#273 Steve Robinson - How Somali Criminal Networks Are Stealing Millions of Dollars

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan Show

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Steven Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire, leads New England’s fastest-growing digital media outlet focused on exposing political corruption and organized crime across local, state, and regional levels. A native of Dexter, Maine, and Bowdoin College graduate in political philosophy, he previously worked at Regnery Publishing, produced the Howie Carr Show, and handled Barstool Sports' Kirk Minihane Show and true-crime podcast The Case, which spurred murder charges per season. During COVID-19, he quit his job to travel 35,000 miles across North America in a camper van before returning to Maine in November 2022 to revitalize the Maine Wire as an aggressive, independent platform for underreported stories, bold investigations, and commentary. Robinson's groundbreaking "Triad Weed" series, launched in August 2023 after a leaked DHS memo revealed over 270 illicit cannabis operations by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations in Maine, uncovered a vast Chinese mafia network spanning Maine to southeast China. His reporting exposed racketeering involving black-market cannabis, human and sex trafficking, money laundering, bank fraud, illegal border crossings, neurotoxins poisoning homes, murder, and national security threats—including CCP-linked properties near U.S. Army facilities. He provided exclusive details on the exploitation of U.S. Treasury–subsidized loans that allowed foreign nationals to purchase over 70 properties. Cited in Congressional reports and featured on CBS, Fox News, the Daily Mail, OANN, and more, Robinson's work has led to over 60 articles, property raids, arrests, Sen. Susan Collins' interrogations of intel agencies, and the documentary Triad Weed: How Chinese Mafia Infiltrated Maine. Local police praise it as a field manual, though Maine media avoids the story. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Get firearm security redesigned and save 10% off @StopBoxUSA with code SRS at https://www.stopboxusa.com/srs #stopboxpod Put your money to work with Stash—visit get.stash.com/SRS to receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and view important disclosures. https://bubsnaturals.com – USE CODE SHAWN Ready to upgrade your eyewear? Check them out at https://roka.com and use code SRS for 20% off sitewide. Steve Robinson Links: X - https://x.com/BigSteve207 X - https://x.com/TheMaineWire Substack - https://robinsonreport.substack.com The Maine Wire - https://www.themainewire.com High Crimes Documentary - https://tuckercarlson.com/high-crimes Harpe - https://getharpe.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Steve Robinson.
0:06.0	Thank you for having to be back.
0:09.0	What have you been up to other than boofing?
0:11.0	Well, you know, I take a break every once in a while.
0:15.0	Oh, man.
0:16.0	To investigate Somali fraud.
0:19.0	Oh, shit. Yeah, I didn't expect to see you back so soon, but all the Somali
0:25.5	fraud that has been uncovered, you've been on this for a long time. So, you know, we interviewed Nick.
0:32.2	It was fucking awesome. And then we thought we'd get more into the weeds and bring you back on
0:37.1	since you've been, you've been hammering this for years.
0:40.3	Well, you know, it's wild is when we were talking about Chinese organized crime, we'd already reported all of the information about Gateway Community Services.
0:49.3	I mean, months prior to when we met the first time, we'd already reported the significant facts.
0:54.8	The whistleblower had already come forward.
0:56.9	But it was being ignored by the local media.
0:59.2	And of course, none of the Democratic politicians were reacting to it or acknowledging it.
1:03.7	They were saying, oh, it's fake news.
1:05.6	You can't believe the conservative media.
1:08.3	It took Rich McHugh from News Nation, saw this and was like, this is wild.
1:13.8	There's fraud going on in Maine, just like there is in Minnesota. And he amplified it and did a
1:19.6	report on it. And then all of a sudden there was just a feeding frenzy. Like I hadn't seen before.
1:23.4	It was just the national media descended. and I was getting so many emails and messages
1:28.3	from people who were like,
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