🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 26, 2025
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My Comment:
The above video has 100 million views and has gone absurdly viral. It's pretty rare for a post to go quite that viral on X these days so that's an accomplishment. The video was by an independent journalists that simply went up to daycares in Minnesota and asked them if they had any kids, or tried to enroll. The response was not what you would expect if they were legitimate businesses, and no children were apparently found. These daycares were taking in millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, all for these ghost students. Shirley estimates that he uncovered at least $100 million in fraud.
Reuters hedged a lot on their reporting here, they absolutely didn't want to cite Shirley's video. The mainstream media has largely downplayed these scandals in Minnesota, the allegations over the weekend are certainly not the only ones. Indeed, the FBI resources sent to Minnesota have a lot more to do with the fraud from those earlier investigations than the more recent ones.
Democrats too appear to be downplaying the scandal. Instead of cutting Tim Walz and Ilhan Omar loose, they are doubling down on defending them. I am thinking they are just hoping that this issue will simply go away or they can successfully reframe the whole thing as racism. But I just don't see that happening this time.
Why? Because I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am guessing if investigations continue, they will find more programs that the Somali community has use to defraud taxpayers. So far it's been food programs and daycares, but I am sure there are a lot of more programs in the state that has Somali based grift. And keep in mind, remittances from these programs are being funneled to Somalia, where it is fueling both sides of that country's Civil War, including the terror group, al-Shabaab.
I have no doubt that there are similar levels of fraud in other states with large Somali populations. Minnesota is obviously the biggest, but there are other states that have them as well, including my state of Wisconsin. I am guessing if investigations were started in my state they would find similar problems, though probably not on the scale they have in Minnesota.
This whole scandal gives me vibes of the Afghanistan debacle, of all things. During that war, the Afghan Army had, on paper, a large and powerful army. But it was mostly a lie as many of the soldiers listed on the records were "ghost soldiers", soldiers that only really existed on paper, and were not actually fighting. They were just drawing benefits. This is another example of a similar concept where these students didn't actually exist but the daycares were getting benefits based on these "ghost students". A similar problem was found with Minnesota's autism program, where Somali children were being diagnosed for the benefits and then left without any help, because they weren't in fact autistic.
This scandal just feels incredibly embarrassing to me as an American. I brought up the "ghost soldier" problems in Afghanistan and Iraq as I used to argue that it was a major reason why US support there was mostly pointless. Given that Afghanistan fell and Iraq almost did, I was right. To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. America has always had issues with fraud but it usually isn't this blatant or as "third world" as we are seeing in Minnesota.
The worst part of this is how unnesecery all of this was. We never had any reason to bring these people into the country in the first place. Somali was never our responsibility. We did go there back in the 1990's to help starving people, but it just ended with the Battle of Mogadishu and 18 dead soldiers, most of them from the Army Rangers. At that point we had done enough and should have just thrown up our hands, but instead we allowed these people to come here and we didn't even keep an eye on what they are doing, and now we have third world fraud in our first world country. None of this needed to happen.
And I think that this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Somali community has drawn most of the attention, but I am guessing this kind of thing is extremely common in blue states. And it's not just coming from immigrant communities, but American born ones as well. The problem is the lack of prosecution and the huge number of social programs that have little in the way of oversite. The Somalis have been the most blatant about it, but I am guessing that every state has a lot of fraud like this and much of it is centered on blue states with generous social welfare programs. People go to where the money is and when you can steal it without fear, why wouldn't you?
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