And we’re here today to discuss a sweeping, unprecedented, and historically successful operation that my administration has carried out in recent weeks to arrest, prosecute, and permanently remove members of foreign drug cartels from American soil.

It started in Virginia, but it ended in a prison cell in Minnesota.

The first domino fell early this morning when the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Nathansson.

Federal agents seized phones and laptops, confirming that the leak they were hunting was real.

But the story Nathansen was chasing wasn’t just a leak.

It was the blueprint of a federal betrayal.

4:47 a.m. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

While the news broke in Virginia, the real operation was already underway in the frozen streets of the Twin Cities.

The city slept beneath a blanket of darkness.

The temperature was 11°.

Streets were empty.

But inside a federal command center three blocks away, FBI special agent Marcus Chun stood motionless before a digital map.

For 9 months, his team had been building a web of surveillance.

Every dot on that map represented a target.

Every line connected back to a single source, Judge Leila Mahed.

Judge Mahad was a pillar of the community.

For 11 years, she had worn the black robe presiding over immigration hearings.

To the public, she was compassionate and tough.

 

 

 

She decided who stayed in America and who was deported.

But federal investigators knew the truth.

Judge Mahed wasn’t just presiding over cases.

She was monetizing them.

At 4:52 a.

m.

, the order came through.

Execute immediately.

This was not a routine arrest.

This was a decapitation strike against a corruption network that had compromised the United States judicial system.

Between January 2021 and December 2024, Judge Mahed had approved 3,847 asylum applications under standard procedure.

A single case takes months, background checks, interviews, document verification.

But Judge Mahed’s cases were being approved in hours.

A routine audit in March 2023 flagged the anomaly.

214 approvals processed in a single week.

It was statistically impossible.

When the Treasury Department opened a parallel investigation, they found the reason why.

The price of American citizenship was $18,000.

Payments were routed through shell companies registered in Nevada, Delaware, and Wyoming.

Entities with names like Global Consulting Services and Horizon Legal Solutions.

They looked like law firms.

They were actually fronts for the Somali Brotherhood Network.

This criminal syndicate tracked by federal agents since 2019 operated across seven states from Minnesota to Maine and as far west as California.

Their business model was simple.

Smuggle people in, forge the documents by the judge.

In just 4 years, Judge Mahed processed $69.

2 million in fraudulent immigration approvals.

Latest attempt to restrict the amount of migrants who claim asylum between ports of entry at the southern border.

Treasury analysts confirmed wire transfers matching that exact amount moving through her offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands in Dubai.

But the network didn’t just move people, they moved contraband.

The Somali Brotherhood used the cover of legal immigration to smuggle and cash inside shipments that Judge Mahad ensured nobody looked at too closely.

At 5:30 a.

m.

, the federal convoy moved out.

18 unmarked vehicles from the FBI, DEA, ICE, and the US Marshall Service cut through the silent streets.

No sirens, no lights, just engines and purpose.

They were converging on seven locations simultaneously.

The primary target was Judge Mahed’s chambers.

The secondary targets included her home in the wealthy Adena neighborhood and three warehouses in suburban industrial zones.

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At 5:18 a.

m.

, the first breach occurred.

A battering ram struck the reinforced door of Judge Mahed’s downtown office.

The frame splintered.

Agents poured inside with guns drawn.

Federal agents search warrant.

The office was empty, but the evidence was there.

Agent Chun led the recovery team.

Behind a false panel in the wall, they found the first cash.

Customs and Border Protection has seized over $14,000 in cash from two Somali born US citizens.

11 encrypted cell phones.

These were burner devices, each linked to a different contact in the criminal underworld.

The names listed on the screens were code logistics coordinator was actually Abdi Hassan, a known community organizer was Farah Osman, a money courier.

The phones contained 4,216 messages.

These weren’t conversations, they were orders.

Clear the transfer by Wednesday.

Approve application 7,741.

No interview.

Ensure no secondary review.

This was the smoking gun.

Judge Mahed was issuing direct commands to bypass national security protocols.

Inside a locked filing cabinet, agents found the ledgers, handwritten notebooks detailing every bribe, case number, date, amount.

One ledger alone listed 892 fraudulent approvals.

Each one was marked with a red check and linked to a payment between 15,000 and $22,000.

While the office was being swept, the tactical team breached Judge Mahed’s $ 1.

9 million home in Adena.

In the master bedroom, they found three safes.

Safe one, $340,000 in cash, stacks of $100 bills bound with rubber bands.

Safe two, 23 passports with different names but identical photos, members of the same criminal cell.

Save three.

Four encrypted hard drives.

These drives contain the holy grail of the investigation.

Video recordings of meetings between a sitting federal judge and cartel operatives.

Audio files detailing payment negotiations.

Bank records showing $127 million in wire transfers.

But the most terrifying discovery happened at 5:44 a.

m.

in Brooklyn Park.

The third team hit a warehouse registered as a storage facility for household goods.

When agents breached the loading dock, they didn’t find furniture.

They found a distribution hub for the cartel.

The first crate opened contained 63 AR-15 rifles with no serial numbers and full auto modifications.

The second crate held 240,000 rounds of And then DEA agents uncovered 127 vacuum-sealed brick.

The total weight was 279 lbs.

Analysts calculated that this amount alone could produce 63 is enough to kill every person in Minnesota three times over.

Authorities are calling it the largest drug bust in Minnesota history with almost a,000 lbs of meth taken off the streets.

Manifests found on a clipboard nearby detailed shipments scheduled for 14 cities including Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, and New York.

All were set to depart within the next 10 days.

The raid had stopped a mass casualty event.

Simultaneously in Bloomington, agents raided a townhouse that revealed a massive forgery operation.

They seized 418 professionally forged documents, social security cards, driver’s licenses, and embassy seals from six different countries.

But as the evidence piled up, one question remained, where was the judge? At 6:41 a.

m.

, the alert came through.

An ICE agent at Minneapolis Street Paul International Airport flagged suspicious activity.

A private jet had filed a flight plan to Dubai.

Departure was scheduled for 7:15 a.

m.

The passenger manifest listed one name.

Leila Mahad.

Agent Chun grabbed his radio.

All units target is attempting to flee the country.

Interdiction authorized.

Six federal vehicles tore toward Terminal 2, ignoring speed limits.

Judge Mahad was walking calmly through the private aviation lounge.

She wore a black coat and carried a single leather bag.

She looked like any other wealthy traveler.

She believed she was untouchable.

At 6:58 a.

m.

the agents entered the lounge.

Lay them ahead.

You are under arrest? She turned slowly.

No shock, no panic, just cold calculation.

On what charges? She asked.

Corruption, racketeering, conspiracy, immigration fraud, money laundering.

Shall I continue? Her arrogance was absolute.

As they cuffed her, she whispered three words that agents later put in their report.

You have no idea what you’ve just done.

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By 8:15 a.

m.

, federal prosecutors had unsealed a 74-page indictment.

The charges against Judge Mahed were catastrophic.

18 counts of corruption, 23 counts of wire fraud, nine counts of racketeering.

If convicted on all counts, she faced 340 years in federal prison.

But the indictment didn’t stop with her.

It named 29ers, smugglers, money launderers, and forggers operating under her protection.

By noon, coordinated arrests were taking place in seven states.

Agents arrested Abdi Hassan and seized $1.

2 million in cash.

Last week, a crackdown in New Hampshire netted dozens of arrests and $100,000.

In San Diego, agents raided a warehouse belonging to Tahir Ysef and found 89 and 341 kg.

The network crumbled in hours, but the investigation revealed a systemic rot that went far deeper than one judge.

Between 2021 and 2024, Judge Mahed had communicated with 11 other immigration officials, judges, case managers, and asylum officers.

The Department of Justice identified 19 federal employees under investigation.

The total scope was national.

Investigators discovered that approximately 47,000 asylum applications had been approved fraudulently across the country during this period.

The financial impact was estimated at $1.

4 billion in defrauded benefits.

But the human cost was worse.

The weapons seized in the warehouse were ballistically matched to 23 unsolved homicides were linked to 89 overdosed.

Judge Mahed had blood on her hands.

On March 18th, 2025, her trial began.

The evidence was overwhelming.

The prosecution played the tapes.

They showed the ledgers.

They read the text messages.

On April 22nd, the jury deliberated for just 11 hours before returning a verdict.

Guilty on all counts.

At the sentencing hearing, Judge Mahed stood before her peer, a fellow federal judge who looked down at her with disgust.

“You were entrusted with one of the most important responsibilities in our legal system.

” The sentencing judge said, “You sold justice for cash.

You enabled criminals.

You endangered innocent lives.

” The sentence was handed down.

28 years in federal prison, no parole.

She was ordered to forfeit assets totaling $31.

7 million and pay restitution to victims as she was led out in handcuffs.

The reality set in she would die in a cage, but the fallout continues.

By August 2025, 41 other officials had been convicted.

The federal government seized a total of $487 million in dirty assets.

Reforms were swift.

Fraudulent asylum approvals dropped by 91% by the end of the year.

This case proved that corruption doesn’t announce itself.

It hides behind titles and robes.

It hides behind the facade of compassion.

But when the federal government decides to look, the evidence is always there.

Judge Mah had thought she was the law.

Now she is a prisoner of it.

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