Anyone else following this Minneapolis daycare potential fraud story playing out in America?

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I’ve obviously been entangled in an algorithm but it’s fascinating.

He is a YouTuber not an investigative journalist.

It's nothing other than racism.

Same as with the Haitians eating your cats and dogs

As ever, it’s the reaction that is the biggest problem 🙄

Thats not the fault of the person who asked the question, should he have kept quite when he found pretty damning evidence of fraud of public funds?

Yet he doesn't know anything about child safety.

Would you be happy if your children's day care let in some random blokes wanting to film them?

Or would you sue the nursery if they did?

Do you have access to the stolen documents?

You are wilfully missing the point.

It wasn’t actually a day care centre. There were no children. They just pretended to be one.

But there aren't any children there, that's the whole point.

Right. And I guess this “break in” where every piece of documentation pertaining to each child attending the centre was “stolen” is also just a racist attack? 🧐

www.newsweek.com/minnesota-day-care-documents-kids-stolen-robbery-11291410

Is fraud etc common among the Minnesota Diaspora?

According to this story and also a massive increase in children being diagnosed with “autism” and claiming associated benefits and financial support - amongst the Somalian community. Here’s a link. There’s plenty more.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/six-additional-defendants-charged-one-defendant-pleads-guilty-ongoing-fraud-schemes

Here is another:-

www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/10/10/research-finds-1-in-16-somali-children-diagnosed-with-autism-three-times-more-than-state

They are also investigating medical centres (like a gp surgery) where you can’t sign up as a patient

there have already been over 90 prosecutions. Mostly from the Somalian community - I think around 83 Somalian and 7 were not of those 90

I’m reading…. The chief instigator in the fraud is a white American woman. The so called well known “reporter” has a mother who was accused of fraud. They went early morning, so of course there were no kids. Would you let a random man into your place of business if there were young children there?
as you said, the algorithm is pushing different versions based on who you follow.

Also fraud related to Covid financial aid…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/fbi-minnesota-fraud-schemes-somalia

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I saw this and was really surprised that it seemed like no one actually visited these settings to confirm how they were run, surely that would be a bigger safeguarding issue than people complaining this bloke uncovered this apparent fraud by asking to see the children whilst knowing there weren't any actual children.

I'm amazed so many seem to have missed the point entirely that there never was any children.

what does his mother have to do with it? That’s an odd flex….

More details of various fraud investigations here, going back to way before this new child care centre debacle.

oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-launches-investigation-into-massive-fraud-in-minnesotas-social-services-system-on-governor-walzs-watch/

Her husbands company has done very well.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5662600/nick-shirley-minnesota-daycare-fraud

@DuncinToffee npr is hardly a neutral source.

The stuff about the covid fraud and the food program fraud is factual though right?

The investigation didn’t even originate with Nick Shirley either, there was some other man who is being protected I think who had been observing the situation for months/years and he approached various investigative types but NS was the only one who picked up the story.

How lucky for them, and all in the 5 years since they married and she’s been a US representative.