Minnesota Freedom Fund took in more than $41 million after an endorsement from Kamala Harris, and then used the cash to spring violent criminals
A Minnesota non-profit committed to helping impoverished defendants pay cash bail, received a huge windfall in donations after Kamala Harris endorsed them.rake in millions of dollars, which it spent on getting violent criminals back on the streets in the name of “social justice” — only for some of them to commit more crimes, including murder.
The fund, started in 2016, raked in $41,655,560, according to its 2020 tax filings — a huge windfall compared to previous years when it took in between $100,000 and $230,000 in annual donations, according to public records. Since 2016, MFF has paid $21.2 million in cash bail and $4.8 million for immigration bonds, freeing 2,537 people from pre-trial detention and 463 from immigration detention, A crime watchdog group in Minneapolis which monitors the fund’s bail initiatives and crime in the city called Harris’s actions endorsing the group “irresponsible.”
Despite the huge influx of cash, MFF listed a loss of $6.7 million on its 2022 federal filings, the latest available.The Minnesota Freedom Fund paid $350,000 in cash for the release of Christopher Don Boswell in 2020, according to the local site Alphanews.com.When he was bailed out, Boswell was facing ten felony counts including attempted rape, sexual assault and kidnapping against two women, according to local news reports.
Boswell, now aged 41, was convicted of criminal sexual assault in the first degree, promoting prostitution, stalking and assault with a dangerous weapon last year over the 2022 incidents.Less than a month later, Howard was arrested on a murder charge, accused of shooting another man — Luis Martinez Ortiz —
Howard, who also goes by the name Ricco Lamont Passmore, 50, pleaded guilty last year. He is scheduled to be released in 2031.Lionel Melaki Timms, now 36, was bailed out by MFF for $10,000 in cash bail after being charged with committing a felony third-degree assault, causing substantial bodily harm, aboard a bus in Bloomington in July 2020.
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