LILLEY: Nick Shirley shines light on Minnesota fraud — but the allegations go back years |
Spotlight on Minnesota fraud exposes years of ignored warnings and social-program abuse the Democrats turned a blind eye to.
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Should anyone be shocked at the allegations coming out of Minnesota about widespread fraud in health and social services payments? Not really, the allegations go back years, and in some instances, there have been convictions for fraud-related to daycare centres, school food programs and more.
Nick Shirley — the MAGA online influencer and YouTuber, with more than 1 million subscribers — got people talking about this over Christmas with a viral video showing what appears to be fraud.
He visited daycare centres that receive millions in government funding for children from low-income families and yet there were no children present. While Shirley got conversation going online, the story stretches back years.
There were reports in 2017 and 2018, charges against daycare operators and nutrition program providers and even claims that money was ending up in the hands of a Somali terror group.
Past investigations uncovered overseas money transfers and daycare scams
Fox 9, a local television station in Minneapolis not only reported on daycare fraud back in 2018, they reported that the money was leaving the country en masse.
“Sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell the Fox 9 investigators more than $100 million flew out of MSP (Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport) last year, with things on pace to exceed that number this year. Much of the cash is headed to places like Kenya and Somalia,” Fox 9 reported.
The report went on to claim that part of the money was ending up in the hands of the al-Shabab terrorist group in Somali. The article even included comment from a member of the local Somali community who said he wanted to stop the flow of fraudulent money going to shady daycare operators and being shipped........