How is it possible that a young man with a video camera has done more to expose exorbitant fraud and corruption in one American state than all the giant billion-dollar legacy media combined?

For days after a 42-minute viral video by independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed widespread fraud in Minnesota, where empty childcare centers and healthcare offices reportedly received millions in taxpayer money, the mainstream media remained silent on the issue. That’s very strange, given that it may be the largest fraud scandal in US history.

Shirley, posing as a father looking to enroll his child in Somali-owned daycare facilities at various locations, including one with the misspelled name “Quality Learing Center,” was shocked at what he would find, or rather did not find. Instead of encountering rooms of playing children and welcoming staff, he was greeted with slammed doors and hostile threats by the few people he found on the premises. At the multiple sites visited, he failed to spot a single child. Thus, in just one day, Shirley blew the lid on a massive childcare and healthcare fraud case. Yet his shocking findings have done nothing to make the establishment sit up and take notice.

The fact that the mainstream media went missing in action with this story seems impossible, considering that the total amount of fraud we are talking about – reportedly about $9 billion – is comparable to........

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