Valuetainment
"Largest Fraud In The WORLD!" - Inside Nick Shirley's BILLION DOLLAR Minneapolis’ Daycare Fraud Bust
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What role does social media play in exposing fraud?
Here's the power of what social media does today. 23 years old, you go and find out for yourself. You're not waiting on ABC, CNN, CBS, any of these guys. You go ask questions. After asking questions yesterday, I believe it is, was it HHS, Rob, that came out yesterday? If I'm not mistaken, they came out yesterday.
And they stopped $185 million of funding to Minneapolis because of the video you posted. So watch this, folks. This is a byproduct of what Nick Shirley did on December 26. Go ahead, Rob. Hello. I'm HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill.
Chapter 2: How did Nick Shirley uncover daycare fraud in Minnesota?
I'm here with Assistant Secretary Alex Adams. Alex oversees the Administration for Children and Families. Intrepid journalists have made shocking and credible allegations of extensive fraud in Minnesota's child care programs. We believe the state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake daycares to siphon millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade.
My office, ACF, provides Minnesota $185 million in child care funds each year. That money should be helping 19,000 American children, including toddlers and infants. Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children. Yesterday, I spoke directly with the director of the Minnesota Child Care Services Office.
She could not tell me with confidence whether those allegations of fraud are isolated or whether there's fraud stretching statewide. Today, we have taken three direct actions against the blatant fraud that seems to be rampant in Minnesota. First, I have activated our Defend the Spend system for all ACF child care payments across America.
Starting today, we require a justification receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment. You can stop it right there. So the idea is $185 million stop because you independently went out there and created this content, exposed it to everybody, and then allegedly, was it today that CNN came after you or was it yesterday? Yeah, today they put a hit piece out on me.
And when did they interview? When did CNN come and interview? Yesterday. Yesterday they did. Yesterday I showed up at Quality Learing Center. Is this the one? Yes. So this is you. You show up. You're in Minnesota yesterday. Yes. At the Quality Learing Center. We got to say it correctly. By the way, his sweater he's got on. If you guys want to... purchase the sweater.
We're going to put the link below as well to the Quality Learing Center. It's becoming a hot commodity. Rob, let's make sure you put the link below as well to support what he's doing here. But here's CNN. It doesn't look like they're happy for you doing their work. When they first came up to you, were they friendly? Were they nice to you? What was the approach that they took?
Yeah, the lady came up to me very friendly, and then she kept asking me these questions. I'm like, ma'am, you're defending fraud. What are you talking about? The issue wasn't what time I showed up to the daycare. The issue is that this building right here is receiving $1.9 million, and it's not even operating.
And they're showing face right now while they're literally shuffling in kids while the commissioner of children is saying the daycare was closed last week. That's pretty wild. Okay, so play this clip, Rob. Go ahead. This is MAGA YouTuber, Nick Shirley. Back at a daycare in Minnesota, he alleged was a fraudulent facility in a now viral video. You are going to say this is a left or right issue?
No, fraud is fraud. I'm not out here trying to put a twist on things. Shirley's viral video released over the weekend in which he says he's uncovering tens of millions of dollars in fraud at Minneapolis daycares run by the Somali community was retweeted by Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance. In the video, Shirley tries to open locked doors
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Chapter 3: What actions did federal authorities take against the fraud?
Do you think that federal law enforcement hasn't done enough? I mean, they would say, look, these fraud cases have been going on. But they've already done like 80 indictments. The cases have been going on. So funny. They're defending Trump now. I show up one day in Minnesota and go to all these daycares, no children. They're receiving millions of dollars.
We encourage nearly $110 million in fraud in one day. How do you know that all the allegations that you're making are true? How do I know that they're true? Well, we showed you guys what was happening, and then you guys can go ahead and make your own analysis. So we can make our own analysis. Are you 100% sure you're true? Yeah, I am 100% sure I'm true. CNN is looking into Shirley's claims.
Hi, my name's Whitney Wild. I'm a correspondent for CNN. We reached out to several of the daycares featured in the now-viral video. Only one daycare facility answered and said they are a legitimate business. She's validating your points. Have you seen that the videos, you know, purporting that some of these daycares don't have kids inside?
Minnesota Republicans say despite the new focus from the Trump administration, they have been sounding the alarm on fraud for years. You know, we have talked about fraud. We have gotten stories. We have we've tried to push this forward every way that we can. So this is yesterday in Minnesota. Yeah, yesterday in Minnesota. Wow.
And you went back to Minnesota because you just told me that you're working on a part two yourself. Yeah, because there's a lot more fraud. How much more did you find? Oh, we found a lot more businesses that don't exist. There's millions of dollars. We found daycares with more million-dollar daycares.
I mean, there's literally hundreds of daycares receiving millions of dollars in Minnesota at this moment as we speak. So from the first one, you guys were over $100 million of fraud that you found, right? With the second one, now the recent one that you were there yesterday, how much more did you guys find yesterday?
I have to do all the numbers, which I'll do when I do all my editing, but at least another $10 million. Another $10 million. Okay, so on the other side, while you're doing this, what caused you, and we see this man named David, right? We keep seeing this man named David.
who I think yesterday, he said, if you want to put $100,000 for anybody that can prove any of this wrong, because this is a government document, how did you and David, Rob, is this the clip where he says that? Yeah. Do you want to play this clip of David? No, don't call any parents. Anybody who wants to pick me up, I'll give you $100,000. $100,000? I can just prove my information.
So give me a copy of what you have, and I can just prove my information. $100,000. $100,000. $100,000. $100,000. I'm going page by page. Come on, girl. Just keep your video on. And just screenshot it while you're going. Let me know when you got it. All those people out there defending the fraud, and then he gives them the option. They're defending the fraud. Yes. They're not on your side. No.
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Chapter 4: What evidence supports the allegations of fraud in daycare facilities?
There was like a couch and a table with a couple chairs, and I said, well, are the kids out back playing? Or what kind of place is this? And the guy said, you go, you go. And he almost pushed me out the door. And then he followed me down the street to my car. And that's when I said, wait a minute. There's something going on here. And that's got to be maybe five years ago.
This fraud is so massive. When the dust settles on this, it's going to be found to be the largest fraud in the history of the country and probably the world. It's that big. You can pause it right there. Is that true that genetics is, that's genetics right there? Is that mom? Yes, my mom. Good for you. You got great genes. You know, she's very comfortable doing this as well. Very cool.
So the largest fraud in the world, in America, on what he's talking about. I hope we get to the bottom of this. So you and David get linked up, and then you just said, why don't we just go interview? That's kind of how it started. Yeah, I thought when we go, we'll walk to these daycares, we'll talk to them. But the first daycare we go to, all the windows are blacked out.
And I tried to open the door and nobody answered. I ring the doorbell, nobody answered. And that daycare, they had two daycares running out of that same building. And they had both had two different contracts of more than a million dollars for these daycares. And I was very shocked to see that. The response from the public after that was, oh, why is he going and knocking on these doors?
Because millions of dollars are going there. We have a responsibility to know where our dollars are going. But it just went to show that the fraud is insane. And then the people are saying, well, that daycare is closed. Well, how come there's a sign that says it's open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.? Is that what it says? Yeah. So the one that the CNN reporter claimed...
that you came after business hours. You said you came at 11 to 5 o'clock. They have a sign that says they're open Monday through Sunday. That one right there, the first part in the video. Open seven days a week. Zoom in a little bit, Rob. I can't because it's a video, but it says open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. It says that right on the sign. Right there. Got it. This is the Mako.
What is it called? Mako Child Care Center. Yeah. Is that another misspelled Mako or is that really the name? I don't know. But what's funny about that is there's actually two child care companies inside that same building, but they're not showing the second one. And so they have two child care businesses operating that same within the same place. Yes. And how much money are they getting?
This one together over the past few years, they have it right there. But combined, they received over $5 million. Stop it. Just that one building alone. And so what is the business model? Somebody just stays there all day, no kids, and they just take the cash? Yeah, that's why all the windows are all boarded up, or why they're all blacked out. Now, let me ask you, Nick.
There was a video from 2019. Is it 2019, 2020? You know the video where parents would come, drop off the kids, and then take the kids out a minute later, not even drop them off. Come in, register, then they leave. You know which video I'm talking about, Rob? Yeah. And allegedly they were getting paid. That's the one right there. What year is that video from? It says 2015, March 31st of 2015.
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Chapter 5: How much money has been lost to daycare fraud in Minnesota?
He's handing the cash. Where was the money going? I don't know exactly where it went. Order for the scheme to work, the daycare center... You've got to be kidding me. So I'll come in, I register my kids, you're able to write them off to make money off. You send that to the Minnesota government, hey, I have this many kids. Then they get paid, then they come and give a kickback to the parents. Yes.
So the problem with this is these parents are no longer going to get payments. and someone's going to call somebody out. And this has been happening for over a decade. It's not like this is a new thing that's happening. How many whistleblowers have been emailing you, DMing you, texting you, getting a hold of you? How many more whistleblowers have gotten a hold of you and David?
Yes, so many people have been reaching out. It's been almost overwhelming to go through all the messages. But the people of Minnesota are so fed up with this fraud because now finally somebody is actually getting it out to the national level because local journalists have been talking about it for years. but they've never been able to get it out to a national level like I was able to do.
And so just the millions of dollars, and if you talk about why they're just giving them cash, it's because the money they receive is tax-exempt, CCAP funding, and then these women that are working inside these daycares, they're not actually...
My assumption is that they're not actually on payroll, and that's why 81% of the Somali population is on welfare inside the state of Minnesota, is because they don't actually receive a W-2 or 1099, whatever it would be, to claim that they're actually receiving an income.
Because if you're running a daycare of a million dollars, you should be able to pay your person a salary of at least $50,000, you know what I mean? But none of that is documented. No, not that I know of, because it doesn't make sense why there's so many people on welfare if they're making millions of dollars. I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on Manect.
Go ahead and ask me any questions, whether it be about politics, about what I believe, or where I think the future of the country will be going, or just, quite frankly, anything. You can ask me here on Manect. I really appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to answer your questions.
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