by Frank Bergman
Minnesota officials and Somali community representatives are scrambling to downplay explosive allegations of large-scale daycare fraud after a viral investigative video raised new questions about state-funded child care centers.
The allegations are prompting emergency press briefings, defensive explanations, and assurances that regulators had seen no wrongdoing.
The controversy centers on footage released by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who visited several Somali-run daycare facilities in Minnesota, including the Quality Learning Center in Minneapolis.
As Slay News reported, the facilities appeared largely inactive despite receiving millions in taxpayer-funded child care assistance.
Notably, the Quality Learning Center even mispelled its own name as “Quality Learing Center.”
The ghost “daycares” are believed to be part of a massive multi-billion-dollar fraud scam led by members of the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota and several other states.
