Misspelled Minnesota day care closed last week, state claims — on same day owners told The Post it’s up and running
By: Steven Vago (New York Post)
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The misspelled day care at the center of viral outrage over the Somali community's multibillion-dollar fraud scandal shut down last week, the head of Minnesota's child services department claimed Monday — at the same time that the owners of the facility put on a dog and pony show for The Post to demonstrate that it was really a working day care and not a front.
Tikki Brown, commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Children, Youth and Families, told reporters that her staff found no evidence of fraud at any of the day cares highlighted by YouTuber Nick Shirley.
She stated that the Quality "Learing" Center had closed.
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Apparently the owners of the site — which has gotten up to $4 million in taxpayer funds and racked up dozens of inspection violations — didn't get the memo.
At least 20 kids were seen entering the Quality "Learing" Center Monday afternoon after being bused in. One employee shouted down The Post's attempt to ask questions: "Don't f-king come to this area. Get the f-k out of here," he said.
The day care says it is open Monday through Thursday from 2 to 10 p.m., and the owner's son Ibrahim Ali showed up Monday to claim all the allegations were a big misunderstanding.
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"Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, 'Hey, they're not working'?" Ali argued to The Post.
But a local resident said the activity at Quality Learning Center was highly unusual.
"We've never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed," the neighbor said.
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The unfortunate typo on the center's exterior signage, which the owner blamed on a graphic design snafu, became an instant meme, was finally fixed Tuesday morning to include the proper spelling.
After Brown's comments, the Minnesota child services department later sent around a correction noting Quality Learing Center had initially notified state regulators it was closing but ultimately decided to stay open.
It wouldn't be the first time that a day care connected to the Somali community conjured up kids for the cameras.
A shocking video unearthed in a 2018 state fraud case showed Somali parents in Minnesota dropping children off at a day care, checking them in and then leaving with them moments later.
Investigators said the ruse was so that providers could bill the state for full days of care for children who didn't actually attend.
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The alleged phony day care centers also gave kickbacks to parents involved.
Another video obtained by Fox 9 shows a man handing an envelope to a parent with an alleged kickback payment for participating in the scheme.
Minneapolis' child care facilities have come under scrutiny amid an unfurling scandal involving the North Star State's taxpayer-funded social services, including day cares, in which operators have allegedly lied about steering millions of dollars in government funds to needy people — money that was never delivered.
Dozens of people — the vast majority Somali immigrants — have been arrested in the fraud scheme, of which $1 billion has been found to be misappropriated so far, including $300 million tied to bogus food handouts, $220 million involving fake autism programs and $302 million tied to housing subsidies that never reached their intended recipients.
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Brown did not respond to a message from The Post seeking comment Tuesday.
Minnesota Rep. Elliot Engen, who is running for state auditor, told The Post the fraud already uncovered — and the billions more being investigated — could only be the tip of the iceberg, claiming the $9 billion figure cited by Assistant US Attorney Joe Thompson only accounts for the last two years.
"We can assume this has been going on for decades. Minnesotans should be furious about this. Americans should be furious about this because not only have their politicians failed them, they went a step farther. This wasn't an accident. They were engaged in this themselves."
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The state saying the facility was PERMENANTLY CLOSED isn't a "misunderstanding".
Imagine the nerve of Tikki Brown, (really looking like a DEI hire) "commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Children, Youth and Families," actually pushing back against something that has been under investigation long before a citizen Journalist went out and did what the media refused to do.
This story is not going away. It is only going to get bigger!
It's getting bigger in that there are more very similar fraud cases being exposed in other states.
Oh yes, they made it so damn easy to get the money, especially when the Biden administration was pushing money out the door after he lost the election.
You and I both know there are some that will have one hell of a tantrum that you mentioned those 2 things.
What leads you to that speculation?
DEI, incompetent or on the take.
Could be all three but I can guarantee at least two of them.
They need to coordinate the lies better.
Fat chance of that happening. They rely on the ignorance of their lemmings.
Rest assured some rogue district judge will order to Trump HHS to continue payments to Minnesota because...or something.
That brings their jurisdiction into question...again.
The fraud issues aren't receiving much attention in the local southeast Minnesota news. (And this was Trump country.) Whenever anything is mentioned in the news, attention is focused on Tim Walz and not on the Somali enclave in Eden Prairie. I wonder how Ilhan Omar has dodged the spotlight?
Stronger Teflon coatings on her back?
The things you would need to prove fraud all stolen from a daycare center yesterday. Shocking....
IRS records and other legal documents aren't housed there to get "stolen".
No doubt if there is any cameras on the property, they mysteriously broke that night or disappeared also.
Working cameras? That's funny.
Now suddenly there was a "break in" at the Learing Center
I’m not a criminal, but if i was, daycare documents would be at the top of my list to steal. /S/.
lol …. You can’t make shit like this up and yet, it’s happening.
FUBAR
This is really hitting close to home for progressives. Politico's legal analyst says says Somalis can shoot people for asking questions and cites stand your ground laws as justification .
Such a perfect leftwing response. Ignorance piled upon violence by one of their supposed legal experts.
Not really any different than those legal "experts" we see here.
Interestingly, you're the one who regularly holds yourself out as a legal "expert", frequently opining as to what juries would do, what lawyers should know... In fact, you probably express more legal opinions than anyone on here. Review your comment history.
Show where I stated I was a legal ‘expert’. Just because I tend to show more common sense than others here who claim to be experts in whatever subject they are talking about at any given instant does not make me an expert.
No jury would hold up your argument
Alot of progressives believe in the cult of the expert as a way to relieve themselves of any responsibility to think critically.
Why should I believe all the videos of Biden acting just like every other senile old man I've met when the credentialed journalist at ABC tells me he's sharp as a tack?
Thank you for proving my point.
It seems like the new leftist cult of ChatGtp or Google Ai or whatever AI they want to use is the new ‘expert’, as long as it confirms their biases.
‘Thank you for proving my point.’
Maybe the one only in your mind
I notice that there has been nothing posted reflecting where you claimed to be a "legal expert". I guess it was in the conversations within their heads.
‘I guess it was in the conversations within their heads.’
Those conversations seem to happen more and more on here.
And we've both seen what happens when you question those "conversations".
I never knew you could taunt an imaginary conversation.
Happens all the time...
A perfectly naive comment. Of course a Trump supporter will dismiss AI since these tools are excellent fact checkers (with supporting links) and they routinely expose where Trump supporter nonsense is wrong.
A very good practice, especially for Trump supporters, is to have ChatGPT (or any AI) fact-check their claims before posting them on a forum.
Imagine if that had been available to Biden supporters?.....
Chatgpt seems very authoritative unless you actually know anything about the topic you are inquiring about. I saw these types of prompts floating around and I asked Chatgpt to name 10 ultra obscure Chicago White Sox. It responded with factual errors. I prompted it to double check the years the player played with the Sox because it made numerous mistakes. This is the revised list, which contained one fix but repeated many of the same mistakes:
✅ 20 Accurate, Obscure 1980s White Sox Players (With Correct Years)
Marc Hill – C (1977–1979)
Not technically 80s, but he lingered in memory because he was on ’79 and gone by spring ’80. Keeping only if you want true obscurity.
Kevin Hickey – LHP (1981–1983)
Guy Hoffman – LHP (1984–1987)
Dave Schmidt – RHP (1985–1986)
Mike Squires – 1B/LF (1975–1985)
Lamar Hoyt – RHP (1979–1984)
Juan Agosto – LHP (1980–1983)
Thad Bosley – OF (1981–1982)
Leo Sutherland – OF (1980–1981)
Even after being prompted to double check it's work, it's wrong on at least five player's tenure. These are the most basic facts imaginable and CHATGPT is wrong. Putting aside that Lamar Hoyt won the Cy Young award with the White Sox and cannot be called "obscure" in an meaningful sense of the word, it completely hallucinates facts about Marc Hill.
Per Chatgpt:
marc Hill – C (1977–1979)
Not technically 80s, but he lingered in memory because he was on ’79 and gone by spring ’80. Keeping only if you want true obscurity
The reality ? He was acquired in 1981 and remained a White Sox until 1986.
If you know a topic well, you can see just how misguided it can be on the most basic of facts.
Of course, you provide a prompt that asks for precise enumeration in an obscure historical domain and then generalize to pretend that most of the time it is errant.
Fact-checking (as is often done here) deals with clear, specific claims that can be verified. Further, when fact-checking, you can ask ChatGPT to deliver supporting links that you can verify. ChatGPT is generally accurate, especially when you know how to craft clear prompts.
But if someone routinely is fact-checked by AI and found to be wrong, of course that person will engage in sophistry to make it seem as though ChatGPT is "misguided on the most basic of facts".
Of course, Sean. You find published prompts that have known to fail and try to argue that this is the norm for ChatGPT.
When you are next fact-checked by ChatGPT and shown to be wrong, you have the option to try to show that ChatGPT is wrong. Links are often provided for you to verify.
They would have been better armed to deal with Trump supporters repeating Trump's bullshit. Plus they could have ChatGPT test their understanding (fact check themselves) before making an errant post.
That's literally the point of fact checking. Literally.
When you are next fact-checked by ChatGPT and shown to be wrong
I'm sure there will be a first time, though I won't hold my breath.
I will make sure to point it out to you.
So you totally ignored the point I made and have gone back to the premise that because AIs like ChatGPT do not excel at checking details in an obscure domain (that means an area where the knowledge is typically held in a database and not a common topic of discourse) this means that AIs are generally wrong on fact-checking.
Do some more research ... learn more about how ChatGPT works.
Standard wuss tactics engaged by interlocuters' without a valid point.
AI is not perfect, and quite often needs to be corrected. Indeed, there is this disclaimer at the bottom of the page in ChatGPT:
So AI (you know, Artificial Intelligence) is not a brain that one can run to and get fast facts on everything, but should be considered more of a research assistant with whom one can discuss their findings and lead them and oneself to the proper conclusions, ie., the ones that are substantiated by the most and best data available.
Happy New Year, TiG!
This particular case would have been easy enough to tear down since your comment at 8 was over-the-top preposterous and was not even supported by the linked article, but since you have an obvious dislike for being proven wrong by AI...
Per ChatGPT:
Raise and Drink from the Cup of Kindness.
Happy 2026, Thomas!
Yeah, one can attempt to discredit a tool that makes it more difficult for one to engage in partisan bullshit, or one can learn how to use the tool properly.
Lol. What a perfect example of dishonest factchecking.
It doesn't ,in fact, contradict anything I wrote. It just pushes lies and a series of strawmen to knock down. FFS sake use common sense. I called the analysis ignorance. How do you imagine proving that it was incredibly ignorant disproves what I wrote?
h e Fox article concerns a Politico media reporter
Josh Gerstein, per Politico, is POLITICO’s Senior Legal Affairs Reporter. So chatgpt starts out with a lie. You can't make it up.
ma de an ill-considered, hypothetical remark on social media about how self-defense laws could be invoked
So what? Of course it was ill considered, stupid and inaccurate. That's the entire reason I and others pointed it out. The point is that he said what I, and Fox, said he did. Strange way to prove me wrong by restating the points I made. Imagine think this restatement is in tension with what I wrote.
The remark was not limited to Somalis,
So Somalis aren't people? That would be the only way what I wrote could be factually incorrect.
nor did it assert a right to shoot people “for asking questions.”
That's exactly what it implied. It claimed a conflict exists exists between stand your ground laws and the reporting that is being done on the fraudulent day care centers, which consisted of knocking on doors and asking questions. The whole point of the tweet is argue that stand your ground laws justify shooting reporters for the Nick Shirley type reporting.
nnesota does not have a “stand-your-ground” statute in the way implied.
How do you imaging that Chatgpt proving That Politico's Legal Affairs reporter is an idiot about the law is a "fact check" contradicting what I wrote?
D escribing a law is not the same as endorsing violence
Again, so what? Can you fact check a claim I actually made and not a strawman?
A single poorly phrased comment — immediately criticized — is being generalized into “the left supports violence,” and then further racialized. That leap is not supported by the evidence presented in the article itself.¹\
Lol. The only evidence of "immediate criticism" your links provide come from FOXNEWS. Now that's funny.
is being generalized into “the left supports violence,” and then further racialized. That leap is not supported by the evidence presented in the article itself.¹\
Even more dishonesty. CHATGPT attacks the article on a topic it was not cited for on a topic it didn't even address. It's laughable.
What Gerstein said:
What you said:
If the criticism is that he misunderstood or mischaracterized self-defense law, fine. But upgrading that into he said, "Somalis can shoot people for asking questions,” is an inference you’re adding and not something established by the text. You go farther and claim that it is all from the left with not as much as a glance in the mirror to see whose lips are moving.
Where did the reference to Somalis come from? (Looks around) From you.
Why, when prosecuting fraud which may be perpetrated by anyone do you single out the Somalis? I certainly hope that the DOJ is not so narrowly focused.
So one must ask-
Why the references to progressives? (Looks around) Ohh. That came from you.
Leftwing? You. Again.
Ignorance? You’re assigning it.
Violence? You’re invoking it.
Ethnic framing? You supplied it.
Yep. If there is an argument to be made up, people will know right where to go.
I think it depends on WHOSE imaginary conversation one would be calling out.