Posted on 12/31/2025 10:50:10 AM PST by Morgana
A headscarf-wearing woman scolded a journalist for asking her if she is running a daycare out her Washington home amid a national spotlight on Somali owned fraud schemes.
Daycare centers are under intense scrutiny across the country after a massive Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota was unveiled.
After independent journalist Nick Shirley shared footage of an apparently empty Minneapolis daycare with a misspelled name sign, the federal government froze all child care payments to the state on Tuesday.
The FBI is also investigating the fraud, and Director Kash Patel said he believes Minnesota is 'just the tip of a very large iceberg.'
In Washington, local independent journalists have turned their attention to Somali-run daycares in their state.
On Tuesday, an unidentified headscarf-wearing woman, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, was seen wagging her finger at Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow Jonathan Choe outside of her Seattle home.
'Is this an actual daycare? Are you aware of the Somali daycare fraud going on? We're just trying to check out if this is a real daycare,' Choe asked.
'I am working. You don't have to come to my home,' the woman said.
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“I assume the address was somehow listed as a day care?”
And a hospice. And a medical facility. And an elder care facility. And a charity industrial kitchen that feeds the poor. And Autism care unit. A foster car home to 50 kids. .....
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