May 22, 2026 · 592K views · 📍 Minneapolis, MN
Nick Shirley returns to Minnesota with collaborator David on the day federal prosecutors announce criminal charges against 15 defendants for schemes targeting over $90 million across seven state-managed Medicaid programs and a child care funding program, including what officials call the largest autism fraud bust in American history. A daycare operator featured in Nick's earlier viral video is among those charged, and the Feeding Our Future ringleader is sentenced to 41 years the same morning. Nick confronts CNN at the press conference and interviews CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and assistant attorney general Collin McDonald about how the fraud happened and enforcement plans.
Programs involved: Medicaid, Medicare, Integrated Community Supports, Housing Stabilization Services, Feeding Our Future, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), child care funding program (Minnesota, not named specifically), White House anti-fraud task force
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Dr. Oz references roughly $100 billion of fraud CMS believes exists nationally (not limited to Medicare).
“not the whole hundred billion dollars of fraud we think exists”
Stated by Dr. Mehmet Oz (CMS Administrator)
David (Nick's collaborator) predicts total Minnesota fraud going back to about 1988 will ultimately amount to $80 billion.
“this fraud in Minnesota is going to be 80 billion dollars going back to about 1988”
Stated by David (interviewee, citizen investigator)
Dr. Oz says problems in California forced CMS to defer $1.34 billion, and that this was just for the quarter.
“forced us to defer $1.34 billion... That's just for the quarter”
Stated by Dr. Mehmet Oz (CMS Administrator)
Dr. Oz says autism billing (in Minnesota) grew from a few million to $400 million, which flagged the program as suspicious.
“it's gone from a few million to 400 million dollars which literally happened”
Stated by Dr. Mehmet Oz (CMS Administrator)
Dr. Oz says CMS deferred $350 million in submitted claims/payments for Minnesota.
“in this state in Minnesota, defer $350 million”
Stated by Dr. Mehmet Oz (CMS Administrator)
Official announces criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota for fraud schemes targeting over $90 million across seven state-managed Medicaid programs (plus a child care funding program).
“criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota for fraud schemes that targeted over 90 million”
Stated by Unnamed prosecutor/official at the press conference
Nick states the day's Minnesota charges include over $40 million in autism-services fraud.
“Over $40 million in autism fraud.”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Nick says the woman from his earlier daycare video, now criminally charged with childcare fraud, was 'caught with' over $4 million.
“she has been caught with over $4 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Nick states the charged woman's daycare received $3.67 million last year; at 04:41 he restates it as $3.6 million and names the facility Future Learning Center (do not count separately).
“last year her daycare received $3.67 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
A defendant in the Integrated Community Supports case allegedly billed Medicaid over $400 for services never provided, submitted the day before the patient (who received no services) died.
“submitted a claim of over $400 for services he never provided the day before this man died”
Stated by Unnamed prosecutor/official at the press conference
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: High-fidelity extraction: all 12 dollar amounts and quotes match the transcript verbatim, with correct speakers, timestamps, and scope/status classifications, and no fabricated figures. The extractor handled ASR noise well — it flagged the 'AG Collins'/'Attorney McDonald' garbling, the '50 people charged' vs 15-defendant contradiction, and the choppy Future Learning Center sentence rather than silently smoothing them. The only soft spots are external-knowledge normalizations (CMS never named verbatim, titles for Walz/Ellison, 'Mehmet', 'Jr.'), all of which are consistent with transcript context, and claim 4's parenthetical merging McDonald's 15:00 'child care funding program' remark into the 03:00 announcement.
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.