Dec 26, 2025 · 4.2M views · 📍 Minneapolis, MN · St. Paul, MN (State Capitol and 22-provider building) · George Floyd Square neighborhood, Minneapolis · 3801 Portland Ave, Minneapolis · 312 West Lake Street, Minneapolis
Nick Shirley teams up with a local investigator named David to visit Minneapolis-area daycare centers, an autism center, and buildings housing dozens of home healthcare companies, alleging they collect millions in state and federal CCAP and healthcare funds while serving no visible children or clients. Citing figures David attributes to state data, they tally roughly $100 million in alleged fraud across the visited sites and repeat estimates that statewide fraud totals around $8 billion. The video ends at the Minnesota State Capitol, where Shirley confronts legislators about oversight failures under Governor Tim Walz, and a Democratic representative pushes back that fraud is a bipartisan, nationwide problem.
Programs involved: CCAP (Child Care Assistance Program), Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT), Medicaid, Medicare
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Minnesota state budget swing: David says the last biennium had an $18 billion surplus and the current one a $6 billion deficit — a $24 billion swing — and alleges better than 90% of it is outright fraud. This is a budget figure, not a directly measured fraud amount.
“That's a $24 billion swing in one bienium”
Stated by David (interviewee)
David estimates total fraud in Minnesota at 7 to 10 billion dollars, saying publicly revised numbers now put it around 8 billion.
“You heard it's 7 to 10 billion and maybe more”
Stated by David (interviewee)
Running total: Nick says they are now at upwards of $100 million in alleged fraud found during the investigation. Cumulative narrative total — do not add to per-entity figures.
“And now with upwards of $100 million in fraud”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
David estimates at least $50-60 million per year is funneled through the building housing 14 Somali-owned home healthcare companies at one address in Minneapolis (lower bound of stated range used).
“Every year, I would say 50 to 60 million at least”
Stated by David (interviewee)
For the second building housing 22 home healthcare providers at one address, an estimate of around $30 million in fraud is given, described as 'a very low estimate'.
“I'm going to give an estimate of around $30 million for how much fraud is taking place”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Running subtotal: Nick says they had nearly approached $20 million in alleged fraud found within a few hours of visiting daycares. Cumulative narrative total across entities already listed — do not add to per-entity figures.
“Within just a few hours, we nearly approached $20 million in fraud”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Future Leaders Early Learning Center, licensed for 90 children, allegedly received $3.6 million in fiscal year 2025 and $3 million in fiscal year 2024, stated as $6.67 million over two years.
“in two years, they got $6.67 million claiming they have 90 children”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
An unnamed daycare center with no signage allegedly received $5.9 million in two years (an initial '$59 million' in the captions is immediately corrected to 5.9 million).
“5.9 million they received in 2 years. That facility right there.”
Stated by David (interviewee)
The building at 312 West Lake Street, housing three childcare centers (including Minnesota Child Care Center and Nuna) licensed for 102 children, was allegedly paid $2.66 million by the state in fiscal year 2025, plus $2.5 million stated for the prior year at 35:50 (sum of both stated figures).
“in fiscal year 2025 was paid 2.66 million by the state of Minnesota”
Stated by David (interviewee)
Quality Learning Center ('Learing' misspelled on its sign), licensed for 99 children, allegedly received about $4 million over the last two years in CCAP funding — $1.9 million this year and $1.5 million last year per figures stated at 18:23 (components sum to $3.4M vs the $4M round figure).
“$4 million in the last two years”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Mako Child Care allegedly received $1.3 million in 2020, $987,000 in 2021, and $714,000 in 2022 (sum of the three stated annual payments) despite no children ever being seen there.
“In 2020, one of them received 1.3 million. In 2021, they got 987,000.”
Stated by David (interviewee) · verifier note: Amounts, years, speaker (David), and timestamp all check out, but the transcript never assigns these payments to Mako specifically. David says 'In 2020, one of them received 1.3 million... That's the last I have for that one' about the Mako/Mini pair at the shared address without naming which center. Attributing the 2020-2022 figures to Mako rather than Mini is an inference from mention order, not something the transcript states.
Mako Child Care and Mini Child Care Center combined are allegedly pulling in about $3 million a year with no children present. Combined figure — overlaps with the per-year Mako and Mini claims above; do not add to them.
“between the two of these childc care centers, they're pulling in about $3 million a year”
Stated by David (interviewee)
ABC Learning Center allegedly generated nearly $3 million over the past 3 years, including $727,336 in fiscal year 2023, while licensed for 40 children with none ever seen (FY2025 and FY2024 figures are garbled in the captions and excluded).
“this one's also generated nearly $3 million in the past 3 years”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Creative Minds Daycare allegedly received $2.45 million in fiscal year 2025, was shut down over violations, and reopened the next day at the same address (3801 Portland) as Super Kids Daycare Center LLC.
“it had received $2.45 million this uh fiscal year 2025”
Stated by David (interviewee)
Mini Child Care Center (registered at the same address as Mako) allegedly received $1.604 million in fiscal year 2025 and about $800,000 in fiscal year 2024 (sum of the two clearly stated figures; the FY2023 figure is garbled in the captions and excluded).
“the other one, 1.604 million in fiscal year 2025”
Stated by David (interviewee) · verifier note: Amounts, speaker, timestamp, and the exclusion of the garbled FY2023 '$94,59' figure all check out, but the transcript attributes these payments only to 'the other one' of the Mako/Mini pair, never naming Mini Child Care Center as the recipient. The specific entity assignment is an inference from mention order.
Sweet Angel Child Care, licensed for 74 children, was allegedly paid $1.26 million in tax money in fiscal year 2025 with no kids present. Also quoted in the video's intro.
“this facility, which says it's licensed for 74 kids, was paid $1.26 26 million in tax money”
Stated by David (interviewee)
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 20 claims trace to verbatim transcript quotes with correct amounts, timestamps, and speaker attributions, and all 28 entities are directly attested or sensible ASR reconstructions; no fabricated figures or entities were found. The only defect is that the Mako vs Mini payment histories (claims 4 and 5) were assigned to specific named centers when the transcript only says 'one of them' and 'the other one' for the pair at the shared address. Garbled-caption handling was careful and conservative — unrecoverable figures were excluded rather than guessed, and the in-audio 59M-to-5.9M correction was handled correctly.
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.