Americans in Ohio and Washington have hit the streets to investigate if childcare centers in their neighborhoods were fake after YouTuber Nick Shirley went viral for investigating allegations of systemwide fraud in Minnesota’s childcare programs.
Shirley’s videos, which featured drop-ins at child care centers owned by Somali immigrants, happened amid the FBI’s own probe into widespread fraud schemes by individuals that funneled millions of dollars into Minnesota’s Somali community.
Citizen investigators went to Somali-run childcare operations in Ohio and Washington and said they discovered vacant centers, homes with sheets covering windows, and people denying that it was a daycare, per videos shared on social media….