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Shirley: Entitlement fraud money in Minnesota is funding Al-Shabaab terrorists
“And so like the rumors of them funding Al-Shabaab, they're real, because they've been able to funnel all this money.”
Shirley: 81% of Minnesota's Somali population receives state welfare
“That's why 81% of the population, Somali population side of Minnesota is on welfare”
Shirley: Massive welfare fraud is being committed via Minnesota daycare centers
“Massive welfare frauds being committed. People are opening up these daycares, home healthcare clinics, you name it. Anything that has anything to do with like health, welfare, or even just like helping people in general, like with daycare or with healthcare, t…”
Shirley: Minnesota funds repeat fraudsters despite severe daycare violations
“Yeah, 100%, because a lot of these daycares, there's six, seven violations, and they're still continuing to give funding to these daycares. And they have the same name, the same person has opened up. I was in one of their fraud committee meetings, the same per…”
Shirley: Minnesota fraud numbers came from an insider state capitol leak
“The man who helped me like lead the investigation himself, David, he had all the paperwork from the Capitol. He had somebody from inside the Capitol leaking in the information. So there was my like fact check per se was he had a source from inside the Capitol.…”
Shirley: Somali immigrants vote Democrat purely for government funding checks
“And so they're not really voting for what they actually believe in. They're voting for who's going to keep funding them and who's going to keep writing the checks.”
Shirley: Mayors say insiders channel government funds through family nonprofits
“I've had mares in California tell me about that who've given me firsthand accounts of them knowing the family members of people inside of the government opening up nonprofits, and then that's how they get a lot of campaign money.”
Shirley: Small YouTube channels were demonetized for political content in 2020
“Back in around 20, 20, you couldn't even make political content on YouTube without work with, without being demonetized. For instance, if you were to put Trump in a YouTube title or thumbnail on my channel, you would get demonetized because I was a smaller cha…”
Nick Shirley: Minnesota grocery shops are used to wire money to Africa
“I've talked to people as well inside of these grocery shops where they have 10 different stores, and I ask them, like, what do they do? And they have these shops where they wire off the money to Africa.”