Fraud investigator Nick Shirley goes viral after slamming Newsom
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Via: vic-eldred • 8 months ago • 42 commentsBy: Elizabeth Heckman (Fox News)
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YouTuber and independent journalist Nick Shirley went viral Monday for his response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office on social media after it mocked his efforts to expose alleged fraud by daycare centers receiving millions of dollars of government funding.
Newsom's office mocked Shirley by posting a photo of a man carrying several cameras at a daycare and asking a teacher, "Hey, can I see your kids?"
Shirley did not hold back in his response.
"You do realize I'm trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right?" he said in a reply to the post Monday night. "No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them."
Shirley gained national attention after releasing videos he said expose fraud in Minnesota.
A 42-minute video of him investigating Minnesota daycare centers that appeared inactive despite receiving millions of dollars in government funding went viral in December.
The video, which has been viewed more than 138 million times on X alone, prompted investigations by federal officials and led the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to freeze all childcare payments in Minnesota.
Shirley testified before House lawmakers in January during a hearing investigating the state's fraud scandals.
Shirley's Monday response to Newsom's office has received over 190,000 likes, 20,000 reposts and reactions from some high-profile X users.
The online exchange with Newsom's office came shortly after Shirley posted a video on his YouTube page titled, "I Investigated California's Billion Dollar Fraud Crisis."
On X, where the video was shared on Monday, Shirley alleged the fraud he discovered in California was larger than in Minnesota.
"We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences," the post said. "Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP."
Shirley went on to speak out about the fraud he discovered in the post, "We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians. It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis."
Shirley did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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Nick Shirley strikes again!
Where is the msm?
looking for voter fraud in Texas, /s
The topic is daycare fraud. You may be on the wrong article.
Nick Shirley is exactly why teenagers should not get cell phones until they are 18 years old, maybe not until they have two years driving experience.
He is the center of attention and in his own world of self importance with "followers" online.
That's not what the title of the article says. It's about Shirley's inventions and Newsome's behavior.
Oh they don't care if they are off topic. It's all about the narrative and deflecting.
Question (you) .Where is the msm?
Answer (Me) looking for voter fraud in Texas, /s
You are the seeder, do you see how that works?
I accept your expertise on the subject. /s
God forbid we identify fraud.
We should identify fraud, we shouldn't entertain the fraudsters who claim to have found it for ragebait clicks.
The number of arrests would seem to make this accusation look a bit silly.
Mmmmm,
Lets exam the focus in MN. 56 convictions of American citizens, who happen to be Somalians, continues to be beaten like a dead horse by Nick Shirley and others,
in spite of 48 of those convictions being accomplished under the Biden Administration long before Nick Shirley showed up with his camera's. A lot of this includes Covid relief fraud.
Medical fraud (medicare & medicaid) are white collar crimes usually committed by doctors and pharmacist's.
Biggest health care fraud crackdown in U.S. history targets $14.6B in alleged scams | Medical Economics
It's "so bad now" Oz is even going after Florida, a red state.
Well funded, rich healthcare networks owned overwhelmingly by non immigrant, non minority health care professionals who overbill for overlapping or already included services and they get away with whatever they can.
A $60 Billion Problem: Annual Medicare Losses Due to Fraud and Abuse - Miller Shah
Who is this woman, what has she done and when did she do it. I suspect its that chick that ran the COVID lunch program in MN. If so then Shirley had nothing to do with uncovering her fraud.
I'm not aware of any arrests that can be attributed directly to Nick Shirley. Please enlighten the rest of us.
How much fraud has Nick Shirley actually exposed? Shirley has made wild assed guesses to drive social media engagement. Trump Republicans have used Shirley's celebrity press credentials to make even wilder wild assed guesses. But where is the verified accounting?
Trump Republicans are once again boasting about a buffet of condiments without offering any beef.
Depends very much on who you ask.
It's almost surely not zero.
It will come with the report on the official investigation, which should take several months.
Enough to get 98 people arrested.
Breaking: DOJ announces 98 total arrests in Minnesota fraud case - 85 of 'Somali descent'
Minnesota's prosecutions has shown $300-$500 million in fraud; so it is not zero. Most of these fraud cases are related to COVID relief funds.
The Trump administration basically encouraged fraud by injecting massive amounts of COVID relief with lax Federal administrative oversight of self certification and waivers. Trump wanted to quickly boost economic numbers prior to the 2020 election. Oversight would have slowed and added costs to distribution of relief funds. Trump's fast & loose injection of COVID relief made fraud highly likely.
Arrests are not convictions. At most, the amount of fraud attributed to these 98 individuals is in the range of $300-$500 million. And the fraud is related to COVID relief funds that Trump deployed based upon self-certification, unverified wavers, and virtually no Federal oversight. That leaves ~$8.5 billion unaccounted for.
There was a lot of Covid money dedicated toward childcare.
I don't know if you remember, but we were in a state of national emergency then. Over a million Americans died. People couldn't work. School buildings were closed.
For many kids, including many that I coached, school was their primary nutrition source. When they couldn't go to school, they went hungry. So a lot of programs were fast tracked to deal with the emergency. Much like how you don't take time to audit your water bill while the firemen are keeping your house from burning.
The question should be "why is this still going on after all this time?"
American greed? We live in a for-profit society that worships its billionaires and millionaires.
Investigations cost money and man hours. This Administration has laid off or redirected the IRS and DOJ/ FBO investigators.
Imagine the fuzzy warm feeling of a job well done convicting some pirate
only to have this POTUS issue a pardon? To date in 2025 &2026 over a billion in restitution and fines wiped away by a Presidential Pardon of his
cronies and fellow pirates.
Which shouldn't explain dereliction of oversight responsibilities.
We worship attention, and by extension those who garner it. The vast majority of millionaires are anonymous. Nobody cares about those people.
The question is why are all the "emergency" funds still flowing long after the emergency is over?
Whole sections of the DOJ have been shuttered, fired or reassigned. White collar crime is no longer a priority there or at the FBI. DOGE laid off 300,000 women and minorities to "eliminate DEI". Many of those people are being paid Admin leave while their cases wind through court and the investigations of real issues slow down.
Trump does.
Emergencies created by EO, never seem to be shut down by EO.
Democrats publicly embracing and defending fraud is not where I thought we'd be, but here we are.
How do you explain Dave Gentile and Donald Trump? Are they also Democrats?
Trump commutes $1.6 billion fraudster's prison sentence just days into seven year term
Well, you heard Walz, we don't want to be Islamophobic. Let's just move on.
Walz and his ilk are the living embodiment of the Norm MacDonald joke about being really worried about the Islamophobia if Muslim terrorists kill millions of Americans with a nuke.
We've had Islamic terrorist attack after Islamic terrorist attack and they only worry about a backlash that never happens.
Shirley you're not serious!
This guy is a joke. He got called out by Newsom and his response was like a little whiny bitch baby, "Whaaaah! "You do realize I'm trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right?". No, you're a fucking moron grifting rightwing morons for likes and views to boost your finances. It is pretty funny though that anyone listens to this tired turd.
And where is the evidence of all this fraud in CA he has supposed to have uncovered?
LOL.
[✘] This guy has exposed more fraud with an iPhone than the left wing bloggers have with all their "resources".
You mean like virtually every left wing mouthpiece that steps up to a microphone?
He's a kid with a phone who discovered some as yet undetermined level of obvious fraud.
The correct response from an elected official with oversight of that program is "We'll assign an investigator immediately. Please save all of your information. What's the best way to contact you?"
But no, instead the governor's office thought "let's behave like brainless partisan fucktards because, our followers use their political views as their religion any suggestion of any error ever is a direct assault on the Faith."
This guy and his followers seem to be under the impression that states like California and Minnesota (i.e. “blue states”) don’t investigate and prosecute fraud. But they do.
Sure...
Fraud happens in both red and blue States because the scammers don't give a fuck about politics, they only care about opportunity, and all States have some programs that scammers will likely consider an opportunity for fraud.
Why do you defend fraud?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
The question you ask is a ridiculous one, just like mine, because I did no such thing.
When did they prosecute fraud?
Yea, they investigate it to get their cut.
Especially since Covid, I believe there were 48 convictions for fed fraud in MN during the Biden dministration.
Butt Trump! and Shirley !
Can we do more? Of course. We can always do more. But this fake hysteria over fraud is like saying that because murder or other crimes still exist, no one cares or is trying to stop it.
I think the impression is more along the lines of "their bleeding hearts cause them not to suspect things they obviously should and they care much more about preserving their white savior identity than they do any number of dollars going missing".
There is undoubtedly also the impression (valid or not) that if these were white Christian daycares, shit would have been caught a long time ago.
The impression doesn’t come from nothing. It’s intentional and manufactured. So much of it is disingenuous or straight up deceitful. I think last week, we had a seed here about hospice fraud in California. And the whole theme was that California either didn’t care or encouraged the fraud. The whole story was copied into the seed except for the bit about the people California had been prosecuting.
So, the Right is leaning very heavily into the lie that blue states are encouraging and/or ignoring fraud and waste.