Minnesota, particularly the Minneapolis area, has been at the center of several high-profile fraud cases involving federal and state social service programs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Estimates of total fraud across related schemes vary, but official figures point to at least $250-300 million in the flagship case, with broader probes suggesting up to $1 billion or more in combined losses from multiple programs like child nutrition, Medicaid, and autism services.

Tim Walz's administration has been heavily criticized for failing to prevent the fraud, with whistleblowers alleging that state officials knew about red flags as early as 2020 but retaliated against those who raised concerns.

Ilhan Omar received campaign donations from individuals later implicated in the fraud, held her 2018 victory party at a restaurant owned by a convicted fraudster, and featured in ads for related nonprofits. Whistleblowers allege she and other officials looked the other way.

BREAKING: U.S. District Attorney admits Minnesota Somali fraud has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly the entire GDP of Somalia.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 28, 2025

CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME

The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 28, 2025

UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

PAC-10-BEAR said:

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

Big C said:

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

BearlySane88 said:

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

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I don't know for sure, but I got the impression Minnesota was being singled out to take a shot at Walz. Isn't there crap like this going on in most states?

JD Vance is super-bright and very articulate. I have been following his career closely. I have even been to -- and know people in -- Middletown, Ohio. He kind of scares me the way he morphed himself into a Trump acolyte to boost his career. What does he really think about things? Maybe we will find out in three years.

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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We shouldn’t let the bad actions of 259,553 Somalis ruin it for the other 30.

— MILO (@Nero) December 30, 2025

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

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I don't know for sure, but I got the impression Minnesota was being singled out to take a shot at Walz. Isn't there crap like this going on in most states?

JD Vance is super-bright and very articulate. I have been following his career closely. I have even been to -- and know people in -- Middletown, Ohio. He kind of scares me the way he morphed himself into a Trump acolyte to boost his career. What does he really think about things? Maybe we will find out in three years.

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Any Democrat should be very nervous going up against Vance in a debate situation. He's very good in those and very good in interviews where the interviewer is almost always hostile. Democrats are never good in those situations because the media always fawns over them and never asks them tough questions.

But Vance is scary in that I don't think anyone truly knows what he actually believes in. I think he'll happily change a stance for the highest bidder and he's more competent than Trump, who fails to do more damage than he would otherwise because his follow-through is rather lax.

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

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I don't know for sure, but I got the impression Minnesota was being singled out to take a shot at Walz. Isn't there crap like this going on in most states?

JD Vance is super-bright and very articulate. I have been following his career closely. I have even been to -- and know people in -- Middletown, Ohio. He kind of scares me the way he morphed himself into a Trump acolyte to boost his career. What does he really think about things? Maybe we will find out in three years.

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I think more so Minnesota is being singled out because of immigrants, legal and illegal, abusing the system so openly. Some are gonna label that racist but I'd feel the same way if a bunch of Irish and Scottish immigrants were blatantly abusing our welfare systems. The fact that Walz is the governor may have brought it to light but, for me at least, it's not because of Walz that I care.

JD is a phenomenal orator and he's incredibly smart. He's also funny. Now that may be subjective, I'm sure most on the left don't find him humorous but they would if he was a Dem. If JD isn't the Republican candidate next election, I'll be surprised.

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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Such an underrated movie

Vance is a product of the tech bros/ catholic post liberal industrial complex. More dangerous than Trump

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

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I don't know for sure, but I got the impression Minnesota was being singled out to take a shot at Walz. Isn't there crap like this going on in most states?

JD Vance is super-bright and very articulate. I have been following his career closely. I have even been to -- and know people in -- Middletown, Ohio. He kind of scares me the way he morphed himself into a Trump acolyte to boost his career. What does he really think about things? Maybe we will find out in three years.

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But Tim Walz wasn't targeted by the Trump administration. The Minnesota fraud story went viral due to a single independent journalist, Nick Shirely, with an X account, who visited a daycare center in Minnesota with no children.

Nick Shirley goes to a daycare center receiving ($1.9M) dollars in the middle of the day... there's no one there... the place is licensed for children, and there's no windows.

🚨 This is blatant fraud, the Govt is complicit in this

Tim Walz said he's responsible.. Charge him pic.twitter.com/BFhZqoZxF3

— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) December 24, 2025

Quality Learing Center

If you have read or seen Hillbilly Elegy there's reason to believe his America First credentials are legit.

Minus serving in the Marine Corp his life has a lot of parallels to my own, and I'm drawn to him because of it.

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UPDATE: Governor Walz's office line has been removed from Minnesota’s “Sweet Angel Child Care” business listing, but no new phone number was provided.

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) December 29, 2025

OMG, this is real.

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You people are still after Walz as if he were still some kind of threat. The dude's ascendancy was over after JD Vance got the best of him in the VP debate last year. Heck, I had a man crush on Walz until he totally blew that one question. Now, I can only remember who he is when you keep bringing him up

If I were you, I'd focus my attentions elsewhere. You're welcome.

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So we should just ignore the fraud because Walz' political career is dead?

But you're right, JD crushed him

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I don't know for sure, but I got the impression Minnesota was being singled out to take a shot at Walz. Isn't there crap like this going on in most states?

JD Vance is super-bright and very articulate. I have been following his career closely. I have even been to -- and know people in -- Middletown, Ohio. He kind of scares me the way he morphed himself into a Trump acolyte to boost his career. What does he really think about things? Maybe we will find out in three years.

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I think more so Minnesota is being singled out because of immigrants, legal and illegal, abusing the system so openly. Some are gonna label that racist but I'd feel the same way if a bunch of Irish and Scottish immigrants were blatantly abusing our welfare systems. The fact that Walz is the governor may have brought it to light but, for me at least, it's not because of Walz that I care.

JD is a phenomenal orator and he's incredibly smart. He's also funny. Now that may be subjective, I'm sure most on the left don't find him humorous but they would if he was a Dem. If JD isn't the Republican candidate next election, I'll be surprised.

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Vance is a strong orator, but I'm not convinced he's incredibly smart.

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Everyone who gets into YLS is incredibly smart, and accomplished. Small class, so they pick and choose.

Vance was a DEI choice for minority hillbilly Marines

🇺🇸 $18 BILLION GONE: MINNESOTA SOCIAL PROGRAMS LOOTED AT “INDUSTRIAL SCALE”

6 more people have been charged in what’s turning into one of the most outrageous public fund heists in the U.S.

“Not a handful of bad actors… industrial scale fraud,” said Joe Thompson, First… pic.twitter.com/B9HswN2TcE

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 28, 2025

"Not a handful of bad actors… industrial scale fraud."

This isn’t a left vs right issue.

Fraud is fraud.

Have you noticed the MSM and the left are trying to make it political and a racial issue?

People’s true nature is showing, I hope you all are learing something from this

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 30, 2025

I regard all these major scandals- Minnesota, Epstein, Russia- as hysterical products of tribal Twitter make believe. I am rarely disappointed

Imagine how bad the fraud would’ve been if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz had won 2024.

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeaceful) December 30, 2025

pic.twitter.com/23WscX0gml

— Layden Robinson (@LaydenRobinson) December 31, 2025

Tribal Twitter is the media now.

I am sad. We have to work today because we didn't open a Minnesota daycare.

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I am sad. We have to work today because we didn't open a Minnesota daycare.

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You should also be mad because your federal taxes were going to them.

Lots of people here are dumb enough to believe that if Nick Shirley shows up with a crew of guys that childcare centers should just open their doors to them. If my kid was at a childcare center that opened their doors for an unknown group of guys I'd pull my kids immediately and maybe contact authorities.

But part of the way white supremacy works is the belief that all poc have to obey all white people. Now that Nick Shirley has been proven to be a fool will the magats here apologize for their bigotry and false accusations? Not likely.

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Lots of people here are dumb enough to believe that if Nick Shirley shows up with a crew of guys that childcare centers should just open their doors to them. If my kid was at a childcare center that opened their doors for an unknown group of guys I'd pull my kids immediately and maybe contact authorities.

But part of the way white supremacy works is the belief that all poc have to obey all white people. Now that Nick Shirley has been proven to be a fool will the magats here apologize for their bigotry and false accusations? Not likely.

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Wow, somebody finally decided to blame white supremacy. It took long enough.

On this Minnesota daycare fraud thing . . . correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there already several cases being prosecuted before the right-wing YouTubers showed up with their cameras? (Yes, even when Joe Biden was president.)

It's a real issue but the focus on it feels manufactured to me.

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Lots of people here are dumb enough to believe that if Nick Shirley shows up with a crew of guys that childcare centers should just open their doors to them. If my kid was at a childcare center that opened their doors for an unknown group of guys I'd pull my kids immediately and maybe contact authorities.

But part of the way white supremacy works is the belief that all poc have to obey all white people. Now that Nick Shirley has been proven to be a fool will the magats here apologize for their bigotry and false accusations? Not likely.

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Wow, somebody finally decided to blame white supremacy. It took long enough.

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Taking the cue from Walz. Such a lazy take to blame this on racism and white supremacy

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On this Minnesota daycare fraud thing . . . correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there already several cases being prosecuted

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Yes but imo the scale of the issue wasn't being addressed. Now it is.