liz Jaksa, who worked as a TSA agent at MSP for five years, detailed what she said were frequent encounters with Somali men traveling in pairs and carrying large amounts of cash through airport security.

Speaking with journalist Liz Collin, Jaksa said the first discovery left a lasting impression.

“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. It just really, absolutely blew my mind. The first time you open a suitcase and you see millions of dollars of cash,” Jaksa said.

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According to Jaksa, the encounters followed a consistent process.

TSA agents would pull the bags aside, open them in private screening rooms, and confirm the contents were stacks of cash.

Law enforcement officers would then verify identification, which Jaksa said created a record that could still exist.

“Typically, what would happen is Leo or a law enforcement officer would come check their credentials. I don't know what kind of questions they ask them, but, but their IDs were always documented, and probably their plane tickets as well,” she said.

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“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.”

Collin pressed Jaksa on the frequency of the activity, noting the scale involved.

“Obviously, this seems suspicious, if not alarming, given what seems to be a pattern here. So you're talking about millions of dollars flying out of Minneapolis. And you think it it happened about every week or so. Is that right?” Collin asked.

Jaksa said the activity appeared routine. “So it certainly seemed like it happened every week,” she said.

“Um, the suitcases came in and it was, it was always the M.O. was always too. Somalian men traveling in pairs, um, sometimes they both had suitcases.”

Based on her years at the airport, Jaksa estimated the total amount of cash moved through MSP was staggering.

“In the five years I was there, I believe a billion dollars went through the airport,” she said.

Collin noted that the allegations went beyond cash alone.

“$1 billion as if this isn't troubling enough. Liz, it's not just money you watched leave. MSP, is that right?” she asked.

“Yes, that is correct,” Jaksa replied. She described a separate incident involving travel documents.

“There was another instance, again, a small man that had a carry on luggage filled with brand new passports, and he was allowed to get through the checkpoint. So where he went with those passports is anybody's guess.”

Jaksa said she raised concerns at the time but felt the response was indifferent.

Reflecting on the situation years later, she said the broader fraud now coming to light made those experiences clearer.

“I didn't feel good about it then and now. It certainly all makes sense,” she said.

Collin referenced reporting that linked Minnesota fraud to terrorism financing and asked Jaksa whether her firsthand experience aligned with those findings.

“Judging by what you saw for yourself during the time you were a TSA agent, do you think there's any truth to this?” Collin asked.

“Absolutely knowing what I know now, absolutely, there's no question in my mind that that money went to Al Shabaab,” Jaksa said.

Jaksa said the lack of urgency at the time has been difficult to process.

“Well, it's been uncomfortable because at the time, seems so lackadaisical that these people could get through the airport with all that cash time after time after time. It wasn't a one time thing,” she said.

She also expressed frustration with current state leadership, arguing that accountability is long overdue.

“It was frustrating when I was a TS agent, and it's certainly frustrating now watching the state's administration doing what they what they're doing,” Jaksa said.

“You know, Walz and Omar, honestly, they should both resign and shame.”

Jaksa said she chose to speak publicly because she believes Minnesotans deserve to know what she witnessed.

“Because I think Minnesotans need to know that billions of dollars left through the airport, and it was it was cash, it was literally suitcases full of cash,” she said.

Asked what message she would send to state leaders, Jaksa said the situation should never have been allowed to continue.

“That this just should not be allowed to happen when they come through the airport. Absolutely should not be able to bring suitcases full of cash who goes with millions of dollars in a suitcase, week after week, time after time, year after year, and all Somali people.”

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