Jan 14, 2026 · 2.1M views · 📍 Cedar-Riverside (Cedar Avenue South), Minneapolis, MN · Minneapolis, MN (Park Avenue and 13th Avenue South sites) · St. Louis Park, MN · Hopkins, MN · Eden Prairie, MN
Nick Shirley and a local investigator he calls David visit the state-registered addresses of several Somali-owned non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) companies around the Twin Cities — Safari Transportation, Dreamline Transportation, Silver Mountain, Epimonia Transport, Advanced Mobility, Rayz Transportation, and Crescent Transportation — finding money-wiring shops, a liquor store, mailboxes, and an apartment complex instead of operating businesses, and alleging NEMT is the hub that supports daycare, adult daycare, autism, and healthcare fraud. They also confront daycare centers receiving seven-figure state payments (Hopkins Child Care Center, Proud Child Care Center, and Quality Learning Center), leading to repeated hostile confrontations with community members. The video ends with a retired MSP airport police narcotics officer alleging that suitcases holding $750K-$6M in cash regularly left the airport for years, routed via Atlanta to Dubai and wired on to Somalia.
Programs involved: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT)
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
HHS froze over $185 million in payments to childcare providers in Minnesota after the fraud exposure.
“the HHS froze over $185 million in all payments to childcare”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Nick estimates over $2.6 million in fraud across the two Cedar Avenue locations combined (Safari Transportation and Dreamline Transportation) — this is the sum of the two $1.3M per-business estimates.
“with those two locations alone, there's over 2.6 6 million in estimated fraud”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Hopkins Child Care Center received $2.25 million from the state of Minnesota this year, per state payment records cited by David.
“this year alone, they have received $2.25 million from the state of Minnesota”
Stated by David (local investigator, 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-quality extraction with zero hallucinations: every dollar amount, quote, timestamp, and attribution was located verbatim (or as flagged garble) in the transcript, and the extractor correctly avoided double-counting derived figures (the $2.6M sum, the $4M two-year total, the weekly airport rate). Attribution calls on ambiguously-marked speaker turns (e.g., David presenting Hopkins/Quality Learning payment records) match the video's consistent question-answer pattern, and the whistleblower is correctly described from his own self-identification (airport police narcotics, not TSA as Nick's intro says). Minor soft spots, all defensible: 'official_estimate' status for the HHS $185M rests solely on Nick's narration of a federal action, and a few entity cities (Hopkins, Minneapolis for Quality Learning, Minneapolis for 2722 Park Ave) are inferences rather than stated in the transcript.
Quality Learning Center received about $2.2 million in fiscal year 2024 (David also notes roughly $4 million over the last two fiscal years, which is the sum of this and the $1.9M figure — do not count separately).
“in fiscal year 2024, they had received about 2.2 million”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
Hopkins Child Care Center received $1.92 million from the state of Minnesota last year, per records cited by David.
“last year they received 1.92 million from the state of Minnesota”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
Quality Learning Center received $1.9 million from the state this fiscal year (licensed for 99 children).
“This fiscal year, they've received 1.9 million.”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
Nick estimates each of the two Cedar Avenue transportation companies (Safari and Dreamline) pulls about $1.3 million in gross revenue, assuming 20 vehicles, 10 trips/day at $25/trip.
“each business is pulling an estimate of $1.3 million in gross revenue”
Stated by Nick Shirley (narration)
Proud Child Care Center in Eden Prairie received $1.25 million in state funding in fiscal year 2025 (Nick later says $1.26 million; minor discrepancy).
“this child care got 1.25 25 million in funding in fiscal year 2025”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
Proud Child Care Center received $1.08 million from the state the prior year.
“It got 1.08 million last year. It opened in 2021.”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
Retired MSP airport police narcotics officer says the smallest cash amount he heard of in a single suitcase at TSA checkpoints was about $750,000.
“the smallest amount in a suitcase that I heard was like 750,000”
Stated by Unnamed retired MSP airport police narcotics officer (whistleblower interviewee)
David estimates the average NEMT payment is about $50 per trip ($100 per round trip), plus wait-time pay — a per-trip rate, not a fraud total.
“the average is going to be $50 per trip”
Stated by David (local investigator, interviewee)
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