Nick Shirley took a well-earned victory lap this week. After Shirley’s viral exposé laid bare a sprawling fraud operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota Democrat Tim Walz abruptly announced he would abandon his bid for a third term. The timing was no coincidence. Once the YouTuber’s reporting pierced the media bubble and put corruption front and center, the pressure became impossible to ignore—and Walz folded.
The investigation zeroed in on Somali-run daycares that raked in millions in taxpayer funding despite having no children on-site. The fallout was swift and severe: 2,000 federal agents were deployed to probe the fraud, Health and Human Services shut off all child care payments pending the outcome, and the U.S. Department of Labor launched a review of unemployment benefits. The scandal may ultimately mark the end of Tim Walz’s political career:
Walz bolted at the first sign of real scrutiny. His state agencies are chin-deep in the mess, and he knows full well he could be next.
In his follow-up video, Shirley is joined by David Hoch, a co-founder of Minnesotans for Responsible Government—a group the liberal press will no doubt rush to discredit. Hoch lays out just how massive this fraud scheme could be, warning it may ultimately balloon into the hundreds of billions. Conservatively, he pegs the damage at no less than $80 billion, describing a web of shell companies stacked layer upon layer.
Enjoying our conservative reporting and commentary? Make sure to tell your friends about us!
Hoch also appeared alongside Shirley in the original exposé and raised another red flag: Minneapolis reportedly has around 1,200 medical transport companies that appear to do virtually nothing. The vehicles sit idle in parking lots, yet taxpayers are still footing the bill for “patient transport” that never happens:
“I have been to many of these transportation companies, and I’ve been time-stamping my photographs for a whole year at one facility in Minneapolis, and those vans in that parking lot had not moved one inch in an entire year. They’re all still sitting there,” he said.
Hoch later broke down the considerable political influence the Somali community holds in the city, making it easier to see how an operation of this scale was able to run for years with little to no oversight—or consequences:
And now, there are more federal authorities and resources headed to the state, per Fox News’ Bill Melugin:
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox:
The Department of Justice is dispatching a team of prosecutors to Minnesota to reinforce our U.S. Attorney’s Office and put the perpetrators of this widespread fraud behind bars. We will deliver severe consequences in Minnesota and stand ready to deploy to any other state where similar fraud schemes are robbing American taxpayers.
