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Minnesota government says 'Quality Learing Center' at center of Somali fraud exposé is closed as it's all of a sudden full of kids
The Post Millennial ^ | December 29, 2025 | Thomas Stevenson

Posted on 12/30/2025 2:43:51 AM PST by Morgana

The now-infamous "Quality Learing Center" which was made famous after an expose from independent reporter Nick Shirley is now reportedly shut down—however on Monday it was overrun with children.

According to the New York Post, the scene at the daycare center was bustling with children on Monday a few days after Shirley's expose on alleged fraud taking place in Minnesota within the Somali community. At the time of Shirley's report, there were no children in sight at the facility which had a now-infamous typo in the word "Learning" on its sign.

At the same time, the Minnnesota Star Tribune has reported that the center was shut down last week. The flagship newspaper has also come under scrutiny in the wake of the report from Shirley, with many claiming online that the YouTuber has been reporting on what the paper should have been doing all along.

Citing the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Tikki Brown, the Minnesota paper reported the "Quality Learing Center" was shut down last week.

However, the New York Post spoke to the son of the owner of the day care center on Monday, who claimed that Shirley's visit took place before they opened the day Shirley visited. Ibrahim Ali argued to the Post, “Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, ‘Hey, they’re not working?’" Despite the reports of the center shutting down, Ali appeared to insist that the center was open for business.

Ali also blamed the misspelling of the now-infamous sign on a graphic designer. “What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn’t think it was a big issue,” Ali claimed as he also said that he helps out with the facility's paperwork.

A resident who spoke to the Post said that the center is usually a ghost town, and that they have never seen children go in the center until today. “We’ve never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed,” the resident said.

Both of the conflicting reports about the center being "open" or "closed" were published on Monday, but the Post had a first-hand reporter at the scene.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: callingrico; closedforholiday; complicit; crime; criminalconspiracy; daycare; democrats; dflkickbacks; fraud; minnesomalia; minnesota; qualitylearingcenter; somalioutlaws

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To: Morgana

It’s not just the fraud by the daycare centers, it’s also someone connected to the MDHS who should be performing regular inspections.


21 posted on 12/30/2025 4:34:10 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: SauronOfMordor

Ohio Somali fraud.

It’s like someone generated a template, and they’re using it nationwide

https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/2005859117668118940

“ After the fraud scandal in Minnesota, a TikToker decided to investigate daycare centers in Ohio, which has the country’s second-largest Somali population.

By plugging the addresses into Google Maps, he discovered that many of the buildings didn’t look like typical childcare facilities—lacking playgrounds, proper signage, and even having blacked-out windows.

Even more striking, he found that several of these daycare centers had donated money to the same Somali congressmen.

The fraud is Minnesota is just a tip of the iceberg.”


22 posted on 12/30/2025 4:49:43 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (You’ve not seen the darkness in the hearts of men who realize no one is coming to save them.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
"Theft is a way of life in some cultures. Some of us are too naive to believe it."

Yes, in the turd world countries iron bars and concertina wire are the most prevalent thing you'll see in any of their cities or towns. And the demoncrats have taken in tens of millions of these thieving sons.

Theft, blackmail and murder is the NEW politics of America....

23 posted on 12/30/2025 4:54:04 AM PST by unread ("A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: Morgana

“””” According to the New York Post, the scene at the daycare center was bustling with children on Monday””””


Are there any videos taken on Monday?


24 posted on 12/30/2025 4:55:07 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: sheana
Yes, and conversely, guess what the sign company does if YOU deliver specs for a new sign that has a misspelled word in it?

They make that sign exactly as you said. I once saw a home security system company's display at a home show that said "Piece Of Mind". I axed the guy about the sign and he said, "Yeah, ABC sign company made that for me. Looks great, doesn't it?"

Same for that sign company up in MN. You ax for learing, you get learing.

25 posted on 12/30/2025 4:59:15 AM PST by OKSooner (Susie is Rasputin.)
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To: All

Patience Gone. Ability to feel incredulity gone.

As for the USA, not just with MN — with ANY state where fraud has been uncovered, I demand that Federal Tax dollars be stopped. Period. Now. However, leave it to this Do Nothing Republican Congress. I can just see in about half a year or so the promises of getting to the bottom of the matter and typing their strongly worded letters will happen.

Well would you expect anything more? That brick wall isn’t going to soften. Heads might. All the time the Uni Party will continue growing rich through their insider trading and thanks to fraud, the mothers milk of politics will continue flowing into campaigns for UNLIMITED Terms in The Swamp that is DC.

This country is literally screaming for Term Limits!!!!!! Now see if anything remotely close to that will so much as be discussed.


26 posted on 12/30/2025 5:01:00 AM PST by navymom1 (God bless President Trump!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It’s also whoever advised and assisted the Somalis in creating these “day care center” and “health care provider” and “in-home care provider” entities on paper with appealing-sounding names. Ignorant, illiterate Somali immigrants do not possess the linguistic skills or knowledge of bureaucracy to have done so on their own. But I’m not done - who located the office spaces, who renovated them, who ordered the signs, who painted the murals of Mickey Mouse and hung artwork to make the spaces look like actual, operating centers? Who rented the building space to them (any landlord would be aware about what was happening in their own building)? We’ve already seen videos of a few years ago of “parents” bringing their “children” to these “centers” and taking them away after a few minutes. A bunch showed up at the “Learing Center” yesterday morning, despite it having been shut down last week. Who orchestrated this effort?

The point is that these Somalis operate as an organized crime syndicate, similar to the way the Italian mafia did/does. There has to be a leadership structure and a central organization. Shame on our DOJ if they don’t undertake a massive effort to investigate and dismantle it, and it is probably not confined to a few cities in blue states.


27 posted on 12/30/2025 5:01:01 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: woweeitsme

Photographic evidence of what?


28 posted on 12/30/2025 5:01:25 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Morgana

Another article has them pretending to drop kids of and then leaving ten minutes later...all a fake show...


29 posted on 12/30/2025 5:04:03 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: OrangeHoof

30 posted on 12/30/2025 5:05:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

We have the sub-subculture that exists in Dearborn and in Minnesota there’s the Somalian sub-subculture. Even if they’re here legally, they remain twice-removed from mainstream American culture. If they’re here illegally, they’re part of a sub-sub-subculture, and if they’re criminal migrants they’re part of an alien criminal culture. Their enablers and facilitators belong to an (un)American criminal subculture that should be put in its place by any means necessary and now is the time to do it.


31 posted on 12/30/2025 5:08:43 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: EVO X
"Seems like a lame attempt to cover up the theft."

Well, yeah. Especially considering they were trucking in kids on a Monday morning after claiming the center's hours were Monday through Thursday 2pm - 10p.m.

"As many as 20 young children and toddlers were seen walking into the facility on Monday morning, prompting Ibrahim Ali, the son of the facility's owner, to hit back at reports it is usually a ghost town.
'Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, "Hey, they're not working?,"' Ali said.

He argued that when Shirley arrived and began filming the near-deserted facility, it had simply not yet opened for the day."

Source: Daycare accused of multimillion-dollar fraud shifts blame for 'revealing' mistake above its front door... as kids are suddenly 'trucked in'

Yeah, daily mail, so I guess not the absolute best source, though probably through AP wire.

32 posted on 12/30/2025 5:12:03 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Apparatchik
Ignorant, illiterate Somali immigrants do not possess the linguistic skills or knowledge of bureaucracy to have done so on their own.

Considering that Mn has mail in ballots, online voter registration, and no voter ID, I would wager that 80% of those illiterate Somalis have illegally registered to vote.

The Democrats are behind all this fraud.

33 posted on 12/30/2025 5:12:14 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: sheana

As someone else on this forum pointed out earlier, Nicollet is also misspelled (on the door) with one l (Nicolet).


34 posted on 12/30/2025 5:16:30 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Any registered voter can “vouch” for up to 8 other people who want to vote the days of the polls in Minnesota.


35 posted on 12/30/2025 5:18:36 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Morgana

This is exactly why the news about this fraud should’ve been secret until the day of massive concurrent raids and arrests. The scofflaws had too much time to coordinate cover-ups.


36 posted on 12/30/2025 5:22:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: Morgana

It takes a village to defraud.


37 posted on 12/30/2025 5:23:41 AM PST by gunnut
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To: Apparatchik

“””It’s also whoever advised and assisted the Somalis in creating these “day care center” and “health care provider” and “in-home care provider” entities on paper with appealing-sounding names.”””


The ‘whoever’ you reference are the many NGO’s such as Catholic Charities who shepherded the millions of illegals into the United States and then placed the illegals in communities across the USA.

The NGO’s helped the Somalis through the paperwork to establish their fake child care and health care facilities.


38 posted on 12/30/2025 5:26:39 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Morgana
"A little learing is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again" An Essay on Criticism
39 posted on 12/30/2025 5:30:17 AM PST by DocRock
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To: MayflowerMadam

Twitter saying State law requires access to playground and windows. Let’s see if they have been nailed on that in the past .

State official claiming they are closed down versus son saying Nick just came at the wrong time will be interesting.


40 posted on 12/30/2025 5:37:49 AM PST by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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