Jul 16, 2026 · 405K views · 📍 Washington, D.C.
Nick Shirley recaps his testimony before a US Senate hearing on government-program fraud, noting that Democratic senators did not attend. He summarizes his prior investigations into daycare, autism, hospice, Medicaid, and adult daycare fraud in Minnesota, California, and New York, and Republican senators question him about how he uncovered the fraud.
Programs involved: Medi-Cal, Medicaid, Medicare
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
US national debt cited as context
“We have $40 trillion in debt”
Stated by Senator Moreno · verifier note: Amount and quote ('We have $40 trillion in debt') are correct, but the speaker is not named 'Senator Moreno' anywhere in the transcript; it is an unidentified senator.
Annual fraud losses to the federal government cited by senator
“Washington is losing up to $521 billion to fraud every year”
Stated by Senator
Proposed California Medi-Cal budget cited as context for fraud
“to a proposed $222 billion while enrollment has only rose by less than 1%”
Stated by Nick Shirley
California Medi-Cal budget in 2022 cited as baseline
“more than doubled from $108 billion in 2022 to a proposed $222 billion”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Combined yearly budget of Inspector General offices
“offices of Inspector General have a combined yearly budget of nearly $4 billion”
Stated by Senator
Alleged fraud through NYC government-funded adult daycares
“Over $2 billion has gone to these fraudsters at the taxpayers' expense”
Stated by Nick Shirley
GAO annual budget cited as context
“GAO has an annual budget of more than $800 million”
Stated by Senator
Cash allegedly flown out of Minneapolis Airport to Somalia
“$700 million in cash flowing out of Minneapolis Airport back to... countries in Africa”
Stated by Senator
Fraud in Minnesota allegedly overlooked by AG Keith Ellison
“after overlooking $250 million in fraud”
Stated by Senator
Government funding received by immigrant-services NGO CHIRLA
“an NGO like Chirla that receives that's received over $80 million from the government”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Payments to a single NYC adult daycare with 7,899 enrolled patients
“7,899 patients enrolled into a day care... and they received $12.9 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Funds a learning center received while allegedly committing fraud
“they open up a learning center, and they receive $1.9 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Campaign contributions Keith Ellison allegedly took from fraudsters
“he took $10,000 in campaign contributions from the very people who were committing the fraud”
Stated by Senator
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: Financial claims were accurately extracted and correctly quoted against the transcript. The main weaknesses are speaker attributions: two named senators (Lankford, Moreno) do not appear in the transcript at all, and the $40 trillion debt claim is wrongly attributed to a named senator when the transcript only shows an unidentified speaker.
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.