New Nick Shirley Video: Somali Pirates Are Defrauding Us for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by Running Fake Taxpayer-Funded Transporation Companies

All of this enabled by free-spending Democrats desperate to loot the public treasury to put money in their voters' pockets.

Nick Shirley digs deeper: the taxi scam propping up welfare fraud

In his latest on-the-ground video, conservative journalist Nick Shirley turns his attention squarely to taxpayer-funded taxi operations in Minneapolis, zeroing in on Somali-run transportation companies paid through Medicaid to ferry low-income and medically vulnerable residents to appointments, government offices, and essential services.

This time, Shirley documents visits to multiple listed business addresses that are supposed to be operating taxi services.

What he finds instead are empty or questionable locations and angry confrontations--plenty of shouting, but no paperwork, schedules, vehicles, or proof that legitimate transportation services are actually being provided to Minnesotans footing the bill.

"These transportation companies are what hold all the aid and welfare fraud together," Shirley says in the video, arguing that the taxi operations act as the connective tissue linking fraudulent daycare centers, adult care programs, and healthcare providers.

According to Shirley, the coordination between these entities creates the appearance of legitimate services while enabling mass billing of Medicaid.

His colleague David Hoch puts it more bluntly: "We're shining the light on the fraud, and they have no defense."

The taxi focus has also prompted new firsthand accounts from locals.

In one TikTok video now circulating widely, a former drug addict claims Somali taxi drivers paid him simply to sign ride receipts--documents later used to bill Medicaid--allowing drivers to collect taxpayer money for trips that never happened.

As Shirley's taxi-focused investigation spread, Minnesota's political and media establishment began quietly conceding what watchdogs have warned about for years.

The Minnesota Star Tribune acknowledged that non-emergency medical transportation--including taxi services--has long been vulnerable to fraud, citing industry insiders who say alarms have been ignored.

Scott Isaacson, president of the Minnesota R-80 Transportation Coalition, told the paper that people working in the transportation sector have "been ringing the fraud bell for quite some time," pointing to repeated abuses baked into the system.

State data underscores the scale.

Minnesota Department of Human Services records show Medicaid transportation billings climbing from roughly $80 million in 2018 to more than $115 million by 2024, before dipping last year to about $88 million.

The concerns aren't new.

More than 15 years ago, Minnesota's Office of the Legislative Auditor warned that the state exercised "little statewide oversight" over medical transportation, including taxi services, allowing excessive mileage, unnecessary trips, and weak authorization controls.

It's almost as if Democrats deliberately make it impossible to verify if these charges are real.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, speaking with conservative activist Christopher Rufo earlier this month, indicated investigators are deliberately building a sweeping fraud, kickback, and racketeering case tied to Minnesota's Democrat political apparatus.

"My personal motto, and the Treasury motto, is move deliberately and fix things," Bessent said on the podcast. "You're not going to see headlines tomorrow. You're not going to see them next week, but in a month, or a quarter, once we get people in the bear trap, they're not getting out because we will have conclusive evidence to present."

Bessent suggested prosecutors expect plea deals that force lower-level players to flip on those higher up the chain, allowing investigators to map how the system operated and who benefited.

"I think that they will have to make plea deals ... to turn in higher-ups to help us map out how this happened," he said.

And Minnesota, he added, is only the starting point.

"We're going to take this Minnesota strategy map to the other 49 states."

Below, Somali "businesses" paid by the taxpayer to supposedly ferry sick people to doctors turn out to have no vehicles and no parking lots. In one case, they found a bunch of vehicles -- which you paid for -- but those vehicles haven't been moved for six months.

They find no signs of legitimate taxi services, but they do find a lot of Somali thugs physically menacing them.

Here's the full video:

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

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🚨 BREAKING: A TSA whistleblower exposed to Nick Shirley that he WATCHED Somalis send millions of dollars in *cash* through the airport on a weekly basis via suitcases

$6M PER WEEK.

"There was always 2 individuals traveling. So you would have maybe one guy with $2.2 million and another guy with $3 million."

"Our hands were kind of tied. We couldn't do a whole lot. We would rack our heads all the time like, where are they getting this?!"

"Where in the world are they getting this money? And I had heard about these daycares and whatnot, but I mean, I thought at the time, okay, maybe they had 10 daycares but apparently they have a lot more than that!"

"Millions. Literally millions and millions. I mean, we're talking for a good 5-6 years you're talking...$5-6M per week!" @nickshirleyy

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