5 of 10 daycare facilities in Nick Shirley's Minnesota report were meal sites for fraud-laden 'Feeding Our Future' nonprofit

Five of the 10 Somali daycare centers that were visited by Nick Shirley in his viral exposé on alleged fraud in Minnesota were also meal sites for the fraud-laden "Feeding Our Future" organization. The case surrounding fraud with "Feeding Our Future" has seen over 90 people charged and at least 60 people have been convicted.

According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, half of the 10 daycare facilities that were visited by Shirley were also connected to Feeding Our Future as "meal sites." Altogether, the five daycare businesses got nearly $5 million from Feeding Our Future between 2018 and 2021. The five businesses that were featured in Shirley’s report have not been legally accused of wrongdoing in the case, but have been brought under higher scrutiny since Shirley's exposé.

Of the 10 daycare sites the Tribune visited, reporters with the outlet said that only four of them had any children present, and in the other cases, "Six other facilities were either closed or employees did not open their doors," the outlet said.

In one facility that was licensed for over 100 children, only 50 were present. The daycare center that was at the core of Shirley's exposé, the Quality "Learing" Center, which has since corrected a typo in its sign to "Learning", has had a slew of violations over the past few years. A Minnesota resident also said that Monday—a few days after Shirley's report—was the first time they had ever seen children at the daycare.

In 2024, the daycare had a violation for not reporting a “death, serious injury, fire or emergency as required." However, in that case, like dozens of others, the state's website said the daycare center corrected the violation with "Correction Documentation" which was then approved by Minnesota.

Shirley's exposé—where he and a Minnesota local by the name of David investigate the operation of several Somali-run daycare centers—has gone viral online, with over 130 million views on X and nearly 3 million on YouTube. After its release, the Trump administration has frozen all child care payments going to Minnesota. Some in the mainstream media and on the left have now taken aim at Shirley instead of looking deeper into his allegations of fraud.

It gets worse in Shakopee:

Woman beheaded in broad daylight on Minneapolis street
americanmilitarynews.com ^ | July 29, 2021 | RYAN MORGAN
Posted on 7/29/2021, 4:16:06 PM by PROCON

The beheaded body of a Minnesota woman was found on a sidewalk in Shakopee, a suburb of Minneapolis, on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the Shakopee Police Department identified the victim as 55-year-old America Mafalda Thayer of Shakopee. The police department said they responded to a report of an attack at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Spencer Street at around 2:31 p.m. on Wednesday.

Shakopee Police announced they have arrested a suspect, 42-year-old Alexis Saborit, also of Shakopee, on suspicion of second-degree murder.

Saborit is being held in the Scott County Jail, pending murder charges.

Shakopee Police Chief Jeff Tate told Bring Me The News that a bystander captured the brutal attack on video and shared it on social media.

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The shadowy money system Somalis rely on — and terrorists exploit
Moves cash without banks or paperwork; A growing concern for US officials

By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published December 11, 2025

Minnesota lawmakers open up about what’s next to fix massive fraud scandal

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The massive and sprawling $1 billion welfare-fraud schemes engulfing Minnesota are now casting fresh scrutiny on an old, opaque money-transfer network used by Somali Americans to send remittances back to their loved ones and friends — a system U.S. officials have warned can be siphoned or taxed by the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

Known as hawala, the centuries-old system moves money without banks, wiring infrastructure or standard documentation, yet it remains a lifeline for families in Somalia, where a national banking system barely exists. The system works by having a sender give money to an agent in the United States, who then instructs a partner in Somalia to pay the recipient directly, with no money ever physically crossing borders.

Hawala functions as an alternative remittance system, relying on trusted agents rather than banks. It is fast, inexpensive and reaches remote regions of Somalia where no formal banking system exists. For many Somali Minnesotans, hawala-linked payouts are the only practical way to support relatives overseas.

pic-—A file image shows al-Shabaab militants in Somalia (left), alongside a woman counting Somaliland shilling notes at a currency exchange stall in Hargeisa on Nov. 8, 2024 (right).

Somalia’s limited banking system means many families depend on informal money-transfer networks such as hawala — channels experts say can be vulnerable to taxation or exploitation in areas controlled by al-Shabaab. (Abdurashid Abdulle/AFP via Getty Images; Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images.)

But U.S. officials are sounding the alarm on the system, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing last month that the Treasury Department has opened a formal investigation into whether Minnesota taxpayer dollars doled out in the various schemes were diverted into financial channels that may benefit al-Shabaab which imposes taxes, extorts businesses or controls trade routes.

The House Oversight Committee has also launched its own inquiry into the fraud and the potential terror-finance risks, while Minnesota State Sen. Jordan Rasmusson said the concern is serious. “Because there’s more than a billion dollars that’s been stolen and a significant portion of those dollars have been directed overseas, there are concerns this money could be either directly or indirectly funding terrorist organizations like al-Shabaab,” Rasmusson told Fox News Digital.

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