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Fraud Tourism Is Real and Minnesota Is the Hot Destination · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Minnesota's Somali fraud scandal has exploded over the weekend, all
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  Speaker 1: because of a very brave YouTuber in his early twenties
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  Speaker 1: that decided to do the job that the entire media
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  Speaker 1: apparatus chose not to do. Now, did he do some
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable amount of undercover journalism to get this story? No,
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  Speaker 1: he just went and asked basic questions and knocked on
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  Speaker 1: doors and what he found was billions of dollars in fraud.
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  Speaker 1: We also now know that the FBI Director Cash Ptel
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  Speaker 1: has said the Minnesota fraud scheme is a now quote
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  Speaker 1: top FBI priority and is calling it the tip of
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  Speaker 1: a very large iceberg. He also made it clear that
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  Speaker 1: the FBI is not only aware of the videos that
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  Speaker 1: have gone viral over the weekend, but is going to
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  Speaker 1: do everything to bring those who have been committing this
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  Speaker 1: fraud to justice, including denaturalization. Now, let's get to the
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  Speaker 1: core of what exploded over the weekend, and the biggest
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  Speaker 1: part of the story is simply asking questions by a
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  Speaker 1: very brave young man. He put up his video on
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  Speaker 1: social media. It is one that has obviously gone viral,
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  Speaker 1: and it's an important story about an individual using the
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  Speaker 1: power of a cell phone to then turn it into
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  Speaker 1: a forty two minute investigative video. Nick Shirley went out
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  Speaker 1: to the addresses that were listed on the government's website
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota where the money had been going by the
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars to see what he could find. And
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  Speaker 1: what he found was incredibly shocking, massive fraud and no
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  Speaker 1: kids playing at any of the learning centers time after time.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what happened. He didn't see anybody actually doing anything
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  Speaker 1: with kids. Now, the government surely knew this, but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't care because they're in on the scheme as well.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me to playing part of the videos for you.
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  Speaker 1: I encourage you to watch the entire forty two minute
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  Speaker 1: investigative video. I've put it up on x on Instagram
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  Speaker 1: and on Facebook, but I want to play part of
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  Speaker 1: what Shirley uncovered and one widely shared scene what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear. Shirley highlight that one center received about
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  Speaker 1: two million dollars this last year in twenty twenty five alone,
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  Speaker 1: despite no children or activity being a parent at the
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  Speaker 1: site during daytime visits. Now, Shirley's video claims it over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten million in fraud was documented in
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  Speaker 1: a single day of investigative reporting. Why did the media
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  Speaker 1: not do this story? Again, this was not some massive whistleblower.
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  Speaker 1: This was simply using publicly available data from the government
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  Speaker 1: of Minnesota to then go and ask questions, and Shirley
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  Speaker 1: was the only one that apparently was willing to do
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  Speaker 1: the job that all of the media chose not to do.
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  Speaker 2: When I look at the world as whole and I
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  Speaker 2: look at fraud, the Twin Cities is ground zero The
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  Speaker 2: fraud is worse here than anywhere else ever in history anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go in front these people. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 3: to these daycare centers. We're gonna see what's actually happening.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we have to be careful because these people
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  Speaker 2: are very violent. They're exceptionally violent.
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  Speaker 3: Now, with all of David's evidence, we headed out to
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  Speaker 3: the streets of Minneapolis to see how much fraud we
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  Speaker 3: could uncover in one afternoon. Where are we going.
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  Speaker 2: Now, We're going to a place called Mako Childcare, which
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  Speaker 2: actually has another childcare registered at the same address called
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  Speaker 2: Mini child Care Center.
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  Speaker 3: So we should see lots of children there's at this
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  Speaker 3: childcare centers, especially if there's two the two of.
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  Speaker 2: Them combined our license for one hundred and twenty and how.
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  Speaker 3: Much money have these childcare centers received.
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  Speaker 2: None of those vans had moved in six months. None
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  Speaker 2: of them in twenty twenty one of them received one
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  Speaker 2: point three million, and twenty twenty one they got nine
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  Speaker 2: hunt and eighty seven thousand. In twenty twenty two they
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  Speaker 2: got seven hundred and fourteen thousand. That's the last I
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  Speaker 2: have for that one, and then the other one one
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  Speaker 2: point six zero four million in fiscal year twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: fiscal year twenty twenty four they got about eight hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 2: and in twenty fiscal year twenty twenty three they got
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred and four thousand and fifty nine dollars. This
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  Speaker 2: place right here, yes, outside of it, well, this is
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  Speaker 2: actually two daycares are registered here. One of them is
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  Speaker 2: Mako what you see on the sign. The other one
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  Speaker 2: is Many Childcare Center. And between the two of these
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  Speaker 2: childcare centers, they're pulling in about three million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: And there are no children. Every facility is you go to,
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  Speaker 2: the windows will be blocked out so you can't see,
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  Speaker 2: and there's nobody here. You won't see a single child
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  Speaker 2: at any of these facilities.
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  Speaker 3: There are indeed no windows. All the windows are blacked
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  Speaker 3: out right here. All right, let's go in, No, and
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  Speaker 3: the childcare center is locked. Shoot, ring the doorbell, try
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  Speaker 3: to get in, Rang the doorbell. Nobody showed up. They're
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  Speaker 3: open seven days a week at seventy to ten pm,
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  Speaker 3: it says here on their sign. Yet there's absolutely nobody here.
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  Speaker 3: And this building here right here has generated millions of
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  Speaker 3: dollars and it seems like business isn't even open right now,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a weekday. And if this was a daycare center,
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't just be in some industrialized building there. It'd
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  Speaker 3: be maybe like a playground or something outside.
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  Speaker 2: Or there's no play area for the kids. So where
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  Speaker 2: are the kids? Where's anybody? How can there be nobody here?
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  Speaker 2: And it's like this every single day. I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: a single child here. In nine years, I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: a single child at this building right there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, then, now it looks like we've already gotten Somemali's.
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  Speaker 2: Comings tout, they're comedy, the words out.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, is this your daycare? No can tell us.
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  Speaker 2: Where there are no children? Have you ever seen children
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  Speaker 2: at this childcare center?
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't know if you've ever seen a child here? All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to the next location. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 3: the next daycare center. How much mony has this one generated?
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  Speaker 2: This one in fiscal year twenty twenty five one million,
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  Speaker 2: forty two fifty nine dollars, in Fiscal Your twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four one million, fifty nine thousand, seventy eight dollars, and
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  Speaker 2: in Fiscal Your twenty twenty three, seven hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand, three hundred and thirty six dollars.
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  Speaker 3: This next one is literally one block away, and this
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  Speaker 3: one's also generated nearly three million dollars in the past
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  Speaker 3: three years. See if there's any children, but see if
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  Speaker 3: any of the buildings are open. Here we go. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we've arrived to ABC Learning Center. All the windows are
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  Speaker 3: blocked out. Let's see if anybody is here. This door
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  Speaker 3: is locked.
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  Speaker 2: This facility is life for forty children, zero children. I
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  Speaker 2: come by this place one hundred times. I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: a child here. Ever, Another thing I've ever seen is
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  Speaker 2: someone standing outside smoking.
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  Speaker 3: What's crazy about this is that last daycare center is
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  Speaker 3: that green building right there, and the other daycare center
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  Speaker 3: right now is right here. These buildings should be operating
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  Speaker 3: as they're receiving literally millions of dollars. I knocked on
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  Speaker 3: the door. Into my surprise, somebody actually answered the door. Hello,
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  Speaker 3: can we speak? I would like to check a child
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  Speaker 3: in the daycare? Can I speak to a manager? Where
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  Speaker 3: can I get paperwork to file for my son? I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to put my son, Joey in daycare, and after
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  Speaker 3: a few questions, the lady went silent. Looks like little
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  Speaker 3: Joey Shirley ain't going to daycare here? And now where
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  Speaker 3: are we going?
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  Speaker 2: Now We're going to Sweet Angel Childcare.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the middle of a strip mall here inside
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  Speaker 3: of this neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: In fiscal years twenty five, this facility, which shaws its
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  Speaker 2: license for seventy four kids, was paid one point two
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  Speaker 2: six million dollars in tax money. And there are no kids,
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  Speaker 2: and all the facilities are the same way, all of them.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if anyone opens. Yeah, let's see once again.
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  Speaker 3: I try to find a spot for my son Joey,
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  Speaker 3: and they would not open the door. I want to
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  Speaker 3: put my son Joey in daycare because I need a
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  Speaker 3: spot to put my son Joey. Yes, is this your
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  Speaker 3: daycare center? No? I just wanted to put a child
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  Speaker 3: in daycare, but all the daycare centers seem to be closed.
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  Speaker 3: No one's opening the doors.
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  Speaker 2: You work here, oh was Yeah, what's helping? Where are
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  Speaker 2: the kids? Says it's license for seventy four children right here,
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  Speaker 2: State of Minnesota. Where are the kids? They got paid
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  Speaker 2: one point twenty six million dollars in Fister Your twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. It says they have a capacity for seventy
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  Speaker 2: four children?
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  Speaker 3: When when?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the kids stayed? In Minnesota website? You work
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  Speaker 2: here and you don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was dead before. I don't know what's goes going on?
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  Speaker 2: Were there any kids when you worked here?
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  Speaker 3: He's dead, he's dead so many I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, you worked here. Okay, well then
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  Speaker 2: you're out of any.
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  Speaker 3: Can I put my son in the daycare here?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Can I speak to someone? No? Yeah, I would like
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  Speaker 3: to see if I can put my son Joey here?
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  Speaker 3: Who is his son, Joey? My son Joey. Can I
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  Speaker 3: check out daycare center?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Do you put your kid here in the staycare? There
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  Speaker 3: is one child in there? Yeah. I would like to
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  Speaker 3: know if this is a legit business.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm scared of you too.
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  Speaker 2: How come I explain.
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  Speaker 3: You're scared of me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Because of my color. You said you're scared of me
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  Speaker 3: because of my color. Does that make you a racist?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: But you said you're you said you're scared of me
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  Speaker 3: because of my color. I'm not saying you said you're
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  Speaker 3: scared of me because of my color, that makes you
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  Speaker 3: a racist. So right now they're all getting mad because
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  Speaker 3: he's showing the paperwork of this business being registered as
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  Speaker 3: a business. Seventy four children have no children? He saw
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  Speaker 3: one child when the lady opened up the door. So
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  Speaker 3: now they're all getting mad.
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  Speaker 2: What was this money spent on one point two six million?
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  Speaker 4: What was that money spent? Run any kids after?
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  Speaker 2: Don aren't the kids?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Then why are you talking for the owner? If you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to talk to you, I'm sorry, I'm not just
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  Speaker 2: what he's talking about. Do you have a child here? No?
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  Speaker 4: Does anybody where are the seventy four kids? Did you
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  Speaker 4: lose them? Did you lose these kids? Do I need
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  Speaker 4: to call someone? Do I need to issue an Amber
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  Speaker 4: alert for missing children? Are these children missing? It's not
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  Speaker 4: my business that children are missing. Seventy four infants and toddlers,
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  Speaker 4: free school.
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  Speaker 3: The prison right there, there's no children anywhere, Buffy. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's kept buying away. I think we're moving on to
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  Speaker 3: the next location. I have a good day. I have
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  Speaker 3: a good day. As we continue to show the blatant
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  Speaker 3: fraud that was taking place here in Minnesota. Somali started
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  Speaker 3: following us around the city, and now we're being followed
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  Speaker 3: by the Somali. This is another daycare center. Absolutely no
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  Speaker 3: signage and there's no footprints in the snow of children
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  Speaker 3: playing outside. Five million dollars in the past two.
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  Speaker 2: Five point nine million they received in two years that
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  Speaker 2: facility right there.
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  Speaker 3: And now we have a group of Somali's telling us
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  Speaker 3: in our vehicle right now. From this daycare center, we
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  Speaker 3: headed over to the infamous Quality Learning Center, which actually
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  Speaker 3: spells Quality Leering Center on the outside of their sign.
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  Speaker 3: That's how blatant this fraud is here at this daycare.
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  Speaker 3: So this is Quality Leering Center meant to say quality
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  Speaker 3: learning center. They said they spelled learning wrong. How do
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  Speaker 3: you have ice here, ma'am? I'm literally a YouTuber, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think about the fraud that's taking place
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  Speaker 3: here in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 2: Don't open up? We have eyes, man. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think about this place being licensed for ninety nine children?
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  Speaker 3: Don't open up.
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  Speaker 2: And getting four million dollars over them? Four million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in the last two years. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in favor? Are you in favor of that
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  Speaker 2: go away?
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  Speaker 3: You know we're not welcome here. Are you say money?
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  Speaker 3: Are you in favor of one point nine million dollars
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  Speaker 3: going illegally fraudulently to this business that has quality learning center.
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  Speaker 3: But Kenny's still learning right on the door. Don't open up, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: We are not Ice. I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 3: You don't belong here. I belong here just like you
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  Speaker 3: belong here. Don't open up. It's Ice. You do realize
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  Speaker 3: that there's supposed to be ninety nine children in here
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  Speaker 3: at this building, but there's no one here. This is
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  Speaker 3: a child daycare center.
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  Speaker 2: It's ninety nine children paid one point nine million dollars
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  Speaker 2: this year in seacamp funding. Where the children are, where
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  Speaker 2: they kidnapped? They run away? Where are the children? This
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  Speaker 2: is state of Minnesota. Were here? And who are you?
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  Speaker 3: My name's Nick Shirley, ma'am. And who are you with
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  Speaker 3: Nick Shurley? Nick? Surely on YouTube?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so who are you with here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? He's just been doing some research and investigating the
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  Speaker 3: fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota. This lady, she's
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  Speaker 3: calling his ice. We're just trying to put law and
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  Speaker 3: order back in the streets of the United States, get
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  Speaker 3: rid of all the fraud. Have you ever seen children
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  Speaker 3: at that daycare center right there?
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  Speaker 5: Were?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's right there. It says the child. You've never
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  Speaker 3: seen dacab. We're gonna educate you on something. So what
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  Speaker 3: do you think about this daycare center? They spelt learning wrong.
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  Speaker 3: They've received over one point nine million dollars this year alone,
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  Speaker 3: and they're supposed to have ninety nine children here.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Children.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen any children here? None?
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  Speaker 5: None at all?
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  Speaker 3: None?
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  Speaker 2: Last year? This year they got one point nine million.
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  Speaker 2: Last year they got one point five million of your
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  Speaker 2: tax money for nine and nine children. We just want
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  Speaker 2: to know where the kids?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Where are the children?
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  Speaker 5: I'll see him. I've been here since twenty seventeen. I
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  Speaker 5: haven't seen anybody like that.
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  Speaker 3: And so you've never seen a child here for eight years?
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  Speaker 5: Nope, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: And how does that make you feel? Knowing that this
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  Speaker 3: place is received a one point nine million dollars disgusting?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, what the hell they stealed in the money.
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  Speaker 5: That's a federal grant too. Let's see if they get
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  Speaker 5: caught for that's a federal offense. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 5: studied law.
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  Speaker 3: And do you think Tim Watts should go to jail
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  Speaker 3: for all the fraud that's he's enabled here in his
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  Speaker 3: state that's him doing this.
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  Speaker 5: Shure, heck care, He's gonna be helicopteral for this. I've
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  Speaker 5: been just no, just no rhyme or reason. What's going
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  Speaker 5: on here?
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  Speaker 3: It's simple, it's nothing there.
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  Speaker 5: It's parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: And look, they even spelt learning wrong on their sign
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  Speaker 3: for a place that's supposed to be educating children. Children.
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  Speaker 6: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean who who runs it? Who supposedly runs it? Somalians?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Will Joey would not be accepted to that daycare. Joey's
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  Speaker 3: still looking for daycare. And because little Joey couldn't get
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  Speaker 3: into a day here, we went to an autism center,
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  Speaker 3: as they have been popping up everywhere as a rise
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  Speaker 3: of autism has occurred here in Minnesota because of the
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  Speaker 3: government funds that they're receiving. I tried to check my
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  Speaker 3: son Joey into an autism center. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: a lot of these daycare centers. We're trying to find
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  Speaker 3: a spot for our little boy Joey. But we thought
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  Speaker 3: maybe we could check them in the autism center because
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: now the daycar centers are open. Yeah, and how many
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: kids you guys have at this autism center. I can't
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: give you a burning like more than five probably probably,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: so you don't really know. What do you guys think about,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: like the fraud that's been labeled on the autism centers here?
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: What do you guys do think about the fraud? Or
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: how come the autism centers are popping up? I can't
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: My name is that Nick. We're doing a little documentary
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: trying to find little Joey a spot to put himself
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: in one of these centers here because there's the fraud. Yeah,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: because we want to make sure we're going to the
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: legit business. If we're gonna bring our little boy Joey here.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: This is not a dust well that's our number on
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you qu This is a you tell what you're gonn
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: excuse okay, thank you. So once again, little Joey he
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: can't even go to daycare and now they won't even
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: accept him, but he has autism.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: And again no kids, couldn't tell you how many kids
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: they serve.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: After being able to provide no evidence of them actually
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: being an autism center in a place where a child
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: could go, they shut the door and we headed to
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the next fraudulent daycare center that was just around the corner.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: We're on to the next location. We're still trying to
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: find little Joey a place to go to get some daycare.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: So where we're going now is a place called super
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Kids Daycare Center. Interestingly, this daycare center was shut down
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: when it was called Creative Mind's Daycare and it had
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: received two point four five million dollars this fiscal year
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. They had the shutdown because there were
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: so many violations, and they went and they just reopened
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: under a new license and they renamed the center super
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Kids Daycare Center, LLC.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: So they got shut down then started another one literally
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: the next day Creative Mind's Daycare. Two point four or
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: five million dollars got sent to this daycare center.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: We have.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Empty parking lot. We do have a bus here. This
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: is different. We'll see if we see anybody.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I knocked on the door. Absolutely nobody was inside, and
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: once again no children could be heard anywhere.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: So David, once again another child daycare center. We have
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a bus out here, no one's inside, license for over
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: fifty kids, no children anywhere, but yet millions of dollars
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: every single year.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: So the sign says Creative Mind's Daycare. They got in
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: so much trouble. They had so many violations that they
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: had to shut down and they reopened the next day
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: under super Kids Daycare Center. You see thirty Portland thirty
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: eight oh one Portland, which is where we are.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: So that's fraud right there alone.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Millions and millions of dollars. And again the kids are missing.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Where are the kids?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You'd think if they had the same address that whoever's
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: inside we're working at the capitol here inside of Minnesota,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: would just say, oh, maybe that's a red flag.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: They just write the check. Human Services. They got to
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: clean out the whole bunch. They're the ones who enabled
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: this fraud. How can you not look and say, wait
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: a minute, this these two are registered at the same address.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: On top of all the childcare centers. That's just only
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: a small piece of the fraud. What other fraud of
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the committee here in Minnesota.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: So another major piece of the fraud is the home
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: healthcare industry. Where we're going now is a building that
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: has fourteen Smaly owned home healthcare companies in the same building.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Fourteen of the same healthcare companies in the one building.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Fourteen home healthcare companies with different names in the same building.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: How bad has Tim Waltz managed the budget here inside
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: of Minnesota.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So the last biennium we had an eighteen billion dollar surplus.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: This biennium we have a six billion dollar deficit. That's
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a twenty four billion dollar swing in one biennium. How
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: in the world can you burn through twenty four billion
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: dollars in two years? This is how right here. This
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: is a huge part of it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And so would you say a lot of that is
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would say better than ninety percent of it
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: is absolute, outright fraud.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: And a large percentage of this fraud is from these
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: healthcare companies that are charging the state millions of dollars
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: while they actually aren't providing anything. In fact, the FBI
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: just died a arraide a few days ago on a
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: building similar to the one we were about to enter.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Inside of this building, they were fourteen of nearly the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: exact same businesses offering the exact same services. Right here,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: you have a list of all of the healthcare companies,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: loads of them right here. We want healthcare, Yes, we'd
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: like to speak about getting healthcare here? Why can't I
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: get healthcare here? Warning you are under video surveillance, no trespassing,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: security armed. This is the strangest place I've ever been
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to get healthcare. Just a bunch of different places. Healthcare here,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: healthcare here, another healthcare company right here. There are three
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: healthcare companies inside of this building. Right here in this
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: room of seven C. Now we have another Helping Hands
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: home Care LLC, another healthcare company present help right here.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: We're looking for the best rates of healthcare here inside
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: this building because we have so many options. Who can
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: we talk about getting the best healthcare?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: No, all right, we will not get any health care here, David.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: This is one of the stranger places I've ever been. Literally,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: healthcare every door you go to, yet nobody will give
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: you a rate. How much money think has been funneled
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: through this building every year?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I would say fifty to sixty millions at least.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: And finally we were accepted into one of the daycare
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: centers and they actually took down information to give us
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: a rate. However, when we left, we were then met
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: with the police.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: We received a complaint that tellen mentioning your description, we're
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: in this building harassing the individuals who stay here. Oh,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: we're just seeing we're checking out the rates for healthcare
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: because there's fourteen healthcare companies inside this building.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: So okay, he said, he said, there's fourteen companies here,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: and he's trying to assume because there's Somali.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Providers that everyone to your stradulent So we're gets here
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: with some kind of like propaganda.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: No, we're just checking this is this is a area
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: that we're allowed to enforce prespassing ordinance. Is there any
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: other reason that you guys are here, Well, we are
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: checking rates. We are checking rates. We asked for rates. Okay,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have if you guys grove it, we're gonna
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: set out that we all right, let's lease so all right,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: we're getting escorted out right now. The police have arrived.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: When we were checking out the rates, seeing what was
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: happening inside this building, and no one would really speak
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: with us. We did go inside the one daycare center
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and she actually did give his rates for childcare. Much
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: respect to that lady. What's the problem, offstir well? So again,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: were we've been getting reports from there now multiple individuals
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: that you guys were harassing individuals who are work here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: At the end of the day, this is private property
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and it's one that people are allowed to ask you
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to leave. And it's also in the Minneapolis Police Department
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: is allowed to enforce trespassing ordinance at this address.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so as we got escorted out of this building,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: the Somali's filmed us as we left.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Now, the FBI Director Cash Patel has come out and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: said not only is the FBI aware of the recent
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: social media reports in Minnesota, but he said even before
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large scale fraud schemes.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Is the way that he described it, fraud that steals
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: from taxpayers and rob's vulnerable children. He then said, we'll
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota and nationwide. To date,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he said, the FBI dismantled a two hundred and fifty
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: million dollar frauds game that stole federal food aid meant
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for vulnerable children during COVID. The investigation exposed sham vendors,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: shell companies, large scale money laundering tied to defeeding our
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: future network. The case has not only led to seventy
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: eight indictments in fifty seven convictions, but it had high
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: profile defendants that were busted for fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: He said these kernels didn't just engage in historic fraud,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but try to subvert justice as well. He gave an
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: example of Mohammed Nor and others that were charged for
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: attending to bribe a juror with one hundred and twenty
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cash. Those responsible pleaded guilty and we're sentenced,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: including a ten year prison term and nearly forty eight
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: million in restitution and related cases. He said, the FBI
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: believes this is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: We will continue to follow the money and protect children,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and this investigation very much remains ongoing. Furthermore, many are
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: also being referred to immigration officials for possible further denationalization
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and deportation proceedings where eligible. So it's clear not only
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is the President of United States of americaware of what's happening,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: but he has made sure that those are in charge
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of justice are fully involved in seeking it for every
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: taxpayer that's been defrauded. Don't forget to share this podcast,
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