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We Exposed Tim Walz Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme | Sit Down Interview

Jan 5, 2026 · 1.3M views · 📍 Minneapolis, MN · Cedar-Riverside / West Bank, Minneapolis, MN

Nick Shirley sits down in Minneapolis, near the Cedar-Riverside complex, with a local resident (identified only as "David" in the video description) who says he has spent years compiling records on alleged fraud in Minnesota assistance programs. David alleges that Somali-run daycares, autism centers, adult daycares, home health care, non-emergency medical transportation, and interpreter-service businesses collect state and federal payments while serving no clients, citing CCAP payment figures for specific daycares and estimating total Minnesota fraud at $80-100 billion or more, versus a U.S. Attorney figure of possibly $18 billion. The interview also contains extensive claims about the Somali community, including alleged ballot harvesting, cash smuggling through the Minneapolis airport, and money allegedly reaching al-Shabaab.

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Programs involved: Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), SNAP, EBT, Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT), Minnesota DEED grants, Parent Aware, Feeding Our Future, Metro Mobility

Dollar figures (20)

Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer

$80Ballegedstate total

Interviewee's personal estimate of total fraudulent money in Minnesota over the years: $80-100 billion (lower bound recorded); he later says it 'could be two hundred billion' [39:03] and repeats 'a hundred billion' several times.

“Over the years I would say anywhere from 80 to 100 billion dollars.”

Stated by David (interviewee)

$18Bofficial estimatestate total

U.S. Attorney press-conference estimate that Minnesota fraud is possibly as much as $18 billion, relayed by interviewee.

“said the fraud is possibly as much as 18 billion dollars”

Stated by David (interviewee), citing a U.S. Attorney press conference

$1.0Bofficial estimatestate total

Intermediate official estimate of Minnesota fraud ($1 billion), later superseded by the $18 billion figure; relayed by interviewee.

“Then they said it's a billion.”

Stated by David (interviewee), citing the U.S. Attorney

Other claims (3)

allegedPrediction that non-emergency medical transportation fraud will total billions of dollars once data on the 900+ companies is compiled; no precise figure stated.
allegedClaim that millions of dollars in cash were funneled weekly through the Minneapolis airport / TSA, attributed to a former airport police department worker; no specific total stated.
allegedInterpreter-services fraud alleged to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on its own, with interpreters billed at $100/hour, minimum eight hours; no precise total stated.

Entities named (30)

Aurora Child Care

business · accused fraudulent daycare claiming 106 kids; interviewee saw zero children in five visits

Banaadir Academy

nonprofit · K-12 charter school accused of inflated enrollment (claims 150 students, data shows 136) while receiving ~$20-30M/year per interviewee

Creative Minds Daycare

business · daycare shut down by the state for violations, allegedly reopened the next day under a new license; address given as 3801 Portland Avenue

David (interviewee; surname not given)

person · interviewee; Minneapolis resident who conducted his own multi-year fraud investigation; name appears only in the video description

Diamond Daycare

business · accused fraudulent daycare with claimed 97-child capacity in a tiny building

Early Learning Center ('Early Leering Center' sign)

business · daycare with misspelled sign; neighboring restaurant and nail salon workers say they never saw children there

Feeding Our Future

nonprofit · food-program nonprofit at the center of the federal fraud case; cited as the starting point ($250M) of official fraud estimates

Ilhan Omar

person · U.S. Representative accused by interviewee of drawing Somalis to Minnesota; called 'godmother of the Somalis'

All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: Exceptionally faithful extraction: all 23 claims verified against the transcript with exact amounts, quotes, timestamps, and correct speaker attribution (Nick vs. interviewee vs. relayed sources), and the extractor proactively flagged double-counting risks ($11M = $8M + $2.45M; Chicago Avenue = Minnesota Child Care) and ASR issues ('Deke Brown' -> Tikki Brown, 'among' -> Hmong, DEEDS -> DEED). Zero hallucinations found. Minor unverifiables, all disclosed by the extractor: the interviewee's name 'David' comes from the video description rather than the transcript, and the 3801 Portland Avenue address is attributed to Creative Minds via a slightly ambiguous recap passage.

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We Exposed Tim Walz Billion Dollar Fraud Scheme | Sit Down Interview

Jan 5, 2026 · 1.3M views · 📍 Minneapolis, MN · Cedar-Riverside / West Bank, Minneapolis, MN

Dollar figures (20)

Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer

$80Ballegedstate total

“Over the years I would say anywhere from 80 to 100 billion dollars.”

Stated by David (interviewee)

$18Bofficial estimatestate total

U.S. Attorney press-conference estimate that Minnesota fraud is possibly as much as $18 billion, relayed by interviewee.

“said the fraud is possibly as much as 18 billion dollars”

Stated by David (interviewee), citing a U.S. Attorney press conference

$1.0Bofficial estimatestate total

Intermediate official estimate of Minnesota fraud ($1 billion), later superseded by the $18 billion figure; relayed by interviewee.

“Then they said it's a billion.”

Stated by David (interviewee), citing the U.S. Attorney

Other claims (3)

allegedPrediction that non-emergency medical transportation fraud will total billions of dollars once data on the 900+ companies is compiled; no precise figure stated.

allegedClaim that millions of dollars in cash were funneled weekly through the Minneapolis airport / TSA, attributed to a former airport police department worker; no specific total stated.

allegedInterpreter-services fraud alleged to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on its own, with interpreters billed at $100/hour, minimum eight hours; no precise total stated.

Entities named (30)

Aurora Child Care

business · accused fraudulent daycare claiming 106 kids; interviewee saw zero children in five visits

Banaadir Academy

nonprofit · K-12 charter school accused of inflated enrollment (claims 150 students, data shows 136) while receiving ~$20-30M/year per interviewee

Creative Minds Daycare

business · daycare shut down by the state for violations, allegedly reopened the next day under a new license; address given as 3801 Portland Avenue

David (interviewee; surname not given)

person · interviewee; Minneapolis resident who conducted his own multi-year fraud investigation; name appears only in the video description

Diamond Daycare

business · accused fraudulent daycare with claimed 97-child capacity in a tiny building

Early Learning Center ('Early Leering Center' sign)

business · daycare with misspelled sign; neighboring restaurant and nail salon workers say they never saw children there

Feeding Our Future

nonprofit · food-program nonprofit at the center of the federal fraud case; cited as the starting point ($250M) of official fraud estimates

Ilhan Omar

person · U.S. Representative accused by interviewee of drawing Somalis to Minnesota; called 'godmother of the Somalis'