➡ Nick Shirley, a citizen investigator, exposed widespread fraud in Minnesota’s childcare centers, leading to the freezing of $185 million in funding. His video, which gained over 100 million views, revealed that many centers receiving funds showed no signs of being operational, with blacked-out windows and no children present. Despite facing criticism and accusations of conspiracy, Shirley’s work has sparked a conversation about accountability and the misuse of taxpayer dollars. His efforts highlight the need for vigilance and transparency in public funding.
➡ The article discusses potential fraud in childcare centers located in unusual areas with minimal play equipment and few children. It also covers the impact of frequent firings of inspectors general by President Trump, which has been deemed illegal and damaging to oversight capabilities. The politicization of these appointments negatively affects staff morale and efficacy. The article ends by suggesting that Congress should take more robust, nonpartisan oversight steps to prevent fraud and improve government efforts to help the American people.

The funding amounts. We looked at the centers that received CCAP funds and then we just we listed them out. We had what was originally referred to as the top 100 list and it was based off of centers receiving the most CCAP funding and that was generated through the billing process. It is made up, incidentally, overwhelmingly of U.S. citizens. 95% of Somalis in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, including 58% of whom were… Thank you for your time and your commitment to ensuring accountability within publicly funded… Chairman Biggs, Ranking Member MacBath, and members of the Subcommittee.

I appreciate the opportunity to testify before you today on the important issues of law buying tax-paying citizens here inside of the United States. I’ve helped bring the light, widespread fraud that’s happening inside our nation and we the people have had enough of our hard-earned money going towards fraudsters as if it’s no big deal. As I speak here, I want to ask everyone a question. How much do we trust when we pay our taxes it’s going to benefit our nation? People erupted during the Boston Tea Party over just a few percentages as they believe they’re being taxed without representation.

Nowadays we have the representation but do we trust our representatives? My name is Nick Shirley and I made a 41-minute video that I posted on platforms like X and YouTube. My video received over 100 million views and it created instant change within our government. As the federal government launched investigations and departments… Did these videos do over 100 million views? Good gosh! Such as Health and Human Services rose over 185 million dollars in child care funding until businesses can prove they are legitimate businesses. I actually became aware of the fraud that was happening in Minnesota in June of 2025 as I was there for a separate video and Minnesotans started reaching out to me asking if I was making a video on the fraud.

I said well what what fraud? And this lady she was a real estate agent and she says well I’m having a hard time selling my properties because people are curious about these assisted livings that are popping up next door to some of the houses that we’re buying or the home health care clinics that are popping up and we don’t know who’s next to these houses that we’re trying to sell. And I said well I’m not going to come and make a video if I don’t have any proof so therefore I left Minnesota and I continued to look for fraud as in the best way I could.

And as I was getting my own information a man by the name of David reached out to me he said hey I have been investigating this fraud for years now. I have been driving by these child care centers. I’ve never seen a single child and I have received information from the state of Minnesota as to how much money these places are receiving. I said great let me come to Minnesota and we’ll make this video about potential fraud that was taking place inside of Minnesota. We go to a daycare and I’m instantly surprised by what we see.

We arrived and it was an industrialized building and there was two daycares registered at that daycare at that building. And the first thing I noticed is all the windows are blacked out and there’s no footprints in the snow of any children. There’s no playgrounds or anything that would make it look like it’s a child care. But above me a sign read open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. But there was nobody there. The doorbell did not even work. And then we continued to go to other daycares and we noticed the same pattern. No children, blacked out windows, and one daycare, a learning center spelled quality leering center instead of quality learning center.

They had received 1.9 million dollars yet with that 1.9 million dollars they could not even spell leering right on their sign. Governor Waltz has said he’s been fighting fraud in Minnesota since 2019 and said the buck stops with him. However, how long would it take for you to notice a million dollars leaving your bank account and not knowing where it’s going? And that’s why I know that these legislators be lying because they’re not really fighting fraud. They’re just using that to fill budgetary holes. How do you not even notice that the sign above the building says leering instead of learning? And how do you not even see any footsteps or footprints in the snow but you’re doing quality checks? Who gives out 2 million dollars a year and don’t even go and check out the business? This is why people need to be more vigilant with their tax dollars.

That’s essentially what had been happening in Minnesota for years as billions of dollars has been misplaced. And meanwhile while people like Governor Tim Waltz call people like me a white supremacist delusional conspiracy theorist, he actually decided to drop out of reelection because I believe of how deep in the extensive this fraud is. Thank you very much. Since my reporting the HHS department froze over 185 million dollars and to this day not a single business has been able to prove proof of legitimacy. How fast would you be proving that you are a legitimate business if you have children to actually feed and to take care of? You’d be sending in that paperwork instantly.

Facts. I made this video to document the widespread fraud that has been taking place as I truly believe all fraud is bad. And thank you Emma. People like me, my generation, we’re sick of seeing tax dollars go towards fraud. We just want to have the same opportunities that our fathers and our grandparents had. And when you see people making millions of dollars by committing fraud it upsets everybody from all age demographics. And so I hope today we can have a good conversation and I think we can all agree that fraud is bad and that fraud is fraud.

And I wish the best for our country and I think that’s what needs to be happening is to crack down on all forms of fraud. So thank you. And it’s so crazy to see that CNN and MSNBC or MS Now did a hit piece on him. Instead of them actually getting their journalists out there to investigate themselves and to find out who he talked to and to work with him, they decided to send a hit piece to him overnight to try to dispel any kind of thing that he would come up with that would allow for us to actually be able to build some walls and the people over in Minneapolis and the Somalis that were committing fraud accountable for having me and God bless the USA.

Thank you, Mr. Shirley. And now I recognize Ms. Larson for your five minute opening statement. Chairman, ranking member. It’s crazy. What’s the point of testifying? That’s what I’m trying to understand. I talked too much. Anyone else? So I’ll give you, Mr. Shirley, Mr. Larson, a chance to say anything if you want. If not, I’ll yield 28 seconds to my pattern. But in the end, you got to ask why. Why was when you point out what’s going on, you have good people doing good work, you suffer, the taxpayers are getting ripped off. Someone’s got to ask, well, why did they take the not follow your recommendations, call your racist, investigate you instead of just fixing the problem? Why did they do that? What could be the answer? Anyone want to hazard it? Mr.

Shirley, you want to hazard a guess? Why that’s the case? Well, they simply use that as a deflection technique to make you not want to speak out against the fraud. Yeah, it seems to me it’s politics, though. You think it’s politics, Mr. Dexter? And out of all the thousands of messages I get on Instagram and other platforms, I just happened to read his and he provided me the information. So I gave him a phone call. And then from there just went to those different facilities. What was probably the most interesting thing as you were doing this? I think I saw the video.

We watched it and it looked like it was a number of facilities like in the same building. Yes. So in one day, I believe three daycares and there was no children and they were all receiving CCAP funding for separate daycares. There’s one day care we went to that one day it was closed by the government and then that same day was reopened underneath another name. They both received CCAP funding. I bet, Ms. Larson, they probably weren’t getting audited nearly like you were. I would guess not. So how many daycares are there in Minneapolis? Do we think fraud’s on my right now, Mr.

Shirley? Any idea? Are there amount of money total? You got any idea on that? Well, they’ve frozen over $185 million and now single business has been able to prove that they’re a legitimate business yet. It’s $185 million for sure that we know. Mr. Dexter, I got a question for you. What common patterns or warning signs usually indicate that the provider or the program may be committing fraud? As you were doing your investigations and 28 years of experience, what are some of the indicators that you see that maybe that should be a telltale sign or a red flag that there’s fraud there? Well, one of the things that I would mention is where that was located.

A lot of times they were located in commercial areas and I’m not talking like strip malls or anything like that. I’m talking about like industrial areas where you wouldn’t typically find a child care center. We would notice that there was no play area and if there was any play equipment, it was bare minimum. Now there was an exception that if there was a playground area within a very short walking distance, that would count. But a lot of times we didn’t see that. But the most glaring thing was that when we watched the centers, you know, we would do, we would sit and watch it for a couple of days before we even put up surveillance cameras, we would watch and we would see little to no children present.

If anything, there would be a few kids. As you begin to blow the whistle, the the investigator became this time has expired. I’ll yield back, Mr Chairman. Thank you. Chair recognizes the ranking member has been got. Thank you, Chair. When he began a second term, President Trump broke from historic norms and fired 17 inspectors, General people who serve as critical watchdogs and prevent waste, fraud and abuse. A federal judge held that these firings were illegal, but also held that she could not reinstate these people due to their able to appoint acting inspectors general who have themselves been removed after informing Congress that Trump officials are not cooperating with investigations.

Mr Hitler got that. How do these frequent firings affect the ability of the inspector general offices to prevent and investigate fraud? Well, of course, we know that Miss Macbeth is going to be on the side of the frosters. I can tell you that just by looking at her that she was gonna be on a certain side. But the worst thing about this is, is that regardless of how much funding and how much it takes and all of this stuff, it only took a YouTuber one day to fly out to Minneapolis, Minnesota and to do an investigation and do an investigation.

And so when all of this is said and done, how difficult is it to figure out whether or not somebody has a legitimate business that you’re giving over $2 million a year to? How difficult is that to do? I think they fundamentally undermine it. And they also create a real chilling effect for the inspector general who are left. The incentive to do something that could upset the powers that be suddenly becomes a bit of a risky proposition. And so between the completely undermining them and the chilling effect, you are really dampening and damaging the ability to do real oversight.

Thank you. And how does the politicization of inspector general appointments affect the morale and effectiveness of career investigative staff there within these offices? It also has a severely negative effect on morale and efficacy within the offices. So I believe we can and should do more to prevent fraud and improve oversight so that all of our government efforts are doing the most that they can to help the American people. The judiciary committee marked up the Republicans partisan big ugly spending bill. I offered an amendment that would dedicate. Well, now y’all know exactly it like if it wasn’t clear before, you know exactly what side of the aisle she’s on now.

Eight half of one person. What does how she feels about Trump? Because they can never just even have a conversation and be objective about what’s going on. What does how she feels about Trump have to do with whether or not people are actually committing fraud in Minneapolis? How was that even the same? Why is this an issue with Republicans versus Democrats? Why is this a we got to protect taxpayer money and taxpayer fraud or protect taxpayers from fraud in Minneapolis? Why is this a thing percent of funding to be used for oversight and fraud improvement and prevention? My Republican colleagues, they opposed the amendment.

Mr. Hitler, Godette, in your opening statement, you spoke on steps that Congress could take to ensure robust nonpartisan oversight. The project on government oversight recently published an article seven ways Congress should sharpen its oversight in 2026. Without objection. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anything else that you want to highlight from those recommendations? Sure. Yeah, I just want to pause to note that Congress really is the indispensable actor when it comes to doing oversight. There’s supposed to be a somewhat adversarial relationship between the branches and Congress is supposed to be the primary adversary when it comes to the other two branches and conducting oversight.

But that is predicated on Congress taking that oversight duty seriously, irrespective of who is in charge of the other two branches. And so I think there’s a political will issue there with oversight, but also there are some mechanical issues. So Congress could do a better job of holding hearing that are a bit more bipartisan, a bit more focused on the facts, as opposed to the sizzle of a given anecdote or scandal. I mean, really trying to get at root causes and really trying to take hard deep looks at the underlying structural reasons why things like fraud happen.

It’s not as sexy. It’s going to actually ideally lead to long term, sustainable, durable reforms that can really crack down on the problem. Thank you. And so I don’t think that we’ll ever crack down on the problem. I think that the problem is so widespread across the United States of America that this is not even something that we don’t really be paying attention to next year. I think the biggest problem for the Somalis, as far as how they feel is that they tired of white people bringing visibility over to Minneapolis by doing all of the protests and then they want them to go home so that they can get back to getting to the money.

But I definitely, definitely think that this is happening all across the United States of America without bias. People are running up a bag and they’re taking advantage of the system and it’s not going to translate into any taxpayers receiving any money back or them stopping the fraud. They’re just going to text you more and they’re going to say, hey, why aren’t you paying your fair share? Shout out to Nick Shirley for his testimony. This is also a marketing opportunity. Make sure you guys tap into the Patreon. Link is in the description.

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