Nick Shirley is a one man wrecking crew.   

Journalist Nick Shirley uncovered more than $170 million in alleged day-care and hospice fraud in California, surpassing the scandal he previously exposed in Minnesota.
https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2033708929398845886?s=46

Somali immigrant Abdulkarim Farah tried to bribe a juror in the massive $250 million "Feeding Our Future" COVID fraud scheme in Minnesota.

He has now been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Think about that for a moment.

A quarter-billion dollars in pandemic relief meant to help feed children and struggling families was stolen... and someone was actually bold enough to try to buy off a juror during the trial.

The deeper investigators dig into this case, the worse it gets.

Its like these libtard run states are trying to outdo each other in the welfare fraud category.

Somali fraudsters apparently have some competition from other migrant communities.

A pair of Venezuelan nationals were charged along with two other migrants this week for allegedly stealing and using the identities of over 100 individuals to obtain millions of dollars in federal welfare.

The Venezuelans, both of whom previously enjoyed Temporary Protected Status — Roman Vequiz Fernandez, 32, and Coralba Albarracin Siniva, 24 — and Joel Vicioso Fernandez, a 42-year-old Dominican national and permanent resident of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to use, transfer, acquire, and possess Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Joel Fernandez's brother, Raul Fernandez Vicioso — a 37-year-old Dominican national and naturalized U.S. citizen who also lives in Fitchburg — was charged with conspiracy to commit SNAP fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, SNAP benefit fraud, aiding and abetting, and money laundering.

  
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eynm-3Tqjsw

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a warning to Davos to what Newsom can expect.

"I think it's very, very ironic that Governor Newsom — who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken — may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris," said Bessent.

"He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros. And Davos is the perfect place for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having thousand-dollar-a-night meals at the French Laundry [restaurant]," he added.

"My message to Governor Newsom," Bessent said, "is the Trump administration is coming to California, we are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse."

He went on to list California's problems, including homelessness, the mass exodus of residents, a massive budget deficit, and continued fallout from the devastating Palisades fire a year ago.

"Shame on him. He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything," he concluded.

Quote from: Brent on January 21, 2026, 12:14:52 PMI am sure other Democrat run states have similar fraud scandals and on similar or bigger scale.

They absolutely do. And I have no doubt that governors Newsom and Pritzker are getting nervous.

Quote from: DKG on January 21, 2026, 07:41:14 AMNick Shirley joins Liz Wheeler to drop his explosive part 2 video, exposing the hidden 'hub' of Minnesota's massive fraud wheel allegedly draining $8 million a day from taxpayers.
Nick Shirley — the 23-year-old investigative journalist who exposed day-care fraud in Minnesota with a video that has now surpassed 140 million views — is back with part two.

"It's a whole other aspect to the fraud scheme," says BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler, who invited Shirley to "The Liz Wheeler Show" to share his latest discoveries.



In the first video, Shirley exposed numerous Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota as fraudulent operations. Despite receiving millions (or even billions overall) in taxpayer-funded government subsidies through programs like CCAP and Medicaid, these centers provided no actual child-care services. Footage captures Shirley visiting multiple empty facilities with locked doors, blacked-out windows, no visible children, and sketchy "staff members."

In part two, which dropped last week, Shirley shines a light on non-emergency medical transportation companies in Minnesota, which he alleges are fraudulently billing the state and Medicaid for millions of dollars in rides and services that never actually occurred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_50dbbks4s&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fshows%2Fthe-liz-wheeler-show%2Fminnesota-daycare-expose-journalist-strikes-again-and-part-2-names-the-hub-o&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ

I am sure other Democrat run states have similar fraud scandals and on similar or bigger scale.

 

Nick Shirley joins Liz Wheeler to drop his explosive part 2 video, exposing the hidden 'hub' of Minnesota's massive fraud wheel allegedly draining $8 million a day from taxpayers.
Nick Shirley — the 23-year-old investigative journalist who exposed day-care fraud in Minnesota with a video that has now surpassed 140 million views — is back with part two.

"It's a whole other aspect to the fraud scheme," says BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler, who invited Shirley to "The Liz Wheeler Show" to share his latest discoveries.



In the first video, Shirley exposed numerous Somali-run day-care centers in Minnesota as fraudulent operations. Despite receiving millions (or even billions overall) in taxpayer-funded government subsidies through programs like CCAP and Medicaid, these centers provided no actual child-care services. Footage captures Shirley visiting multiple empty facilities with locked doors, blacked-out windows, no visible children, and sketchy "staff members."

In part two, which dropped last week, Shirley shines a light on non-emergency medical transportation companies in Minnesota, which he alleges are fraudulently billing the state and Medicaid for millions of dollars in rides and services that never actually occurred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_50dbbks4s&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fshows%2Fthe-liz-wheeler-show%2Fminnesota-daycare-expose-journalist-strikes-again-and-part-2-names-the-hub-o&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ

Now it's Michigan's turn for federal fraud.

Minnesota is hardly the only state whose kindness to migrants from the third world has been abused. Michiganders, too, have apparently opened their arms to foreign-born fraudsters who are more than happy to steal from their host state's most vulnerable residents.

Nkechy Ezeh, a woke Nigerian who served as a professor at Aquinas College until 2023, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scheme that bled taxpayers for $1 million and forced an organization that funded early learning initiatives for poor kids to close.

Ezeh could face up to 20 years in prison for the fraud charge and another five years for tax evasion — a charge to which she also pleaded guilty on Wednesday.

In the years since she migrated to the U.S., Ezeh has complained about "structural racism" while being showered with awards and opportunities.

In 2018, for instance, the West Michigan Woman Brilliance Awards named her woman of the year. In 2020, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed Ezeh to the executive committee of Michigan's Early Childhood Investment Corporation. In 2021, Aquinas College honored the Nigerian fraudster with its Distinguished Service Award.

The acclaim and upward mobility evidently weren't enough for Ezeh, who decided to live a jet-set lifestyle at taxpayers' expense.

According to a 2023 whistleblower complaint, Ezeh used various interrelated organizations to funnel hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to herself as well as to friends and family members while serving as CEO of the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative.

The ELNC was a nonprofit in Grand Rapids that Ezeh — who claimed in a 2022 profile that "injustice makes me cry" — founded with the purported aim of providing state "funding, advocacy, and high-quality early childhood educational services to families, children, and neighborhoods that are more 'at-risk or vulnerable.'"

The complaint filed against Ezeh indicated that she funneled funds from the ELNC with the help of the nonprofit's bookkeeper, Sharon Killebrew, who secretly paid herself nearly $1 million between June 2017 and April 2023.

Court documents reviewed by WOOD-TV indicate that Ezeh not only created nearly $500,000 in fake invoices with Killebrew but created two fake day-care businesses to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to herself and others.

Ezeh reportedly used some of the stolen taxpayer money to pay for trips to Hawaii, Liberia, and Nigeria for herself and others.

ELNC sued Ezeh and Killebrew in September 2023, but by that time, the damage was done. ELNC had to close its doors on account of the financial impact of the duo's embezzlement and fraud, which meant the loss of both 35 jobs and a source of support for numerous Michigan families.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Clay Stiffler, the victims of the the fraud committed by Ezeh — who has been touted as a "champion for poor black and brown kids" — "were mostly children of color under the age of five years old, 72% of whom lived below the federal poverty level in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Kent County, Kalamazoo, and Battle Creek."

Killebrew initially insisted she was innocent, claiming she "didn't steal anything." However, when confronted with the mountain of evidence to the contrary, she pleaded guilty in June. Killebrew was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution.

Like her accomplice, Ezeh initially denied her guilt but has since admitted to embezzling over $1 million.

The Nigerian fraudster's attorney, Mary Chartier, told MLive/the Grand Rapids Press, "Ms. Ezeh is committed to taking full responsibility and accountability for her actions. She is deeply remorseful to anyone who has been negatively impacted."

Amy DeLeeuw, the president of the apparently defunct nonprofit, stated that she was "disappointed by Nkechy Ezeh's failure to meaningfully articulate the nature and scope of her criminal misconduct during her change of plea hearing today. Her theft of millions of dollars intended for the most vulnerable of children was brazen, all-encompassing, and unconscionable."