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Daycare & Autism Centers Fraud
- Numerous daycare centers and autism facilities have received millions in state funding but have no children enrolled.
- Example: A daycare shut down for violations reopened under a new name and continued receiving funds.
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Home Healthcare Fraud
- A single building allegedly housed 14 Somali-owned healthcare companies, all billing the state for services that were never provided.
- FBI raids and investigations are mentioned as evidence of the scale of fraud.
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Political Corruption
- Minnesota politicians, including Governor Tim Walz and other Minneapolis officials, have enabled fraud for political gain.
- Funds were used to buy votes and maintain power, particularly by appealing to immigrant communities.
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Financial Impact
- Minnesota swung from an $18 billion surplus to a $6 billion deficit in two years, attributing much of this to fraud.
- Estimates fraud in Minnesota alone exceeds $9 billion, with nationwide entitlement fraud possibly
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson
with you. And these are the stories that you may
have missed that we talked about this week. It all
deals with fraud in Minnesota. First up, Nick Shirley goes
to the autism centers to expose the massive fraud at
these daycare centers as well.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What does this mean? We'll explain it all to you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Also, when Elon Musk was in charge of DOGE, he
had a major warning that this is exactly what we
are going to find. He talked about in an interview
with the Center and I and we're going to play
it back for you. And finally, the big question everyone's asking,
will people actually be arrested go to prison? It's the
weekend Review and it starts right now. I'm not crazy
(00:45):
to say this, And if you disagree with me, please
tell me why.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
If you are a person.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That is in a position of power as an ELECTI official,
you see this video, wouldn't the first thing you would
do was to get together with your staff that then
we get together with the law enforcement and then immediately
send out teams like Monday morning to go to all
these places and investigate immediately.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That they don't want to shut him down. They want
to they want to cover it up. They want to
say no, no, it wasn't us, wasn't us. We're not responsible.
And this is the scale. It is so brazen they
can't deny it. And by the way, all right to
all the corporate reporters who've done no journalism for years
except attacking Donald Trump for everything he says and does.
(01:27):
Here's the next place the story is going. Here's where
the puck is going. Yeah, how much of that money
has gone directly into the campaign coffers of the elected Democrats?
How much is Tim Wallace?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's a great point.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How much of the US senators made, how much of
the members of the House made, How much has the
mayor made? How much has the city council made? How
many millions of dollars were they buying political protection in
order to enable them to steal billions? All right, I
want to play one more segment. Yeah, and this is
a This is a segment where Nick Shirley tries to
(02:00):
go to another daycare center. Woman answers the door. He
asks if he can sign up his son Joey that
she says no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
we don't take children here. And then he says, all right,
let's branch out. We've struck out at every daycare center
and these are all within a couple blocks of each other,
all of these fake storefronts. He said, let's go to
(02:21):
an autism center. And we've seen an explosion of autism centers.
And I want you to watch and listen to what
happens when he goes to an autism center that once
again is being paid millions of dollars by the taxpayers
of Minnesota. Give a listen, give a watch.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, Joey would not be accepted to that daycare. Always
go home with Joey's still looking for daycare.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And because little Joey couldn't get into a daycare, we
went to an autism center. As they have been popping
up everywhere as a rise of autism has occurred here
in Minnesota because of the government funds that they're receiving.
I tried to check my son Joey into an autism center.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
When going to a lot of these daycare centers, We're
trying to find a spot for our little boy Joey.
But we thought maybe we could check them in the
autism center because now the daycare centers are open. Yeah,
And how many kids you guys have at this autism center?
I can't give you a burn, like more than five probably,
(03:19):
so you don't really know. What do you guys think about,
like the fraud that's been labeled on the autism centers here?
What do you guys do think about the fraud? Or
how come the autism centers are popping up? I can't
My name is that Nick. We're doing a little documentary
trying to find little Joey a spot to put himself
in one of these centers here because there's the fraud. Yeah,
(03:41):
because we want to make sure we're going to legit
business if we're gonna bring our little boy Joey here.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
This is not a dull spot. M. Well, that's our
number on you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
This is you tell what you guys scooze. Okay, thank you.
So once again, little Joey he can't even go to
daycare and now they won't even accept him audism.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And again no kids couldn't tell you how many kids
they served.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
After being able to provide no evidence of them actually
being an autism center in a place where a child
could go. They shut the door and we headed to
the next fraudulent daycare center that was just around the corner.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
We're on to the next location. We're still trying to
find a little Joey a place to go to get
some daycare.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
So where we're going now is a place called super
Kids Daycare Center. Interestingly, this daycare center was shut down
when it was called Creative Mind's Daycare and it had
received two point four or five million dollars this fiscal
year twenty twenty five. They had the shutdown because there
(04:42):
were so many violations, and they went and they just
reopened under a new license and they renamed the center
super Kids Daycare Center, LLC.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So they got shut down then started another one literally
the next day Creative Mind's Daycare. Two point four or
five million dollars got set to this daycare center.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
We have.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Empty parking lot. We do have a bus here. This
is different. We'll see if we see anybody.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I knocked on the door. Absolutely nobody was inside, and
once again no children could be heard anywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So David, once again another child daycare center. We have
a bus out here, no one's inside. License for over
fifty kids. No children anywhere, but yet millions of dollars
every single year.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
So the sign says Creative Mind's Daycare. They got in
so much trouble, they had so many violations that they
had to shut down and they reopened the next day
under super Kids Daycare Center. You see thirty eight oh
one Portland. Thirty eight oh one Portland, which is where
we are.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So that's fraud right there alone.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Millions and millions of dollars. And again the kids are missing.
We're the kids.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You'd think if they had the same address that whoever's
inside we're working at the capitol here inside of Minnesota,
would to say, oh, maybe that's a red flag.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
They they just write the check. Human Services, they got
to clean out the whole bunch. They're the ones who
enabled this fraud. How can you not look and say,
wait a minute, this these two are registered at the
same address.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
On top of all the childcare centers. That's just only
a small piece of the fraud. What other fraud of
the committee here in Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So another major piece of the fraud is the home
healthcare industry. Where we're going now is a building that
has fourteen somaly owned home healthcare companies in the same building.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Fourteen of the same healthcare companies in the one.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Building, Fourteen home healthcare companies with different names in the
same building.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
How bad has Tim Waltz managed the budget here inside
of Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
So the last biennium we had an eighteen billion dollars surplus,
this biennium we have a six billion dollar deficit. That's
a twenty four billion dollars swing in one biennium. How
in the world can you burn through twenty four billion
dollars in two years? This is how right here. This
(07:13):
is a huge part of it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And so would you say a lot of that is
fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Absolutely, I would say better than ninety percent of it
is absolute, outright fraud.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
And a large percentage of this fraud is from these
healthcare companies that are charging the state millions of dollars
while they actually aren't providing anything. In fact, the FBI
just did a arraide a few days ago on a
building similar to the one we were about to enter.
Inside of this building, there were fourteen of nearly the
exact same businesses offering the exact same services.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Right here, you have a list of all of the
healthcare companies, loads of them right here. We want healthcare, Yes,
we'd like to speak about getting healthcare here? Why can't
I get health care here? Waters warning you are under
video surveillance, no trespassing security armed. This is the strangest
(08:10):
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
(08:35):
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? I
don't know? No, all right, we will not get any
healthcare here, David. This is one of the stranger places.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I've ever been.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Literally, healthcare every door you go to, yet nobody will
give you a rate. How much money you think has
been funneled through this building?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You're I would say fifty to sixteen millions at least.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And finally we were accepted into one of the daycare
centers and they actually took down information to give.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Us a rate.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
However, when we left We were then met with the police.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
We received a complaint that selling mentioning your description. We're
in this building harassing the individuals to sit here.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh, we're just seeing. We're checking out in the rates
for healthcare because there's fourteen health care companies inside this building.
So okay, what he said.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
He said there's fourteen companies here, and he's trying to
assume because there's Somali providers that everyone in your straudulent.
So he's here with some kind.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Of like propaganda.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
No, we're just checking this is this is a area
that we're allowed to enforce prospassing ordinance. Is there any
other reason that you guys are here.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, we're checking rates. No, we are checking rates. We
asked for rates. Okay, I'm gonna have If you guys
are all good, we're gonna step out that and we
all right, let's see. So all right, we're getting escort
it out right now. The police have arrived. When we're
checking out the I ain't seen what was happening inside
this building. No one would really speak with us. We
did go inside the one daycare center and she actually
(10:05):
did give his rates for the childcare. Much respect to
that lady. What's the problem offs here?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Well, so again we're we've been getting reports from there
now multiple individuals that you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Were harassing individuals who are work here.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
At the end of the day, this is private property
and it's one that people are allowed to ask you
to leave, and it's also in the Minneapolis Police Department
is allowed to enforce trespassing ordinance at this address.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, so as we got escorted out of this building,
the Somali's filmed us as we left and we headed
over to the next build center.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I would encourage everybody go watch.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There's another twenty ten minutes of this video and we'll
put it up on social media. But it is truly
impressive to watch the Somalis there use the police to
kick someone out of their building who is exposing their
fraud by just asking for rates. You're talking, he said,
sixty seventy eighty million running through that building every single
(10:58):
year with no one offering anything, and yet the police
show up not to arrest these people that are just
lynching are tax towers to the American people, But instead
when a twenty two to twenty three year old YouTuber
who's a hero is the guy they're harassing.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So Nick Shirley, in one afternoon he uncovered one hundred
and ten million dollars of fraud, and in fact, during
the video he has a running tally of the fraud
each place that he uncovers. The reason at the end
it speaks volumes that the police showed up and forced
them to leave, not because they were investigating fraud, that
the people in that building were obviously robbing the Minnesota taxpayers. Now, listen,
(11:43):
I don't fault that police officer. He's doing his job.
The problem is his job is decided by the Mayor
of Minneapolis and the City Council of Minneapolis, and they
are all corrupt democrats who are being paid for by
these Somali thieves. And so at the end of the day,
the police knows their jobs is protect the criminals, protect
(12:07):
the thieves, because the thieves are funding the politicians who
are in charge of the city.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You
know this also goes back to saying you and I
talked about several months ago when we had then the
man in charge of DOGE. He was warning us about waste,
fraud and abuse. That was Elon Musk. He actually retweeted
(12:35):
the last couple of days this segment that we had
from him in the DOJ office and the EOB next
to the White House. And I want to play that
for people just to remind you of what he was
talking about of entitlement payments going to people just like
these Somalians and illegals, and how this was one of
the biggest frauds, as he described it happening in the
(12:56):
history of this country. Take a listen to again, this
is Mosk on this show months ago warning about this
exact type of behavior.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
And the single biggest thing that they're that they're worried
about is that dog is going to turn off fraudulent
payments of entitlements. I mean everything from Social Security, medicare, uh,
you know, unemployment, disability, small administ regrustration loans, turn them
(13:26):
off to illegals. This is the tops of the matter. Yeap, okay,
this is this is the this is the thing that
why they really hit my guts, want me to die.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And do you think that's billions?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hundreds of billions?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
What do you think the scale is of.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
That, I think across the country. It's it's in the
it's wealth of one hundred billion, maybe two hundred billion.
So uh, why by using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have
been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal
immigrants and buy voters, and buy voters exactly the basically
(14:05):
bring in a ten twenty million people who are beholden
to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelming
the Democrat as has been demonstrated in California.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is it's an election strategy.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yes, it's power, yes, and it doesn't take much to
turn the swing states blue. I mean offen a Spring
state yet be won by ten twenty thousand votes. Sure,
so the DAMS can bring in two hundred thousand illegals
and over time get them legally legalized, not counting any
cheating that takes place, because there is some cheating, but
even without cheating, if you bake, if you have, if
(14:41):
you bring in illegals that are ten xt the voted
differential in a Spring state, it will no longer be
a swing state, right, and the Dams will win all
the Spring states just a matter of time and America
will be permanent deep blue social state. At the House,
the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court will all
(15:02):
go hardcore. Then they will then further cement that by
bringing even more Aliens so you can't vote your way.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Their objemin is to make it.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
One party socialist state, and it'll be much worse than California,
because least California is mitigated by the fact that someone
can leave California.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You can go to Texas.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah, exactly, so you did go to make everywhere California,
but worse.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You know what's interesting is the way that he described it.
Their center is saying you can't. They'll get to a
point where you can't vote your way out of it.
It's almost like Elon was describing Minneapolis, minneap was Saint Paul,
and now in essence, the entire state is going that
way after its total Somali control locally.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Now, look that that is exactly right. I will say,
by the way that the interview we did with Elon Musk,
it was an hour long interview we did and in
the course of two podcasts, it remains one of my
favorite pods we've ever done. If you didn't listen to
it when it came out. I would encourage you. It
was fascinating.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We got to ask Elon all sorts of questions about
how he built tel Tesla, how he built UH SpaceX,
what are the odds of killer robots killing us all?
What's gonna happen with AI? I mean, it was it
was fun, It was interesting. Elon is a good friend,
and and and that exchange. It was prescient that he predicted.
And it's interesting he said north of one hundred billion nationwide.
(16:23):
We look at Minneapolis and Minnesota where it's already north
of nine billion in just one state. And and and
I think that prediction of a one hundred billion or
more UH is very accurate. You know. I'll also say
on the point about getting you know, Elon talked right there,
we get about getting people locked into welfare and dependency
and making him dependent on the Democrats. You know, there
(16:43):
was a tweet that Bill Ackman that the New York
Investor put out today that I thought was quite insightful.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
He said, quote, even assuming there was no fraud, none
of this makes sense. How is it that we have
been funding billions of dollars of daycare for Somali immigrants
in Minnesota, eighty one percent of which, according to Gemini,
are on welfare. Now get this, Listen to that fact again,
(17:10):
eighty one percent of Somali immigrants are on welfare. Acman continues,
In other words, if mom and dad don't work, why
the need for childcare? Perhaps you could say the welfare
statistics include some subsidies for working parents. But still in
this case, the childcare does not appear to be needed
(17:30):
as the daycare centers are empty. Furthermore, why is federal
funded childcare provided to recent immigrants on welfare versus longstanding
American working families who are not on welfare. How does
this make sense? And the answer is it doesn't. It
doesn't unless the goal is to buy votes. And if
the goal is to buy vote, since it makes perfect
(17:52):
sense and everyone responsible needs to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Senat we're talking about accountability and CEOs. They're held accountable
when they commit major frauds. Bernie Madeoff is one I
mentioned a moment ago as well. Is there a real
chance that we will see government elected officials because of
this fraud actually be arrested and held accountable for the
fact that they're the CEO of the state and they
(18:17):
are the ones that allowed this happen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There were a lot of warning signs.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There were whistleblowers that have come forward saying that they
had taken to the governor and they were actually punished
for being a whistleblower in Minnesota. That's part of this
story that can't be overlooked.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Look, I hope so and I believe there will be accountability.
We've already seen people being prosecuted, the fraudsters themselves. We've
seen DJ and the FBI promising to go higher up
the chain, and I hope and expect that to happen now.
You know, I will say on Twitter, lots of folks
are commenting with our last couple of pods and they're
(18:51):
yelling at me, going, what will Ted do something about it?
And then let's get back to the basic constitution and
the separation of powers. The only federal entity that can
prosecute is the executive branch, that is the Department of Justice,
that is the FBI. They can bring criminal charges. I
serve in the legislature. The legislature cannot prosecute anyone. What
(19:12):
we can do is shine a light. Well, we can do.
This podcast reaches millions of people by shining a light
and calling for accountability. That builds the momentum for then
the executive has to bring the indictments and has to prosecute,
and that we're going to do, and I fully expect
we will also have congressional hearings again to shine a light. Now,
a congressional hearing cannot actually indict anyone and put one
(19:36):
in jail, but it can draw real attention, and it
could uncover evidence that helps helps the executive then prosecute.
They are also political consequences, and I want to play
actually an ad that I saw online. I don't know
who put this together, but it's a satirical ad about
Tim Waltz that gives some of the sense of political
consequences that will happen. That this just came out today.
(20:00):
Give a listen.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Jim Walls doesn't seek out Fraud. Fraud seeks out Tim Walls.
When scammers apply for jobs, they list him as a reference.
Under his watch, Fraud is Minnesota's fastest growing small business.
His biggest export taxpayer money delivered to foreign terrorists. If
Fraud had a frequent flyer program, he would always fly first. Class.
(20:27):
He is Tim Walls the most fraudulent man in America.
Jim Walls doesn't seek.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I love the and I remember the most interesting man
in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's that thing to that with those techys'cies, yeah, which
is such a great like great ad series they did
there for years.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And by the way, Ben, but by the way, by
the way, man, I have to say, I'm also a
fan of bearded latinos with with just you know, with
something to say in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There's something I understand your beard like never before you
were trying to be the most interesting man in the
world of politics.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, now it's full circle.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's a low bar.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean those bar I get it. That's so good.
That's I'm never okay. The connection is solidified now. I
I that ad is hysterical. It's also incredibly accurate.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Look that this is and it's just the beginning. This
is only gonna get worse. As I said, this has
happened in other states. Minnesota is a perfect storm because
you've got the massive Somali community there. But but it
is happening in other states. We are going to see
accountability and and and listen, I'm really glad the Trump
administration DOJ and the FBI is going after that this
(21:40):
but also today HHS, the Trump administration came out with
with with with this announcement. Give a listen.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I'm here with Assistant Secretary Alex Adams. Alex Overseas, the
Administration for Children and Families and Trumpet journalists have made shocking,
incredible allegations of extensive fraud in Minnesota's childcare programs. We
believe the state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake
daycares to siphon millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
My office ACF provides Minnesota one hundred and eighty five
million dollars in childcare funds each year. That money should
be helping nineteen thousand American children, including toddlers and infants.
Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children. Yesterday,
I spoke directly with the director of the Minnesota Childcare
Services Office. She could not tell me with confidence whether
(22:30):
those allegations of fraud are isolated or whether there's fraud
stretching statewide.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Today, we have taken three direct actions against the blatant
fraud that seems to be rampant in Minnesota. First, I
have activated our defend the Spend system for all ACF
childcare payments across America. Starting today, we require a justification,
receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment. Second,
I've just signed and sent a demand letter to Governor Walls.
(22:57):
I required a full three hundred and sixty review of
the centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
And Third, we've launched a dedicated fraud reporting hotline and
email address at childcare dot gov. Whether you're a parent,
a provider, a member of the public, we want to
hear from you. Let me be crystal clear. ACF expects
every state to uphold the highest standards of oversight, monitoring,
and accountability for federal dollars. Minnesota is no exception.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
We're committed to holding bad actors accountable, regardless the rank
of office. Anyone is involved and perpetrating this fraud against
the American people should expect to be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So this is a step in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If you look at the President's response and the administration's response,
I do think the best part is he's using all
of government.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
We're hearing that the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
IRS is getting involved, that the Department in Security, the FBI,
they're working with basically every part of our government to
fight this fraud, this from AJHS. And there are some
that will say, well, this is unfair because they're stopping
the funding and there has to be somebody doing good
work in Minnesota. If you're mad, I would say that
(24:10):
you should be mad at the Democrats for allowing it
to get to the point where they had to stop
the funding going to the state of Minnesota. If you're angry,
you should be angry at Waltz, and you should be
angry at every Democrat that allowed this to continue when
there was massive amounts of warning signs, not for weeks,
not for months, but for literally years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, Ben Jim O'Neil, who just made that announcement, he
is the deputy Secretary of HHS. He's Bobby Kennedy's deputy.
Jim has been a good friend of mine for twenty
five years. Actually Jim was a groomsman at Heidi's in
my wedding, so actually long away married twenty five years ago,
So Jim was a groomsman at our wedding, and he's
a great friend. He's doing a terrific job as deputy
(24:50):
secretary at HHS. But that's the kind of leadership we
see now. It's striking when HHS put this out immediately,
Tim Waltz responded, And and here's what what Tim Waltz
said in response. This is Trump's long game. We've spent
years cracking down on fraudsters. It's a serious issue, but
(25:13):
this has been his plan all along. He's politicizing the
issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. And and this
is this is Saul Alynsky like jiu jitsu, of attacking
the Trump administration for holding him accountable. Look, Governor Waltz,
when you let Somali and fraudsters steal nine billion dollars
(25:37):
from taxpayers, you know who doesn't get that Real Minnesotans
who are not fraudsters, real kids. And that's that's what
the Trump AHHS emphasized right now, is this money is
is made to go to Americans in need and not
to thieves who are supporting Democrats. And and we're gonna
see a whole lot more accountability coming as before.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic. You can go back and down the
podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You may have missed.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If this was a private sector of fraud, there would
already be people in handcuffs.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
There would be people that would be doing purp walks.
It would be wall to wall coverage. But somehow, because
it's the government, it's like the Governor's not even a suspect.
The ag is not even a suspect. It's like, oh, well,
you know, we want to bring in more Somali's. That's
what the governor said a couple of days ago. We
should bring more of them in. How dare you demonize them?
(26:36):
And if there is no accountability, then did they in
fact get away with it? I would argue the answers
jest because ultimately their goal was to get Somalis to
vote for them. This was the payoff. It's pay to
play politics in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You're not wrong? And that needs to be one one
significant part of the investigation, both from journalists and from prosecutors.
There needs to be magnificant investigation into how much of
that money ended up in political coffers of politicians. How
much the reason that the Democrats in Minnesota all look
the other way is they're all getting paid a It's
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a huge voting block. And I want you to watch this.
For those of you who are watching this online, I
want you to see this video of the mayor of
Minneapolis dancing waving a Somali flag if you haven't, but
if you're not watching it online, if you're listening on radio,
we're gonna narrate it. But here, give a look if
you can, and Ben and I will tell you what
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you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I mean, this video is amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You got the mayor of Minneapolis up there on stage
center waving a Somali flag and dancing with a shirt
of the Somali flag on his shirt as well. If
you want to know how we got to where we
are now, this is just proof of it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And I got to say that this mayor manages to
dance in a way that makes Tim Waltz look manly.
That is the most effeminate prancing ass kissing like unbelievably,
He's just dancing and waving a Somali flag. Now, let
me ask you, do you think someone who is desperately
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trying to get the votes of the one hundred thousand
Somalis that Democrats have imported into Minnesota and desperately trying
to get their cash, do you think he has any
interest in investigating and finding out the billions of dollars
they're stealing from the taxpayus. Hell no, Well, and that's
how we got here.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Let's go back to the dancing mayor and talk a
little bit more about the propaganda he puts that on
social media, clearly making it well known where his allegiances
and is not to the American taxpayer.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Well, look, if you're asking how could this happen? How
could it be so brazen? How could you have daycare
centers with no kids? How could you have a care
centers with no playground equipment? How could you have centers
for kids with autism with no kids in them? How
could you have home health care providers that are not
actually providing health care like like the this the raw
brazenness of it. And the answer is the politicians were
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complicit and and and to to understand just how craven
and corrupt they are. I want to go back to
the Minneapolis mayor Jacob Fray and and and or Frey
or fryar or however you say his name.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If you're talking in Somali, you know, I don't know.
It depends on what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Well, I want to play a video that he put out,
and this is him really speaking to America's heartland, speaking
to you, to me, to to all of us, because
he's a mayor of a major American city. So give
a listen to Mayor fry.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Mahga Agowad Jacob fry Dokemagalada, Minneapolis, Daman Shahabka somaliid Kaya
mid Mogadishu, Ghettowayesa Osaso Adabo Kismayo, Wellhanada ah in on
Idene Shigo, Minneapolis.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Wah okay, that's enough. I did hear him say, by.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The way, you and I are officially unelectable in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I just want to be very I did hear him say,
kiss Mayo. And he is saying to his voters, kiss Mayo.
He's telling them to kiss Mayo. He said Mogadishu and
apparently he's running for mayor of Mogadishu, and maybe he
is mayor of Mogadishu. Look, if you're the biggest funder
of Al Shabab, yeah you're you're actually quite a star
in Mogadishu, do you think, Look, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That guy's saying.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And and and that is by design. And by the way,
you might think, well, okay, he's just you know, he's
just trying to appeal to a constituency. I want you
to listen to the Prime Minister of Somalia standing next
il han Omar. Ilhan Omar is the congresswoman who represents
this Somali community. And I want you to listen to
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what the Prime Minister of Somalia says about ilhan Omar.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean, this is I honestly shocking when he's talking
about it's not in the interesting Well, it's somebody else,
all right.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And and and let me let me for our listeners,
you'll be forgiven if you thought that might have been
the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, because because they both
speak Somalian and so you know, it is understandable that
the Prime Minister Somalia sounds just like the Minneapolis mayor.
But but here actually is is what the Somalian Prime
minister's name and it's it's Hassan Ali Kairie, and he
(31:46):
says the following. For for those listening on radio you
don't have the English translations, let me translate what he said. Quote,
the interests of il Han are not of the American people.
The interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people
and Somalia. That's not me saying that. Are you saying that.
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That's the prime Minister of Somalia in Minneapolis, in America
telling presumably Americans, your member of Congress, her interests are
not America. They are Somalians and Somalia. And you want
to know why so many Democrats look the other way
as the Somalian fraudsters were robbing the taxpayers blind. It
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is because they were in on it, they were profiting
from it, they were benefiting from it, and this embodies
level upon level of corruption.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
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Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson
with you. And these are the stories that you may
have missed that we talked about this week. It all
deals with fraud in Minnesota. First up, Nick Shirley goes
to the autism centers to expose the massive fraud at
these daycare centers as well.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What does this mean? We'll explain it all to you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Also, when Elon Musk was in charge of DOGE, he
had a major warning that this is exactly what we
are going to find. He talked about in an interview
with the Center and I and we're going to play
it back for you. And finally, the big question everyone's asking,
will people actually be arrested go to prison? It's the
weekend Review and it starts right now. I'm not crazy
(00:45):
to say this, And if you disagree with me, please
tell me why.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
If you are a person.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
That is in a position of power as an ELECTI official,
you see this video, wouldn't the first thing you would
do was to get together with your staff that then
we get together with the law enforcement and then immediately
send out teams like Monday morning to go to all
these places and investigate immediately.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
That they don't want to shut him down. They want
to they want to cover it up. They want to
say no, no, it wasn't us, wasn't us. We're not responsible.
And this is the scale. It is so brazen they
can't deny it. And by the way, all right to
all the corporate reporters who've done no journalism for years
except attacking Donald Trump for everything he says and does.
(01:27):
Here's the next place the story is going. Here's where
the puck is going. Yeah, how much of that money
has gone directly into the campaign coffers of the elected Democrats?
How much is Tim Wallace?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's a great point.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
How much of the US senators made, how much of
the members of the House made, How much has the
mayor made? How much has the city council made? How
many millions of dollars were they buying political protection in
order to enable them to steal billions? All right, I
want to play one more segment. Yeah, and this is
a This is a segment where Nick Shirley tries to
(02:00):
go to another daycare center. Woman answers the door. He
asks if he can sign up his son Joey that
she says no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
we don't take children here. And then he says, all right,
let's branch out. We've struck out at every daycare center
and these are all within a couple blocks of each other,
all of these fake storefronts. He said, let's go to
(02:21):
an autism center. And we've seen an explosion of autism centers.
And I want you to watch and listen to what
happens when he goes to an autism center that once
again is being paid millions of dollars by the taxpayers
of Minnesota. Give a listen, give a watch.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Well, Joey would not be accepted to that daycare. Always
go home with Joey's still looking for daycare.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And because little Joey couldn't get into a daycare, we
went to an autism center. As they have been popping
up everywhere as a rise of autism has occurred here
in Minnesota because of the government funds that they're receiving.
I tried to check my son Joey into an autism center.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
When going to a lot of these daycare centers, We're
trying to find a spot for our little boy Joey.
But we thought maybe we could check them in the
autism center because now the daycare centers are open. Yeah,
And how many kids you guys have at this autism center?
I can't give you a burn, like more than five probably,
(03:19):
so you don't really know. What do you guys think about,
like the fraud that's been labeled on the autism centers here?
What do you guys do think about the fraud? Or
how come the autism centers are popping up? I can't
My name is that Nick. We're doing a little documentary
trying to find little Joey a spot to put himself
in one of these centers here because there's the fraud. Yeah,
(03:41):
because we want to make sure we're going to legit
business if we're gonna bring our little boy Joey here.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
This is not a dull spot. M. Well, that's our
number on you.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
This is you tell what you guys scooze. Okay, thank you.
So once again, little Joey he can't even go to
daycare and now they won't even accept him audism.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
And again no kids couldn't tell you how many kids
they served.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
After being able to provide no evidence of them actually
being an autism center in a place where a child
could go. They shut the door and we headed to
the next fraudulent daycare center that was just around the corner.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
We're on to the next location. We're still trying to
find a little Joey a place to go to get
some daycare.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
So where we're going now is a place called super
Kids Daycare Center. Interestingly, this daycare center was shut down
when it was called Creative Mind's Daycare and it had
received two point four or five million dollars this fiscal
year twenty twenty five. They had the shutdown because there
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were so many violations, and they went and they just
reopened under a new license and they renamed the center
super Kids Daycare Center, LLC.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So they got shut down then started another one literally
the next day Creative Mind's Daycare. Two point four or
five million dollars got set to this daycare center.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
We have.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Empty parking lot. We do have a bus here. This
is different. We'll see if we see anybody.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
I knocked on the door. Absolutely nobody was inside, and
once again no children could be heard anywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So David, once again another child daycare center. We have
a bus out here, no one's inside. License for over
fifty kids. No children anywhere, but yet millions of dollars
every single year.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
So the sign says Creative Mind's Daycare. They got in
so much trouble, they had so many violations that they
had to shut down and they reopened the next day
under super Kids Daycare Center. You see thirty eight oh
one Portland. Thirty eight oh one Portland, which is where
we are.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So that's fraud right there alone.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Millions and millions of dollars. And again the kids are missing.
We're the kids.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You'd think if they had the same address that whoever's
inside we're working at the capitol here inside of Minnesota,
would to say, oh, maybe that's a red flag.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
They they just write the check. Human Services, they got
to clean out the whole bunch. They're the ones who
enabled this fraud. How can you not look and say,
wait a minute, this these two are registered at the
same address.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
On top of all the childcare centers. That's just only
a small piece of the fraud. What other fraud of
the committee here in Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So another major piece of the fraud is the home
healthcare industry. Where we're going now is a building that
has fourteen somaly owned home healthcare companies in the same building.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Fourteen of the same healthcare companies in the one.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Building, Fourteen home healthcare companies with different names in the
same building.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
How bad has Tim Waltz managed the budget here inside
of Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
So the last biennium we had an eighteen billion dollars surplus,
this biennium we have a six billion dollar deficit. That's
a twenty four billion dollars swing in one biennium. How
in the world can you burn through twenty four billion
dollars in two years? This is how right here. This
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is a huge part of it.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And so would you say a lot of that is
fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Absolutely, I would say better than ninety percent of it
is absolute, outright fraud.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
And a large percentage of this fraud is from these
healthcare companies that are charging the state millions of dollars
while they actually aren't providing anything. In fact, the FBI
just did a arraide a few days ago on a
building similar to the one we were about to enter.
Inside of this building, there were fourteen of nearly the
exact same businesses offering the exact same services.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Right here, you have a list of all of the
healthcare companies, loads of them right here. We want healthcare, Yes,
we'd like to speak about getting healthcare here? Why can't
I get health care here? Waters warning you are under
video surveillance, no trespassing security armed. This is the strangest
(08:10):
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
(08:35):
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? I
don't know? No, all right, we will not get any
healthcare here, David. This is one of the stranger places.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I've ever been.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Literally, healthcare every door you go to, yet nobody will
give you a rate. How much money you think has
been funneled through this building?
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You're I would say fifty to sixteen millions at least.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And finally we were accepted into one of the daycare
centers and they actually took down information to give.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Us a rate.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
However, when we left We were then met with the police.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
We received a complaint that selling mentioning your description. We're
in this building harassing the individuals to sit here.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh, we're just seeing. We're checking out in the rates
for healthcare because there's fourteen health care companies inside this building.
So okay, what he said.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
He said there's fourteen companies here, and he's trying to
assume because there's Somali providers that everyone in your straudulent.
So he's here with some kind.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Of like propaganda.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
No, we're just checking this is this is a area
that we're allowed to enforce prospassing ordinance. Is there any
other reason that you guys are here.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, we're checking rates. No, we are checking rates. We
asked for rates. Okay, I'm gonna have If you guys
are all good, we're gonna step out that and we
all right, let's see. So all right, we're getting escort
it out right now. The police have arrived. When we're
checking out the I ain't seen what was happening inside
this building. No one would really speak with us. We
did go inside the one daycare center and she actually
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did give his rates for the childcare. Much respect to
that lady. What's the problem offs here?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Well, so again we're we've been getting reports from there
now multiple individuals that you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Were harassing individuals who are work here.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
At the end of the day, this is private property
and it's one that people are allowed to ask you
to leave, and it's also in the Minneapolis Police Department
is allowed to enforce trespassing ordinance at this address.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, so as we got escorted out of this building,
the Somali's filmed us as we left and we headed
over to the next build center.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I would encourage everybody go watch.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There's another twenty ten minutes of this video and we'll
put it up on social media. But it is truly
impressive to watch the Somalis there use the police to
kick someone out of their building who is exposing their
fraud by just asking for rates. You're talking, he said,
sixty seventy eighty million running through that building every single
(10:58):
year with no one offering anything, and yet the police
show up not to arrest these people that are just
lynching are tax towers to the American people, But instead
when a twenty two to twenty three year old YouTuber
who's a hero is the guy they're harassing.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So Nick Shirley, in one afternoon he uncovered one hundred
and ten million dollars of fraud, and in fact, during
the video he has a running tally of the fraud
each place that he uncovers. The reason at the end
it speaks volumes that the police showed up and forced
them to leave, not because they were investigating fraud, that
the people in that building were obviously robbing the Minnesota taxpayers. Now, listen,
(11:43):
I don't fault that police officer. He's doing his job.
The problem is his job is decided by the Mayor
of Minneapolis and the City Council of Minneapolis, and they
are all corrupt democrats who are being paid for by
these Somali thieves. And so at the end of the day,
the police knows their jobs is protect the criminals, protect
(12:07):
the thieves, because the thieves are funding the politicians who
are in charge of the city.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. You
know this also goes back to saying you and I
talked about several months ago when we had then the
man in charge of DOGE. He was warning us about waste,
fraud and abuse. That was Elon Musk. He actually retweeted
(12:35):
the last couple of days this segment that we had
from him in the DOJ office and the EOB next
to the White House. And I want to play that
for people just to remind you of what he was
talking about of entitlement payments going to people just like
these Somalians and illegals, and how this was one of
the biggest frauds, as he described it happening in the
(12:56):
history of this country. Take a listen to again, this
is Mosk on this show months ago warning about this
exact type of behavior.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
And the single biggest thing that they're that they're worried
about is that dog is going to turn off fraudulent
payments of entitlements. I mean everything from Social Security, medicare, uh,
you know, unemployment, disability, small administ regrustration loans, turn them
(13:26):
off to illegals. This is the tops of the matter. Yeap, okay,
this is this is the this is the thing that
why they really hit my guts, want me to die.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And do you think that's billions?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hundreds of billions?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
What do you think the scale is of.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
That, I think across the country. It's it's in the
it's wealth of one hundred billion, maybe two hundred billion.
So uh, why by using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have
been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal
immigrants and buy voters, and buy voters exactly the basically
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bring in a ten twenty million people who are beholden
to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelming
the Democrat as has been demonstrated in California.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is it's an election strategy.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Yes, it's power, yes, and it doesn't take much to
turn the swing states blue. I mean offen a Spring
state yet be won by ten twenty thousand votes. Sure,
so the DAMS can bring in two hundred thousand illegals
and over time get them legally legalized, not counting any
cheating that takes place, because there is some cheating, but
even without cheating, if you bake, if you have, if
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you bring in illegals that are ten xt the voted
differential in a Spring state, it will no longer be
a swing state, right, and the Dams will win all
the Spring states just a matter of time and America
will be permanent deep blue social state. At the House,
the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court will all
(15:02):
go hardcore. Then they will then further cement that by
bringing even more Aliens so you can't vote your way.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Their objemin is to make it.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
One party socialist state, and it'll be much worse than California,
because least California is mitigated by the fact that someone
can leave California.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You can go to Texas.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
Yeah, exactly, so you did go to make everywhere California,
but worse.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You know what's interesting is the way that he described it.
Their center is saying you can't. They'll get to a
point where you can't vote your way out of it.
It's almost like Elon was describing Minneapolis, minneap was Saint Paul,
and now in essence, the entire state is going that
way after its total Somali control locally.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Now, look that that is exactly right. I will say,
by the way that the interview we did with Elon Musk,
it was an hour long interview we did and in
the course of two podcasts, it remains one of my
favorite pods we've ever done. If you didn't listen to
it when it came out. I would encourage you. It
was fascinating.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We got to ask Elon all sorts of questions about
how he built tel Tesla, how he built UH SpaceX,
what are the odds of killer robots killing us all?
What's gonna happen with AI? I mean, it was it
was fun, It was interesting. Elon is a good friend,
and and and that exchange. It was prescient that he predicted.
And it's interesting he said north of one hundred billion nationwide.
(16:23):
We look at Minneapolis and Minnesota where it's already north
of nine billion in just one state. And and and
I think that prediction of a one hundred billion or
more UH is very accurate. You know. I'll also say
on the point about getting you know, Elon talked right there,
we get about getting people locked into welfare and dependency
and making him dependent on the Democrats. You know, there
(16:43):
was a tweet that Bill Ackman that the New York
Investor put out today that I thought was quite insightful.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
He said, quote, even assuming there was no fraud, none
of this makes sense. How is it that we have
been funding billions of dollars of daycare for Somali immigrants
in Minnesota, eighty one percent of which, according to Gemini,
are on welfare. Now get this, Listen to that fact again,
(17:10):
eighty one percent of Somali immigrants are on welfare. Acman continues,
In other words, if mom and dad don't work, why
the need for childcare? Perhaps you could say the welfare
statistics include some subsidies for working parents. But still in
this case, the childcare does not appear to be needed
(17:30):
as the daycare centers are empty. Furthermore, why is federal
funded childcare provided to recent immigrants on welfare versus longstanding
American working families who are not on welfare. How does
this make sense? And the answer is it doesn't. It
doesn't unless the goal is to buy votes. And if
the goal is to buy vote, since it makes perfect
(17:52):
sense and everyone responsible needs to go to jail.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Senat we're talking about accountability and CEOs. They're held accountable
when they commit major frauds. Bernie Madeoff is one I
mentioned a moment ago as well. Is there a real
chance that we will see government elected officials because of
this fraud actually be arrested and held accountable for the
fact that they're the CEO of the state and they
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are the ones that allowed this happen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
There were a lot of warning signs.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
There were whistleblowers that have come forward saying that they
had taken to the governor and they were actually punished
for being a whistleblower in Minnesota. That's part of this
story that can't be overlooked.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Look, I hope so and I believe there will be accountability.
We've already seen people being prosecuted, the fraudsters themselves. We've
seen DJ and the FBI promising to go higher up
the chain, and I hope and expect that to happen now.
You know, I will say on Twitter, lots of folks
are commenting with our last couple of pods and they're
(18:51):
yelling at me, going, what will Ted do something about it?
And then let's get back to the basic constitution and
the separation of powers. The only federal entity that can
prosecute is the executive branch, that is the Department of Justice,
that is the FBI. They can bring criminal charges. I
serve in the legislature. The legislature cannot prosecute anyone. What
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we can do is shine a light. Well, we can do.
This podcast reaches millions of people by shining a light
and calling for accountability. That builds the momentum for then
the executive has to bring the indictments and has to prosecute,
and that we're going to do, and I fully expect
we will also have congressional hearings again to shine a light. Now,
a congressional hearing cannot actually indict anyone and put one
(19:36):
in jail, but it can draw real attention, and it
could uncover evidence that helps helps the executive then prosecute.
They are also political consequences, and I want to play
actually an ad that I saw online. I don't know
who put this together, but it's a satirical ad about
Tim Waltz that gives some of the sense of political
consequences that will happen. That this just came out today.
(20:00):
Give a listen.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Jim Walls doesn't seek out Fraud. Fraud seeks out Tim Walls.
When scammers apply for jobs, they list him as a reference.
Under his watch, Fraud is Minnesota's fastest growing small business.
His biggest export taxpayer money delivered to foreign terrorists. If
Fraud had a frequent flyer program, he would always fly first. Class.
(20:27):
He is Tim Walls the most fraudulent man in America.
Jim Walls doesn't seek.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I love the and I remember the most interesting man
in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's that thing to that with those techys'cies, yeah, which
is such a great like great ad series they did
there for years.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And by the way, Ben, but by the way, by
the way, man, I have to say, I'm also a
fan of bearded latinos with with just you know, with
something to say in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
There's something I understand your beard like never before you
were trying to be the most interesting man in the
world of politics.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, now it's full circle.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
It's a low bar.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean those bar I get it. That's so good.
That's I'm never okay. The connection is solidified now. I
I that ad is hysterical. It's also incredibly accurate.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Look that this is and it's just the beginning. This
is only gonna get worse. As I said, this has
happened in other states. Minnesota is a perfect storm because
you've got the massive Somali community there. But but it
is happening in other states. We are going to see
accountability and and and listen, I'm really glad the Trump
administration DOJ and the FBI is going after that this
(21:40):
but also today HHS, the Trump administration came out with
with with with this announcement. Give a listen.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I'm here with Assistant Secretary Alex Adams. Alex Overseas, the
Administration for Children and Families and Trumpet journalists have made shocking,
incredible allegations of extensive fraud in Minnesota's childcare programs. We
believe the state of Minnesota has allowed scammers and fake
daycares to siphon millions of taxpayer dollars over the past decade.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
My office ACF provides Minnesota one hundred and eighty five
million dollars in childcare funds each year. That money should
be helping nineteen thousand American children, including toddlers and infants.
Any dollar stolen by fraudsters is stolen from those children. Yesterday,
I spoke directly with the director of the Minnesota Childcare
Services Office. She could not tell me with confidence whether
(22:30):
those allegations of fraud are isolated or whether there's fraud
stretching statewide.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Today, we have taken three direct actions against the blatant
fraud that seems to be rampant in Minnesota. First, I
have activated our defend the Spend system for all ACF
childcare payments across America. Starting today, we require a justification,
receipt or photo evidence before we make a payment. Second,
I've just signed and sent a demand letter to Governor Walls.
(22:57):
I required a full three hundred and sixty review of
the centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
And Third, we've launched a dedicated fraud reporting hotline and
email address at childcare dot gov. Whether you're a parent,
a provider, a member of the public, we want to
hear from you. Let me be crystal clear. ACF expects
every state to uphold the highest standards of oversight, monitoring,
and accountability for federal dollars. Minnesota is no exception.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
We're committed to holding bad actors accountable, regardless the rank
of office. Anyone is involved and perpetrating this fraud against
the American people should expect to be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So this is a step in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
If you look at the President's response and the administration's response,
I do think the best part is he's using all
of government.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
We're hearing that the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
IRS is getting involved, that the Department in Security, the FBI,
they're working with basically every part of our government to
fight this fraud, this from AJHS. And there are some
that will say, well, this is unfair because they're stopping
the funding and there has to be somebody doing good
work in Minnesota. If you're mad, I would say that
(24:10):
you should be mad at the Democrats for allowing it
to get to the point where they had to stop
the funding going to the state of Minnesota. If you're angry,
you should be angry at Waltz, and you should be
angry at every Democrat that allowed this to continue when
there was massive amounts of warning signs, not for weeks,
not for months, but for literally years and years and years.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, Ben Jim O'Neil, who just made that announcement, he
is the deputy Secretary of HHS. He's Bobby Kennedy's deputy.
Jim has been a good friend of mine for twenty
five years. Actually Jim was a groomsman at Heidi's in
my wedding, so actually long away married twenty five years ago,
So Jim was a groomsman at our wedding, and he's
a great friend. He's doing a terrific job as deputy
(24:50):
secretary at HHS. But that's the kind of leadership we
see now. It's striking when HHS put this out immediately,
Tim Waltz responded, And and here's what what Tim Waltz
said in response. This is Trump's long game. We've spent
years cracking down on fraudsters. It's a serious issue, but
(25:13):
this has been his plan all along. He's politicizing the
issue to defund programs that help Minnesotans. And and this
is this is Saul Alynsky like jiu jitsu, of attacking
the Trump administration for holding him accountable. Look, Governor Waltz,
when you let Somali and fraudsters steal nine billion dollars
(25:37):
from taxpayers, you know who doesn't get that Real Minnesotans
who are not fraudsters, real kids. And that's that's what
the Trump AHHS emphasized right now, is this money is
is made to go to Americans in need and not
to thieves who are supporting Democrats. And and we're gonna
see a whole lot more accountability coming as before.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic. You can go back and down the
podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
You may have missed.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If this was a private sector of fraud, there would
already be people in handcuffs.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
There would be people that would be doing purp walks.
It would be wall to wall coverage. But somehow, because
it's the government, it's like the Governor's not even a suspect.
The ag is not even a suspect. It's like, oh, well,
you know, we want to bring in more Somali's. That's
what the governor said a couple of days ago. We
should bring more of them in. How dare you demonize them?
(26:36):
And if there is no accountability, then did they in
fact get away with it? I would argue the answers
jest because ultimately their goal was to get Somalis to
vote for them. This was the payoff. It's pay to
play politics in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You're not wrong? And that needs to be one one
significant part of the investigation, both from journalists and from prosecutors.
There needs to be magnificant investigation into how much of
that money ended up in political coffers of politicians. How
much the reason that the Democrats in Minnesota all look
the other way is they're all getting paid a It's
(27:12):
a huge voting block. And I want you to watch this.
For those of you who are watching this online, I
want you to see this video of the mayor of
Minneapolis dancing waving a Somali flag if you haven't, but
if you're not watching it online, if you're listening on radio,
we're gonna narrate it. But here, give a look if
you can, and Ben and I will tell you what
(27:32):
you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I mean, this video is amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You got the mayor of Minneapolis up there on stage
center waving a Somali flag and dancing with a shirt
of the Somali flag on his shirt as well. If
you want to know how we got to where we
are now, this is just proof of it.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And I got to say that this mayor manages to
dance in a way that makes Tim Waltz look manly.
That is the most effeminate prancing ass kissing like unbelievably,
He's just dancing and waving a Somali flag. Now, let
me ask you, do you think someone who is desperately
(28:24):
trying to get the votes of the one hundred thousand
Somalis that Democrats have imported into Minnesota and desperately trying
to get their cash, do you think he has any
interest in investigating and finding out the billions of dollars
they're stealing from the taxpayus. Hell no, Well, and that's
how we got here.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Let's go back to the dancing mayor and talk a
little bit more about the propaganda he puts that on
social media, clearly making it well known where his allegiances
and is not to the American taxpayer.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Well, look, if you're asking how could this happen? How
could it be so brazen? How could you have daycare
centers with no kids? How could you have a care
centers with no playground equipment? How could you have centers
for kids with autism with no kids in them? How
could you have home health care providers that are not
actually providing health care like like the this the raw
brazenness of it. And the answer is the politicians were
(29:14):
complicit and and and to to understand just how craven
and corrupt they are. I want to go back to
the Minneapolis mayor Jacob Fray and and and or Frey
or fryar or however you say his name.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
If you're talking in Somali, you know, I don't know.
It depends on what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Well, I want to play a video that he put out,
and this is him really speaking to America's heartland, speaking
to you, to me, to to all of us, because
he's a mayor of a major American city. So give
a listen to Mayor fry.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
Mahga Agowad Jacob fry Dokemagalada, Minneapolis, Daman Shahabka somaliid Kaya
mid Mogadishu, Ghettowayesa Osaso Adabo Kismayo, Wellhanada ah in on
Idene Shigo, Minneapolis.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Wah okay, that's enough. I did hear him say, by.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
The way, you and I are officially unelectable in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I just want to be very I did hear him say,
kiss Mayo. And he is saying to his voters, kiss Mayo.
He's telling them to kiss Mayo. He said Mogadishu and
apparently he's running for mayor of Mogadishu, and maybe he
is mayor of Mogadishu. Look, if you're the biggest funder
of Al Shabab, yeah you're you're actually quite a star
in Mogadishu, do you think, Look, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
That guy's saying.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
And and and that is by design. And by the way,
you might think, well, okay, he's just you know, he's
just trying to appeal to a constituency. I want you
to listen to the Prime Minister of Somalia standing next
il han Omar. Ilhan Omar is the congresswoman who represents
this Somali community. And I want you to listen to
(30:55):
what the Prime Minister of Somalia says about ilhan Omar.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I mean, this is I honestly shocking when he's talking
about it's not in the interesting Well, it's somebody else,
all right.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
And and and let me let me for our listeners,
you'll be forgiven if you thought that might have been
the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, because because they both
speak Somalian and so you know, it is understandable that
the Prime Minister Somalia sounds just like the Minneapolis mayor.
But but here actually is is what the Somalian Prime
minister's name and it's it's Hassan Ali Kairie, and he
(31:46):
says the following. For for those listening on radio you
don't have the English translations, let me translate what he said. Quote,
the interests of il Han are not of the American people.
The interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people
and Somalia. That's not me saying that. Are you saying that.
(32:09):
That's the prime Minister of Somalia in Minneapolis, in America
telling presumably Americans, your member of Congress, her interests are
not America. They are Somalians and Somalia. And you want
to know why so many Democrats look the other way
as the Somalian fraudsters were robbing the taxpayers blind. It
(32:31):
is because they were in on it, they were profiting
from it, they were benefiting from it, and this embodies
level upon level of corruption.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Center,
Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to dial
with my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast
every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each
day when you listen to Verdict. Afterwards, I'd love to
have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson Podcasts,
and we will see you back here on Monday morning.
Host
Ben Ferguson
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