Nick Shirley, A 23 Year Old Journalist Who Uncovered The Alleged Massive Somalia Community Day Care Center Taxpayer Fraud In Minnesota

 As most folks have  probably heard, a young dogged, 23 year old independent journalist, Nick  Shirley, has blown the lid off of what could possibly the biggest defrauding of government programs and the American taxpayer in history out in Minnesota, His investigative video has been  viewed by tens of millions of times, if not  millions of times by now. He meticulously used government data and information to show that multiple child care centers in Minnesota were nothing more than fronts for Somalia criminal elements, and possibly state politicians, to  line their pockets with taxpayer wealth that was intended to help suffering Americans most in need. 

For those who have not heard of this despicable scandal, the following link is his compilation of likely crimes against the taxpayer that he uncovered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8AulCA1aOQ

A few  observations:

1)It was quite refreshing to view the above video and  realize that this is what real journalism looks like: research, investigate, and report. Three easy steps, not that hard. He brings data and information and uses that to guide his research and investigation, after which the corruption reporting easily drops out. Quite amazing that a 23 year old does journalism better than  just about every other person in  the mass  media, corporate news business today. And it did it all with just an X/Twitter account and a YouTube account..

2)Corporate news media used to do real journalism like Nick did. Mike Wallace and his role in the “60 Minutes"  CBS news show comes to  mind where he and his staff would continually research, investigate and then  report on corruption  and  criminal  activity every Sunday night. The New York Times used to do real journalism as one of their writers, Seymour Hersh, did on uncovering the “Pentagon Papers“ scandal. The Washington Post used to do real journalism as two of their writers did, Woodward and Bernstein, did on uncovering the Watergate scandal.

But those days are long  gone, with current corporate news media turning out suspect, unresearched, unsubstantiated, and biased news report, having forgotten how to research/investigate/report like 23 year old Mr. Shirley did.

3)While Mr  Shiley has done a great service uncovering the widespread Somali related defrauding of the American taxpayer, other, non-traditional news sources have uncovered other, likely related crimes and corruption of Minnesota government programs:

• Almost 80 people in  Minnesota have been arrested and over 50 have been found guilty to the “Feeding Our Future” scandal.

• Hundreds of state  government employees have become whistleblowers, calling attention to the Somali- related fraud, but politicians and law enforcement in Minnesota not only ignored the  warnings, but news reports imply that those whistle blowers were intimidated to stay quiet.

Thus, Mr Shirley is not an inexperienced young man playing with a video camera, what he has uncovered is consistent with other taxpayer fraud that has been going on and being ignored by the powers in charge for years in Minnesota.

4)As we have previously reported in this blog, while Minnesota is getting the most fraud and Somali attention courtesy of whistleblowers and Mr. Shirley, other Somali organized crime gangs also seem to be operating in Maine and  Ohio. And news  has broken in Washington state that similar scams and defrauding of the American taxpayer is also operating out there.

5)And how is Tim Walz, the governor, handling the situation? Is he following up on Mr Shirley's findings and whistle blower accusations to protect taxpayer wealth, is he mobilizing state government law enforcement resources to bring those likely guilty to justice, is he calling on other whistle blowers to come forward to help weed out the crimes? Rather than doing the right thing, he pulled out the tired, pathetic, and overused race card, calling Mr.  Shirley a racist. 

Such a pathetic politician and human being. If I was Mr.  Shirley I would sue the governor for defamation since there has not been any proof that Mr. Shirley is a racist nor did Walz provide any evidence that Mr. Shirley is a racist in any such way. Playing the race card is so shallow and racist in its own right.

Congratulations to Mr.  Shirley for not only exposing likely massive fraud in Minnesota day care  centers but also refreshing our memory on what real journalism is supposed to look like which is nothing that passes for journalism today in the corporate media world. May he be careful and safe, exposing criminal elements  like this can be very dangerous. And Boos to Walz  who either has no idea what is going on or is complicit in the corruption and needs to deflect using race as a shield.

The following are some other recent posts to show that Federal government and other forms of political and government corruption are not restricted to Minnesota:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/12/never-ending-government-corruption-part.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/12/never-ending-government-corruption-part_14.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2025/12/never-ending-government-corruption-part_17.html

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-2026-part-1-political-class.html

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November, 2025, Political Class Insanity, Part 1: Self Enrichment in Congress, Shades of Watergate Spying, and the Illinois Governor Goes Down in Self Delusion

 There is a lot going on in the world: Obama and Russiagate findings, Middle East powder keg, the Russian/Ukrainian war, Federal government shutdown, etc. But through all this, the American political class continues to constantly deliver its own special brand of insanity, stupidity, wasteful taxpayer spending, self enrichment, and ineffective government programs.

1)Way back in the early 1970s, Nixon got caught wiretapping the Democrats and was eventually forced to resign for spying on  his political  opposition in an  unlawful  manner. His spying also violated the critical  need to make sure that  government resources were not being used for political purposes and that the three branches of the Federal government were kept separate and equal.

It seems that history lesson  was lost on Joe Biden whose administration, under the code name "Arctic Frost,” grossly violated the same tenets that Nixon violated long ago:

• Arctic Frost was a top secret political witch hunt that Biden instituted within the Justice Department during his term in office.

• Republican Senator Chuck Grassley recently released disclosures from whistleblowers that Biden and the Justice Department had set up a clandestine surveillance operation to spy on  Republicans and conservatives.

• Specifically, according to the Senator: “I’ve obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures 197 subpoenas that were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions. The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations — all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans.”

• No warrants, no judicial proceedings, no probable cause, just political lawfare against political opposition.

• Organizations that were tracked and bugged included Turning Point USA, the Republican Attorneys General Association. White House advisers Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, and Lara Trump and over a hundred other parties.

• And Biden made sure to get a  friendly judge to issue gag orders so that this shady operation could continue without anyone spelling the beans.

• AT&T actually  refused to take part in this infringement of freedom and  Constitutional rights which shows how shady the whole  operation was if a major corporation tells the federal government “no.”

• Nixon broke  into one  office to bug phones and did not use government resources to do so.

• Biden used the FBI, the Justice Department and one friendly judge to  hide his many shady doings.

Disgusting  misuse of government power. And keep in  mind: if those in charge during the Biden administration went after high profile and  powerful  people  without cause,  going after you with that same  government  power is child's play for them.

2)Chicago is a mess: high  murder rate, violence  in the streets, skyrocketing crime, impending financial ruin right around the corner, residents and businesses fleeing out of town, not a good environment.  That is the reality, not a theory.

But apparently these conditions are not important to the Illinois governor:

• The state’s governor, J.B. Pritzker, was recently interviewed by Fox correspondent,  Brett Baier.

• Pritzker has vehemently refused to accept Trump’s Federal government help to aid in cleaning up the crime and murder rate in the city of Chicago, preferring to let his citizens get  rampaged by the high violence and crime.

• During the interview, Pritzker dodged and  deflected away from the reality in the streets in Chicago, downplaying the reality on the streets and  offering empty answers to the situation.

• Baier, however, was having none of it, and he came prepared with actual data and crime statistics  that showed the murder rate in Chicago was tops among major U.S.  cities.

• Pritzker claimed that the murder rate in Chicago was not in the  top 30 in the country, claiming that the murder rate was dropping  substantially in the  city over the past few years.

• That was when Baier dropped some real research and real journalism on the good governor: “Here’s a map. Most populous US cities, 17.47 per 100,000 population. Chicago is number one over Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, and Diego.” 

• This reality made Pritzker deliver a Kamala-like word salad nonsense answer: “What I’m explaining to you is when you want to fight crime-Now, you’re talking about violent crime. Look, you can pull statistics up. No, these are murders. I’m explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half.” 

So refreshing to see an obnoxious member of the political  class get tripped up by reality and  be shown for the empty rhetoric he and others like him preach. And kudos to Mr. Baier for actually coming prepared to  ask the tough questions and be prepared to support his question. Too bad the vast, vast majority of so-called faux journalists in the country do  not do the same, hold politicians' feet to the fire.

The governor’s bumbling answer and interview can  bee= seen at the following link:

https://thepatriotchronicles.com/news-for-you/watch-brett-baier-drops-truth-bomb-on-chicagos-murder-crisis-humiliates-lying-mayor/#google_vignette

3)Jasmine Crockett is a  Congresswoman  from Texas. She has been hateful and disgusting in her political rhetoric against non-liberals in any number of different situations, situations that we will not go into depth today. But it seems, like many other members of Congress, she may be more focused on self enriching herself while her constituents and the rest of  the country suffer from many other issues that Congress has not addressed:

• She is allegedly being investigated for  not disclosing that she owns a bunch of stocks in at least 25 companies, disclosures that are required of any member of Congress.

• If so and she did not properly disclose her ownership, that would be a violation of Federal ethics laws and be causing significant conflicts of interest.

• Her alleged stock ownership are  companies in the drug, fossil fuel technology, auto, and marijuana industries.

• But she allegedly did not disclose this ownership variety when she submitted Federal disclosure forms to  Congress.

• And even  worse, she has supported or sponsored legislation favorable to many of the companies and industries she is invested in, clear conflicts of interest.

• Although she may own shares in two marijuana  companies,  she still sponsored legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the Federal government level.

• The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust watchdog group has filed a formal  complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct, alleging that her non-disclosure may be a violation of the Ethics in Government Act:  “When Members of Congress fail to accurately and fully disclose their financial interests, it undermines the integrity of our government and erodes the public’s trust.” 

• If the allegations turn out to be true,  she could face fines up to $50,000 and a year in prison.

As the old saying goes, “the appearance of conflict of interest is as bad as actual conflict of interest”. It undermines the confidence that Americans should have that their elected representatives are doing what is best for the country, not what is best for their own self  enrichment.

4)But we really cannot totally blame Crockett for her misdoings if true. Let’s face it, Nancy Pelosi made quite the career making herself and her family very, very rich from her high position of Speaker of the House for many years. Although never receiving a Congressional salary over $230,000 a year, and far less than  that early in her 40 year career, her husband and herself apparently have a net worth  over $278 million according to analysis done by Quiver Quantitative. 

Let’s do  some simple math:

• Let’s assume that Pelosi averaged $200,000 in salary over her 40 year career.

• Thus, her total wages earned would be about $8 million.

• Let’s assume that she was in the 20% marginal tax bracket so her take home earnings would be about $6.4 million.

• If Quiver Quantitative is right, her net salary earrings represent only about 2.3% of her net worth.

• This leaves about $271.4 million of net worth to be earned by other investments she and her husband did.

• Dividing the $271.4 by 40 years, that means that net wealth gain after taxes averaged over $7 million a year, highly unlikely.

Thus, it is highly unlikely that the $271.4 million was not earned without the help of some insider trading on her behalf. In fact, we previously had described how she made a killing with the VISA IPO adventure long ago:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2011/11/final-proof-of-undeniable-corruption.html

As with Crockett’s potential unethical  behavior, Pelosi and others are examples where self enrichment in  Washington is more important than resolving issues facing Americans. She has made herself rich while at the same time resolving no major issue in 40 years. 

Another day of political class insanity: self enrichment by those in  Congress, self delusion by the Illinois governor  and  Watergate level and  beyond corruption by Biden’s  spying on Americans.

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