Posted on 01/01/2026 12:57:02 PM PST by Morgana
The Somali fraud stories are emerging across the country. From its origin in Minnesota, new claims have emerged in Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, and Washington.
Yesterday, in Minnesota, state legislators and daycare providers held a press conference to speak out after the Trump administration announced that Health and Human Services (HHS) would be suspending the program until an investigation into the fraud claims was completed.
The press conference began with an opening statement from a childcare center director named Amanda Schillinger, who claims that many in her community are afraid to come forward because they’re being targeted and that she really doesn’t want to be there.
“So lets be honest about how we got here. “Our President decided he doesn’t like the Somali community and he wants to destroy them,” she said. “Speaker Demuth and the GOP caucus sent a YouTuber out to create the narrative they want out there. Not the truth.”
She continued by saying that “Minnesota does investigate suspected fraud in childcare and hold people accountable. And they will continue to do so because fraud is never acceptable. But cutting off childcare funding to everyone in the state is not the answer and its not acceptable.”
She claims that 75 percent of the children in “our program” qualify through the state for childcare funding.
Next to speak was a woman that said she is a mother, medical student, and benefactor of childcare funding spoke at the event. She began her speech, seemingly reading from her phone, by acknowledging that she’s “not much of a good speaker” but would try her best.
Nervously reading from her cell phone, she stated that 20,000 kids will be unable to attend daycare as they and their parents depend on this funding.
But when the script prompted her to say, “I understand: fraud is bad,” she covered her mouth in shock, seemingly concerned for what she had just said, and backed out of her speech.
Shortly after, a daycare owner stepped up to speak and had another reaction to the word “fraud.” This one was off script and led to some brutal honesty.
Maria Snyder, a director at a childcare center in St. Paul that was opened by her mother in 1998, began by saying she was “proud” of the work she’s done at her daycare. Snyder mentioned that many families at her center who rely on the daycare funding are “one paycheck away from becoming homeless.”
After saying that she couldn’t help but feel like this was an effort to cut funding, she pointed out signs in the crowd that read “Stop fraud!”
“And I do see some signs over here that say, “Stop Fraud!” and I agree. Stop it. There are waitlists for these programs that are years long. There is fraud…” Snyder abruptly stopped and covered her mouth with a paper she was holding.
Then she makes a heartfelt statement: “The fraud that is occurring is not at the hands of families. We need to be looking at who’s in power, who’s making decisions, who’s guarding the purse strings of our tax dollars – my tax dollars too – and make sure that children have places to go that are safe for them to learn, [so that] parents can go to work, and providers can keep their doors open.”
“That’s what I have to say. I went a little off script.”
Watch:
While most conservatives would agree that government welfare subsidies are grossly out of control, certain groups, such as children, should be helped, especially before sending billions to foreign countries and foreign wars.
However, everyone should be in agreement that rampant fraud should be rooted out and prosecuted. But those prosecutions always seem to stop at the low-level “foot soldiers” who are perpetrating the fraud. It never seems to rise to the next level: the administrators, bureaucrats, and elected officials who allow the fraud to continue, even after they’ve been made aware of it.
Snyder’s “off script” remarks align with the same concerns Scott Jennings expressed on CNN on Thursday evening. Jennings told host Abby Phillips that some people have been held accountable, but until someone in power, someone elected and in charge of administering this “goes to jail…it’s honestly never going to stop.”
This press conference comes following an alleged break in at a daycare the day before. The Gateway Pundit reported that the daycare allegedly had been broken into and had “important documentation” stolen, including “enrollment of the children and also employee documentation that was gone,” according to a “spokesperson” for the daycare owner.
The “thieves” also allegedly took checkbook papers from the checkbooks.
In a bizarre explanation, CBS News Minnesota claimed that the vandals entered the building through “cinderblock.”
RE: Fraudian slip.
I thought that psychology guy Freud was straight and didn’t wear a slip. Maybe in the closet back then.
They say he self-censored some of his research interview notes when it became clear to him that a large amount of the patients were pedophiles and he didn’t want the notoriety to overwhelm his serious discoveries about the unconscious mind.
He looks like a denizen of Sentinel Island.
Photo.
Advice from his attorneys: “Keep your chin up. If you can find it.”
It’s not up to the taxpayers to pay for child care of other families. Just my opinion. Taxes were never meant to be for this type of stuff. It’s gotten out of hand and now we can’t put the genie back in the bottle and stop all the give aways.
You win the thread!
Children should be at home with mother and not in the care of strangers.
Muse got citizenship after prison?
“a mother, medical student, and benefactor of childcare funding”
Vocabulary time: somebody needs to learn the difference between “benefactor” and “beneficiary”.
“Fraud is bad”
She just realized that is the first time in the history of the world that this phrase had every passed the lips of a Somali.
“Wasn’t “Civil Forfeiture” thoroughly reviled here at FR?”
Yes. Civil forfeiture before there is even a court date or conviction. Like NYC confiscating the vehicles of DUI suspects before there is even a trial. Asset forfeiture for restitution of a crime or recovering proceeds from a criminal enterprise after a fair trial are OK. You got a problem with recovering money stolen from the taxpayers?
Depends on the court date and the Commie/foreigner judge.
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