Only in Minnesota. Two (2) state government agencies knowingly hired the same Kenyan-born, illegal alien, convicted felon, registered sex offender to do (get this) internal audit work. Now that’s a DEI hire.
In his most recent stint with the state Dept. of Education (MDE), Wilson Nguri Tindi, age 42, rose to the highest rank available in the state career civil service. MDE is that same agency that oversaw the nation’s largest COVID-related fraud scandal, known as Feeding Our Future. So, internal auding should be a big deal?
Tindi remains on the state payroll but apparently has been relieved as his position as the agency’s Chief Audit Officer.
Scott noted the Tindi case earlier. No local legacy media will touch the story, which was first reported as an Exclusive by Alpha News (with a follow-up report this evening).
I dug deeper into the case at AmericanExperiment.Org, and reprint my report here.
Piecing together the story from court records and Tindi’s LinkedIn account, we have the following timeline.
- 2005: Tindi enters U.S. on tourist visa, overstays
- 2007: application for permanent residency denied
- March 2009: ordered removed by immigration judge
- April 2014: became a permanent resident of U.S.
- Dec. 2014: arrested for felony burglary and felony criminal sexual conduct
- Feb. 2016: convicted on felony sexual conduct (plea deal), 2-year prison sentence (stayed), to serve 135 days in county workhouse, register as sex felon, 5 years’ probation
- August 2016: taken into custody by DHS/ICE
- May 2017: ordered removed again. Appeals court stayed removal order, pending court decision.
- Feb. 9, 2018: ordered released from ICE custody by federal judge, pending state appeal
- Feb. 20, 2018: appeal of state conviction is denied.
- Feb. 23, 2018: files petition in state court to change his name (withdrawn, April 2018)
- Sept. 2018: hired by the state of Minnesota as an auditor
At the time Tindi begins state employment, he was a convicted felon, still on probation, and a registered predatory offender. He was also the subject of a (stayed) order of removal. Is there no vetting done? Or did he exactly meet a desired DEI profile?
My favorite part of the county workhouse episode is that Mr. Tindi originally wanted to serve those days in Wisconsin. But when he found out that he would (under Wisconsin law) have to register as a sex offender for life, rather than the mere 10 years as under Minnesota law, he withdrew his transfer request.
If there is one thing that Mr. Tindi has enjoyed during his 20-year visit to our fair land is an abundance of due process. By my count, he has heard his cases heard by the following bodies:
- state district courts
- state appeals court
- federal district court
- federal appeals court
- immigration court
- board of immigration appeals
That he has lost at every level hasn’t led to his deportation.
Court filings indicate that he is no longer considered a permanent resident. If he left the country voluntarily, his re-entry would be barred by Border Patrol.
He appears to have worked first for the state Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as his name appears on in internal state document to that effect,
According to Tindi’s LinkedIn profile, he was promoted in May 2023. It’s not clear if this position was at MPCA or MDE. He appears to have been promoted to MDE Director in December 2023.
As Alpha News first noted, Tindi no longer appears on MDE’s executive org chart.
His name still appears, however, on the state government’s official website as a Dept. of Education employee, albeit under a different job title.
Early last month, Tindi was arrested for drunk driving, weaving and speeding his way through Golden Valley at 2:30 in the early Saturday morning of June 7. He refused the breath test. He was released on bond and is due back in court in August.
Among the remaining mysteries: why hasn’t ICE/DHS renewed removal proceedings? How did he get hired and promoted by state government? How is he still employed by state government?
As to the first question, Alpha News is out with an update, quoting DHS, “We will get this sicko out.”
How soon is now?
