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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Citizen Journalist Descends On Ohio, Immediately Finds 'First Signs Of Potentially Massive Somali Fraud'

2025-12-30

Elon Musk estimates $1.5 Trillion government money spent on Somali fraud. Will we still have a federal deficit when we reach the end?

[ZH] The "Nick Shirley Effect" has begun, with Muckraker founder Anthony Rubin on the ground in Columbus, Ohio, home to the second-largest Somali community in the U.S., investigating daycare centers. This development comes less than a day after Ohio attorney Mehek Cooke said federal investigators are examining allegations that elements within Ohio's Somali community defrauded millions of dollars from the state's Medicaid system.
Somali daycare
"The first Somali-affiliated daycare facility that we knocked on after landing in Columbus, Ohio, today did not answer," Rubin wrote on X, alongside a video showing the daycare center, Great Minds Learning Academy.

Rubin continued, "A neighbor across the street told us, 'I've never seen anybody come out of the building or go into the building.'"

FIRST SIGNS OF MASSIVE POTENTIAL SOMALI FRAUD IN COLUMBUS, OHIO

The first Somali-affiliated daycare facility that we knocked after landing in Columbus, Ohio today did not answer.

A neighbor across the street told us, “I’ve never seen nobody come out the building or go in the… pic.twitter.com/zywy9lPDMw
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) December 30, 2025

…or go in the building.”

Follow
@realmuckraker
as we figure out what the hell is going on in Columbus, Ohio.

Shout out to
@nickshirleyy
for blowing this story wide open.

Go read the entire Twitter thread — lots of useful information in the responses.
Update at 12:30 pm ET: Two citizen journalists:

After the fraud scandal in Minnesota, a TikToker decided to investigate daycare centers in Ohio, which has the country’s second-largest Somali population.

By plugging the addresses into Google Maps, he discovered that many of the buildings didn’t look like typical childcare… pic.twitter.com/geubb1DwiC
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 30, 2025

…didn’t look like typical childcare facilities—lacking playgrounds, proper signage, and even having blacked-out windows.

Even more striking, he found that several of these daycare centers had donated money to the same Somali congressmen.

The fraud is Minnesota is just a tip of the iceberg.

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