State officials, eh? I know what’s coming next.
Posted on 01/01/2026 9:47:31 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
A politically charged YouTube video thrust a group of Somali-owned day cares in Minnesota into an uncomfortable spotlight this week, accusing the owners of defrauding the state and unleashing a torrent of threats against them.
A lawyer who represents one of the operators of Minnesota Best Childcare Center in Minneapolis, which was featured in the 43-minute video, said his Somali clients have received hundreds of death threats since the video went viral late late last week.
“Everybody is very scared right now of being targeted,” attorney Jason Steck said Dec. 31. “Nobody wants to stick their head up. Nobody wants to get shot.”
The video, which questioned whether there were any children at the facilities, has rocked the entire day care community in Minnesota. On Dec. 30, the Trump administration declared that it was freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding an audit of some day care centers partly in response to the claims made by the video’s creator, conservative influencer Nick Shirley.
Those funds, which help poor parents pay for child care while working, are a lifeblood for many day cares.
In his video, Shirley claimed that Somali day cares had defrauded the state by $111 million.
In response to those claims, state officials visited all 10 of the facilities featured in Shirley’s video earlier this week. The state has not yet released any details on the findings.
The Minnesota Star Tribune also visited all 10 facilities, and found children inside four of them when invited inside. Six other facilities were either closed or employees did not open their doors.
A Star Tribune review of state enforcement records and court filings shows that none of the individuals publicly identified as owners or operators of the 10 businesses have ever been charged with fraud or any other felonies.
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Potemkin Villages
Cockroaches scurrying for cover when the lights come on.
The left circling the wagons. Anyone think there are death threats? That seems to be a standard response to elicit sympathy.
Invited? They couldn’t extend an invitation to Nick Shirley?
State officials, eh? I know what’s coming next.
IF they atre really getting death threats, it’s from their FELLOW SOMALI THIEVES FOR GETTING CAUGHT!
“Death threats” and “break-ins.” Right. 🙄
Again, a media entity takes the word of the state on the legitimacy of the facilities the state is supposed to regulate, when the media needs to be investigating the state’s claims and diligence of their actions as regulators.
Can they close doors to the people who funded them? How can there be an audit? Who is measuring school progress for the children? Are they being taught English, math, history and science?
“State Officials” = “Top Men”
An old-fashioned society where men go to work and women stay home and raise their kids doesn’t present this kind of opportunity for massive tax payer fraud.
John Hinderaker at Powerline has been on this for years and insists the Star-Tribune has blatantly refused to dig but has supplied cover time and again.
After this kerfuffle, who’s surprised the centers suddenly have kids in attendance ? No one.
If this is true, which I doubt, it is well-deserved...
The raggedy ass, far left “media”. Don’t tell me. The piggies did their own “fart checks” on the propaganda they were spewing.
Did they bother asking why a community of deadbeats where 80% are in welfare even need hundreds of day care centers?
Yea, didn’t think so.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
We found that The Minnesota Red Star Tribune can Lie to you and get you to pay us to Lie to you.
The commies are TERRIFIED that they are going to lose their Somali meal ticket. They didnt bring these people to Minnesota to improve the state, NO, they brought them here to ensure that its a one party rule state FOREVER
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