David Hoch
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And you've got the great videographers, these young videographers going around and being totally heroic and going to these places because it's dangerous.
Some of the videos I think a lot of people haven't even seen is how dangerous it is for you guys to confront this.
But I want to go back to the main thing is not so much the videos.
The main thing that's made it accessible to the public.
The main thing is actually the work.
Explain for people for a second.
How long have you been at this and why have you been at this?
This is not your day job, but what got you interested in doing it, and how long have you been doing this research into this vast fraud that's so much deeper and broader than just the daycare centers?
What initiated you into this, and why have you been doing it for so long?
Well, Steve, I was born in Minneapolis.
I graduated from Annunciation Grade School, which had that terrible shooting last July.
I graduated from Washburn High School in Minneapolis.
I graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
And my office is in Minneapolis and I'm sort of on the outer edge of this, what we call Little Mogadishu.
And I started to see all these childcare centers.
And I go, geez, I mean, we got more childcare centers than we do children in Minneapolis.
What is going on here?
And so I started to look into who owns these childcare centers.
And every single one of them was Somali.
And I would see all these transportation vans going around.