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then that I was down sick during my vacation during Christmas,
some flu like thing that tried to murder me. I survived,
so I am here. But the voice sounds a little rough,
got some congestion going on, So I apologize if I
sound rough, But if I sound better, then you're welcome.
Melissa says, yes, your immune system often dips on vacation
due to what's called the letdown effect, where stress hormones decrease,
making you vulnerable to new germs and existing viruses after
a high stress period. Well, I mean it's not like
high stress on it. It's not like I went through
like two and a half straight months of events and
election coverage. No, actually, that does make sense. People keep
spamming me with this stuff about Andy Griffin. Look again,
I'm just telling you what the experts told all of
the listeners of WBT, like twenty years ago. They went
into great length, covered lots of the episodes, like there
was the crossover episode with the Dukes of Hazzard, like
that was a classic. Spires and Krantz the Afternoon Morning
or sorry Afternoon Drive team here, like, they talked a
lot about Andy Griffin. They were experts on it. They
knew all the episodes, like when Opie got busted for
smoking crack behind the barn, like all of the episodes.
So Russ says, it's funny how people who don't know
about Chet or Tricksie cannot handle Andy Griffin references. By
the way, that was another thing that Spiers and Krantz
would allow callers to do. If you didn't want to
give your real name when you called in, you could
you could use the name Chet or Trixie, and that
was the well. If you were a dude, you used Chet.
They were different times. But dudes used chet and the
gals used tricksye, so they were a comedy duo. Also,
they were the ones that first introduced me to the
hit classic Christmas tune Sammy the Christmas Snake. So all right,
one of the other stories, because I said, even though
I was near death, I did keep up with the news.
And so one of the stories that I saw move
across the social media actually not really at all in
the legacy media. And maybe they were all on vacation
or fighting, you know, a flu like I was. So
maybe they just haven't gotten around to covering it yet.
That's possible. It's possible, But it was sort of an
add on story. I've talked about this before. We say,
in the in the media biz, in the news biz,
if a story has legs, it means that you do
the first story, the initial story, but then the story
can continue to move through multiple news cycles for days
or weeks or months or even years. Right, So that
story has legs. And so this story about the obvious
massive fraud that has occurred up in Minnesota, this story
has legs. So you'll recall, before I was nearly murdered
by the flu, before I went out on vacation. Last week,
we had covered the story, the initial bombshell of the story,
which was widely covered by legacy outlets, mainly because the
US Attorney, the first Assistant US Attorney, Joe Thompson, held
a press conference and denounced, you know, a whole bunch
of charges and an investigation and all this stuff into
at least nine billion dollars that was billed across fourteen
medicaid services in Minnesota that may be fraudulent. Nine billion
dollars okay. According to Thompson, fourteen medicaid services under audit
and deemed to be high risk for fraud have cost
the state eighteen billion dollars since two thousand and eight.
Team Thompson said that a substantial amount of money build
across those programs is fraudulent, but the exact amount is
still under investigation. He said, I don't make these generalizations
in a hasty way. When I say significant amount, I'm
talking on the order of half or more of the
eighteen billion. That's where we get the nine billion figure from,
he said. But we'll see. When I look at the
claims data and the providers, I see more red flags
than I see legitimate providers. Thompson said, the scale of
fraud outpaces that of other states and put services at
risk for people who really need them. And I will
make this point once again as I made over a
week ago, which is that you would think that the
people who advocate for these programs, who want more government
funding for programs and services to help people, you would
think that they would be the biggest hawks when it
comes to spending, that they would be the ones watching
every penny. Well, we can't watch pennies anymore because they
discontinued those, but watching every nickel and dime and quarter
and dollar, right, they would be watching to make sure
that there is no waste, fraud or abuse, because every
dollar that is lost to waste, fraud or abuse is
a dollar that is not going to help the people,
which was the whole reason why you spent all that
political capital theoretically to get these programs put in place. Right,
But for some reason, it does seem like the biggest
advocates for the spending and the programs and the services
don't ever seem to care about all the waste and
fraud and abuse. I'm just pointing that out. Just it
doesn't seem like there's a lot of energy from the
proponents of these programs. Back to the CBS news story.
While prosecutors typically see fraud manifest as providers over billing
for their services, Thompson said during this news conference that
companies have been created to provide no services at all,
and then they just pocket the federal funds and use
it for things like international travel, luxury vehicles, and lavish lifestyles.
Like why bother even like going through the hassle of
creating and providing a service at all if you don't
have to write the magnitude cannot be overstated. He said,
what we see in Minnesota is not a handful of
bad actors committing crimes. It's staggering industrial scale fraud. Okay,
keep that in mind, industrial scale fraud. I would submit
that in the latest revelation that's related to this story,
the story that has legs right, the next leg in
the story is another piece of evidence of the industrial
scale fraud. There is a template, there's a model. It's
like a factory. You figure out how to make the thing,
and then you just keep churning them out. You just
keep making these fake businesses. You keep applying for the
fake or the real grants for your fake company, and
you just keep siphoning off more and more money. And
once that template works, you just replicate the template, and
you just keep doing it over and over and over again,
and you find all different services and programs to go into.
So this is about mediciate fraud. Just medicate. That's what
his announcement was about. Medicaid. More than ninety percent of
the people charged in the major fraud cases announced before
this press conference. So again, ninety percent of the people
that have been charged, and we're talking dozens so far,
ninety percent of them are Somali. They're from Somalia. Governor
Tim Walls, he of the Jazz Hands, the very manly
vice presidential candidate. He denounced President Trump's comments about all
of this, saying that an audit do for completion by
late next month should give a better picture on the
extent of the fraud. He said his administration is taking
aggressive action to prevent fraud in the future. Okay, enter
onto the scene. One Nick Shirley, a twenty three year
old YouTuber with one microphone, a camera guy, and two
security staffers and some random researcher who apparently reached out
to Nick Shirley with a whole bunch of research that
prompted Nick and his CA guy with their two security
guys in tow to go pay a visit to several
service providers. Scratch that, not really sure they're service providers.
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independent journalist YouTuber guys twenty three years old. I was
talking with producer Burnie before the program today about you know,
is he a journalist or not? Like, a journalist doesn't
really have a definition. It could be anything like, really,
you know, you can get credentials that say I went
to a school, I mean I did. I graduated with
a degree in mass communication broadcast although you would never
know it. But does that make me a journalist? If
I go to work in a newsroom as I did
here at WBT, and I go out, I cover meetings
and that sort of thing, does that make me the journalist?
What if I had never gone to college but I
was still doing the same kind of work, But I
still be a journalist, right? So it like I count
all journalists as sort of the same, because it's just
sort of a it's a tag, and there are good
journalists and ethical ones, and then there are propagandists that
are masquerading as honest journalists. Right anyway, So this guy
is twenty three years old, he's unpolished. I watched the video.
He put out, a forty two minute video from his
tour of dozens of places that claim to be daycares,
adult daycares, and there were even some transportation companies that
don't seem to actually be legitimate businesses. And he did
what journalists do, which is to document via video, right,
his attempts to enroll I believe a fictitional Joey Jr.
In the daycares. So at the beginning of the video,
Nick Shirley introduces a man named David, who he says
did the research. David lives in Minneapolis, and David has
been doing the research into all of these daycares, these
home healthcare providers and transportation companies.
Speaker 2: How I got involved is that where my office is
here in Minneapolis, I'm sort of in the heart of
all of this fraud, and I would see these childcare centers.
I said, well, there are any kids there. It's the
middle of the day and all I see are a
couple of guys standing out front smoking. And then I'd
go buy another daycare and I'd see the same thing.
I said, well, where do these kids playing? So I
started to go online and look and I said, this
place is licensed for eighty children. They had zero children.
Every time I went by there, they never had a
single child there. Then I started to see all these
transportation companies going around and it was always a Somali
driver and I said, well, that's great, they're out there
transportation contributing, but they never had a passenger, never ever once.
And I said, well, what is all this transportation? What
are they doing? So then I found out that in
Minnesota they have something called non emergency medical transportation, so
this is going to the dentist's office, therapy, whatever it
might be. And I said, well, how many of these
companies are there? And the research came back that there
are oney twenty of them and more than eight hundred
of them are Somalioned. Nobody from the state of Minnesota
ever cross checks to see if any rides were ever
actually provided. All they did was write the check.
Speaker 1: See so that sounds like a problem. I mean, okay,
over one thousand transportation companies and eight hundred of them
are Somali owned. Again, industrial scale fraud. When you find
a template, a way to commit the fraud, then you
replicate that over and over and over and over and
over again, and you get different people. In this Somali community,
which is very closed, tight knit, right don't They don't
talk to outsiders, they don't assimilate into the general population,
and so they obviously have struck upon a get rich
quick scheme and they're replicating it. And by the way,
this is not I mean, aside from the fraudulent nature
of it, but the idea that you would replicate a
model that generates revenue and wealth for your community, this
is not This is not a new concept people. I
remember I've told this story before. Many years ago. I
went down for a ribbon cutting of a new hotel
or motel in rock Hill. I was working at the
local radio station down in rock Hill, and it was
a chamber event and they were celebrating the opening of
this new motel and I interviewed the owner and he
talked to me. He was from India, and he talked
about how he got started in the business, and he
spelled it all out for me. And there's nothing illegal
about what he and his family did, which was back
home in India, they all gathered their money and they
give it to one person who comes over to America legally.
They then open a business and they then are able
to bring over through our immigration laws, are able to
bring people of their family over. They put them to
work in the motel that generates wealth. They then bring
somebody else over or they give the money to somebody
in their family that's already here and they open another motel.
That's how you build generational wealth for that family. And
that is a It's a model that is used all
over America and by immigrant populations for probably what two
hundred years. I got no problem with that. So the Somalians, Simolians, Somalis,
they have obviously figured out a bit of a different
twist to be sure. Now, this researcher, Guy David, he
had a couple of theories as to why this sort
of thing has exploded in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: What has happened is that the Somali community is a
very closed community. They will not speak to anyone outside
the community and talk about what's going on within the community.
They vote as a block, and so when you're a politician,
you're saying, look, I've got one hundred thousand people in
Minnesota that if I do something for the community, they're
going to vote for me. And that's what it's all about,
is getting the votes. And then the people here in
Minnesota here this term Minnesota, and I I'm so sick
of that term. The people here are so afraid of
being called a racist or an Islamophobe, and they're just
they're afraid of their own shadow. And I don't understand
this is our future generations are going to have to
pay for all this fraud, and they just want to
bury their heads in the sand and go on and
just not worry about it.
Speaker 1: So two of the things that he said there that
the Somali community has closed, they don't speak to outsiders,
and that a lot of the Native Minnesotans are afraid
of being called racist. Ironically or maybe not ironically, to
prove the point, I guess both of those things occurred
in the video. When Nick Shirley went to these places,
he was yelled at, they refused to speak to him.
Those that would actually open a door or come that
would come across his path, refuse to talk to him
about any of it. Nobody knew anything, and then one
woman called them a racist. Basically, so like the very
things that David said would occur did occur, because it
has been occurring. This is how they inoculate themselves against
any kind of criticism or examination or investigation. Apparently, you know.
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a comment in the last segment about this guy, Nick Shirley.
He's twenty three years old, he's a YouTuber. He is
being identified as an investigative journalist, which is fine. I
don't have any problem with that he is, and I
said he's unpolished. I don't mean that as a smear
against him, but like, there are some things that I
saw in the video that I thought if he had
some training in how to do these types of interviews,
it might it might have yielded some other results. For example,
he goes up to one of these daycares and he
actually gets somebody to answer the door, and he says
he wants to enroll his child child there, Joey Junior
or whatever, little Joey or something, and can he get
some information, can he come and take a look? And
they're like no, no, no, And he's like, well, where
why are there no kids here? Keeping This is a
question He keeps asking at all of the places, where
are the kids? Where are the kids? And I believe
they are a future but that's just me. But the
person at the door, this woman at the door, in
answer to the question, says they're not coming until two o'clock.
The next crowd comes at two. And so what I
would have done, I say, okay, all right, thank you
very much, I appreciate it. Then I would have gone out,
sat in my car and waited until two o'clock and
watched to see if any kids actually do get dropped
off at the daycare, right, because that would confirm that
there are no kids at the daycare. Now, look, I
would be shocked if there are actually kids, hundreds of
kids at all of these daycares that he visited that
have been listed in the report. I don't think there are.
I think it's a it's a fraud. That's my initial
assessment of what I saw him doing. And it's not
just daycares either. It's these home healthcare services that supposedly
send healthcare workers into people's homes or something, and these
transportation companies and when you go when you see the storefronts,
these are places that are like you've in one of
the buildings that he visited, there's like fourteen businesses, these
home healthcare services or providers operating out of one building.
And the building is an industrial warehouse. Right, It's the
kind of place that commercial industrial warehousing type of companies
they'll rent or lease space, you know, in a larger complex.
And you walk down these you know, concrete hallways and
there are you know, a dozen doors, and all of
the doors are for the same kind of business, which
that like, that's usually not a good practice to set
your practice up next to a dozen other practices of
the very same kind. You know, that's probably not a
good idea. Unless you're Starbucks. That's probably not a great idea.
Probably want to be someplace else, go to a different
part of town, service a different clientele, rather than trying
to compete for a very small pool, unless, of course
there are no actual customers.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But this is part of what makes somebody a journalist
is that you actually go and you lay eyes on something.
You don't just hang out in the newsroom reading social media,
making a couple of phone calls and then pounding out
a story for the blog. Right. It's a different kind
of journalism, which this kid was engaged in. I say, kid,
he's twenty three, and he's been doing it for a while.
He's been he has he's been running these types of
videos for a couple of years now. So let me
jump over here and get Craig on the program. Hello Craig,
and Hello Craig.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see how anybody can see this anything
other than just wholesale taxpayer money laundering for Democrat votes.
Speaker 1: It does appear to be what it is.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, And I mean that's the way I see.
That's pretty much what most welfare programs are, and ever
since LBJ have been designed for that trict purpose.
Speaker 1: Well, Milton Friedman talked about this in that they were
very He said the only welfare program that he could
identify as actually being for the poor was food stamps.
Everything else was basically a redistribution of wealth from taxpayers
to create a sort of to the middle class, bureaucratic class.
The administrators of these programs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they so they have a lot of and a
lot of this money that's donated or given us on
for a program doesn't actually even make it to the
end recipient. It just makes it to the large bureaucratic
class of people who just sit on their but all day,
play with owner emails.
Speaker 1: Well, so, right, so you've got the administration. They take
a cut of the taxpayer funding obviously, right, they get
paid their salaries to dole out the money. And in
the past, it was predominantly you know, government programs, right,
actually housed inside the government, and that was a way
for you to hire a bunch of people that would
then vote for you. Then you could give them raises,
they would give you more money, you could win reelection,
raise more money. That sort of cycle, right, that money
laundering kind of cycle. With the advent probably about twenty
twenty five thirty years ago, with a lot of the
public private partnerships where look, government can't do these programs
as well as the private sector, so let's let's do
block grants to nonprofits. And when we started seeing a
lot more of that occur. Now you've got a new model. Well,
you've got a variation of that old model where we're
not going to actually hire government workers. We're just going
to use the NGOs at the international level or the
nonprofits at the national level. We're going to use these
nonprofits to basically run the same cycle, and the Somali's
figured it out right, like they say, well, if you're
going to run these programs, then we're gonna take advantage
of them.
Speaker 3: Oh. I don't expect anybody to face any punishment over
this because it's been operating the way it was intended
to do. So, I don't know. They might, you know,
throw some low level hourly worker under the bus, but
I don't expect anything to change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that if you well, I mean, remember
now you've got the Trump administration's US attorneys that are investigating.
The FBI says they are aware of Nick Shirley's report
and they're investigating. So you may see a bunch of
the providers get taken out. You may see. I think
I just saw actually, you know, immigration Enforcement action targeting
some of these owners and providers and stuff. But right
to your point about like the elected leadership, what did
they know, what role did they play in this stuff?
I'm not confident that any of them will ever face
any kind of punishment, and that's unfortunate because it destroys
credibility and trust in the system. Craig, I appreciate the call,
you know, I don't want to be all blackpilled about this.
We just learned about these things. And you know, the
US Attorney's only been in there for what nine months
or so ten months at the most, so they obviously
have been investigating. They, like I said, mentioned earlier about
the arrest, they made the announcement they made two weeks
ago about the medicaid fraud. So this is just part
and parcel of that. So I got to believe that
they will continue to chase down all of the leads.
Now media can help, and I know, like I think
there's one local maybe two local stations up there that
have done stories. They have done reporting on some of
the fraud over the last few years. This is not
a new issue. It's just now coming to light on
the national stage, which is really really weird. Because the
guy who was in charge of the state was just
the vice presidential candidate. You would have thought that maybe
some reporters might have started digging around into some of
these stories that were already out there about this kind
of fraud. I did get a message here from the
Hellion who says, too many dependent on the system, and
they have all the gatekeepers the media you can run
with frauding. I think it works. Frauding I like it.
The term is frauding. And then I saw somebody said,
it would be interesting, this is Rodney. It would be
interesting if any of these so called learning centers. No, no, Rodney,
they're not learning centers. They're leering centers. I mean, that's
what the sign said above one of the the leering centers.
It's a daycare, after school programs and such to help
kids get educated. And it says it right there l
EA R I NG it's a leering center. It's right
on the sign. And if you can't trust those people
to educate your kid, I don't know who you can trust.
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Speaker 5: Hey Pete. Almost happy in a year. I hope you're
feeling better even better?
Speaker 1: Yes, I am feeling much better than I did last week. Yes,
thank you.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 5: Something that occurred to me because you know, from the
New York area, and we always hear about like Rico
this and Rico that. Wouldn't this fall under the Rico statute.
It's organized, it's been replicated, it's a so broad as documented.
I that was just a thought I.
Speaker 1: Hadn't and yeah it could. I mean I don't know
all of the all of the statutes regarding RICO and
how they apply and how they can be used, but
it would not I mean, my first assumption would be,
I'm sure that, depending on the scale and the people
involved and whether there was coordination, was it done to
you know, cover up a criminal enterprise of a different kind,
which you could make the argument it was because they
were funneling money back to Somalia, uh and that no
money goes through those those financial markets there unless al
Shabab gets a cut, which is a terrorist organization. So
you could, yeah, I mean you could, you could try
to make the case.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, thanks Jerry, I appreciate the call. Happy New Year. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know if that's what they're
going to try to pursue. They could, depending on the
facts of the individual cases. So we'll see. There was
one daycare in particular that went viral for two reasons
actually one I alluded to before the break and the
other well, here you take a listen.
Speaker 4: So this is quality leering center. I meant to say
quality learning center. Don't open they said they spelt learning wrong.
Don't open up?
Speaker 1: How do you have ice here, ma'am.
Speaker 4: I'm literally a YouTuber.
Speaker 1: Don't open up, ma'am.
Speaker 4: What do you think about the fraud that's taking place
here in Minnesota?
Speaker 2: Don't open up?
Speaker 1: We have eyes man.
Speaker 2: What do you think about this place being licensed for
ninety nine children?
Speaker 1: Don't open up.
Speaker 2: And getting four million dollars over them, four million dollars
in the last two years. What do you think about that?
Are you in favor? Are you in favor of that
go away?
Speaker 1: No, we're not welcome here, kamni.
Speaker 4: Are you in favor of one point nine million dollars
going illegally frauduly to this business that has quality learning center?
But Kenny is still learning right.
Speaker 1: On the door. Don't open up, ma'am.
Speaker 4: We are not ice.
Speaker 1: Now. Maybe she was talking about all of the snow
and ice that was on the ground in the parking
lots where no little children's footprints could be seen. Maybe,
but I think she was talking about immigration customs enforcement.
Oh and by the way, that woman was not a
Somali woman. It was an older white woman with a
galactic sized bleeding heart with immeasurable amounts of empathy because
she's obviously better than you. Okay, that's that's the message.
She cares more than you. She's Minnesota nicer than you.
She wants the people in the building who are here illegally,
maybe committing millions of dollars worth of fraud, to not
open the door because they could face some sort of
repercussion for their illegal activities, because she cares more than
you care. She cares about people, even the ones that
are committing massive fraud. See that the two reasons, the
Quality Leering Center sign on above the door, and then
obviously this leftist moonbat that's out front accusing Nick Shirley
of being ice. Some of these daycares were in these
like industrial commercial warehouse buildings. They had no visible amenities
for kids, no playgrounds right, no outdoor spaces. They were
door maybe a window in like this big concrete block
building in a you know, in like a warehouse district,
and the windows at many of the places that they
went to, if not I think every one of them,
there was one. I think there was one building that
had a window that you could kind of look through
on the side. It was like a slat, like a
very thin window next to the door. But all the
other windows, if a building even had windows. All the
other windows were blacked out again, Like there's a template, right,
Like when you set up this fraudulent business, this is
what you need to do. You need to hang a sign,
you need to block out the windows if you have
any right, and then you need to keep the doors locked,
which was also kind of a weird thing, but like
do you keep the doors closed at the daycare center
because you know you don't want intruders to add access it?
Like I could understand why you would lock the doors
of a daycare center to protect the kids inside, So
that makes sense. But if somebody comes to the door,
which this is another thing that I would have done differently.
I would have gone in alone or maybe brought a
child with me and said I would like to enroll
my kid in your daycare. But when you show up
with a camera, guy that's the daycare operator is not
going to let you in.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: In fact, they called the cops on him. Two different
people at two different places called the police to have
Nick Shirley removed for trespassing because it was private property,
and that is their right to do that. They can
call people, They call the cops to get people off
of their property. They can totally do that. The other thing, though,
is that it is not just about the daycares. It's
not just about the kids. Multiple storefronts for adult healthcare
companies were in the same offices buildings in industrial areas.
One building had fourteen companies in one building, another had
twenty two.
Speaker 4: We want healthcare, yes, we'd like to speak about getting
healthcare here? No?
Speaker 1: No, no, Why can't I get health care here? Wait?
Speaker 4: Wait, warning, you are under video surveillance and no trespassing
security armed. This is the strangest place I've ever been
to get healthcare. Just a bunch of different places. Healthcare here,
healthcare here, another healthcare company right here. There are three
healthcare companies inside of this building, right here in this
room of seven c Now we have another Helping Hands
Homecare LLC, another healthcare company present help right here. We're
looking for the best rates of healthcare here inside this
building because we have so many options. Who can we
talk about getting the best healthcare?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 4: No, all right, we will not get any health care here, David.
This is one of the stranger places I've ever been. Literally,
healthcare every door you go to, yet nobody will give
you a rate.
Speaker 1: Isn't that weird? Do you want my business or is
it I'm not the customer, right, You don't need a customer,
You don't need me as a customer because your business
is something else. This is what we would call a front.
This is a front for something else. You're doing something
else through this business that would actually be detrimental if
you had customers, right, it would be working at cross
purposes bringing people in. And one daycare provider said that
this is not the daycare for you, which I think
was a reference to the fact that he's not Somali.
These businesses, by the way, the particularly the adult healthcare
providers quote unquote providers, they are served if you will,
by the transportation companies, which also don't actually do anything.
See like one of the transportation companies they drove by,
they had all of their vans that were parked in
their parking lot and it had snowed, which was why
that woman was screaming ice issome, and none of the
vehicles could be moved because they were all buried in snow.
So they're not actually doing a lot of transporting of people.
And this is during normal business hours on a weekday. Again,
there is a word for this kind of an operation.
It's called a front all right. That'll do it for
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