One reporter is investigating Somali fraud in the state of Minnesota more than the local government that probably wasted $9 billion on fraud.
Journalist Nick Shirley has been knocking on doors and asking questions to companies that took government money. Shirley is ensuring that these companies provide valid services instead of stealing from taxpayers.
Shirley is investigating a wide-ranging network of fraud across 14 social programs statewide.
Gov. Tim Walz has downplayed the scandal and somehow blamed the Trump administration. Attorney General Keith Ellison claimed that the state "shut down" scammers, but he was talking about a $4 million settlement - not billions of dollars in fraud.
In total, Feeding Our Future opened more than 250 sites throughout Minnesota between March 2020 and January 2022 and falsely claimed to have served 125 million meals.
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Court documents say that criminals have robbed Minnesota and federal taxpayers for years. The alleged criminals would submit a fake attendance roster listing the names of 2,040 children who attended one of the sponsor’s afterschool programs.
One site claimed to serve 2,000 to 3,000 meals per day, seven days a week, from a restaurant that previously had only a few dozen customers a day and $500-$600 in daily sales the previous year, according to the FBI.
The state of Minnesota should minimize fraud. We need more reporters willing to knock on doors and ask hard questions.
Again. One guy doing more to investigate fraud than the entire Walz administration. https://t.co/NPB1lnlnWv
— Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) December 26, 2025
4 million dollars of hard earned tax dollars going to and an education center that can’t even spell learning correctly.
— Tom Emmer (@tomemmer) December 26, 2025
Care to explain this one, @tim_walz? https://t.co/mGhS5IP4km
Journalist Nick Shirley EXPOSES a Somali daycare in Minnesota with no kids yet receiving millions in funding.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 26, 2025
They slam the door in his face.
“You have 102 children, and you got $2.66 million dollars? Where’s the money?”
Well done @nickshirleyy
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🚨 BREAKING: ICE has announced they are shifting resources to SOMALI HOTBEDS, carrying out raids in Minneapolis as well as Columbus, Ohio
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 26, 2025
Thank GOD!
KEEP PUSHING! The Somalis MUST go back to where they came from! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/6Ef5yC5W5e
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Somalis in Minnesota CALLED THE COPS on independent journalist Nick Shirley after he "shopped around" health and daycare rates in a sketchy building
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 26, 2025
“Healthcare every door you go to - yet nobody will give you a rate!"
So instead of investigating the suspicious… pic.twitter.com/3qcJVt37yF
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Fake Somali “day care center” workers just got CALLED OUT to their FACES by journalist Nick Shirley and team
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 26, 2025
“Where are these 74 kids??! Did you lose them?! Are these children missing?!”
“They got paid $1.26 MILLION in tax dollars in 2024! But no kids!”
This… pic.twitter.com/hhp9XGHjOl
The Somali fraud scandal has dominated the news cycle for over a month now, carrying straight through the Christmas season.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) December 26, 2025
Not to mention that Minnesota’s state legislative session starts in January too.
This story isn’t going anywhere.
We’ve only just begun.
