Valuetainment - January 10, 2026


“Don’t Say It Or You’re RACIST!” - Nick Shirley EXPOSES How Minnesota Silenced Fraud Whistleblowers

Topics
fraud in Minnesota hearings Minnesota Medicaid fraud convictions
Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Abdifa Yosef Asi Kristen Robbins Trump Andrew Lugger Tim Waltz Tim Walz Al-Shabaab
“89% Are Somali” - Nick Shirley DEBUNKS Islamophobia Accusations Over Minneapolis Daycare Fraud ＂Trump Is Playing OFFENSE＂ - Trump’s Greenland Strategy TRIGGERS Arctic Showdown With Russia

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In this episode, we discuss the ongoing fraud uncovered by the Minnesota Fraud Prevention Committee and how it affects the Somali-American community in the state of Minnesota. We also hear from Rep. Kristen Robbins, D-Minnetonka, who is leading the fight to expose the fraud.

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00:00:00.000 So this clip here is the freezing of the Minnesota.
00:00:04.060 Can you tell us what this clip is, Rob?
00:00:05.340 Yes, this is Minnesota State Representative Kristen Robbins.
00:00:08.640 She talks about Tim Waltz and his team actually being proactive in threatening to expose people as racist and Islamophobic if they expose any type of Somalian fraud in Minnesota.
00:00:20.400 And who is she?
00:00:21.240 She is a state representative for the state of Minnesota.
00:00:23.460 And she's over the fraud committee. 1.00
00:00:25.600 And so she's actually in my YouTube video talking about the fraud.
00:00:28.520 She's in the part two YouTube video.
00:00:30.280 Her graphs that I showed in my first video are from her.
00:00:33.400 So she connected all the dots.
00:00:34.300 She's the Minnesota Fraud Prevention Committee chair.
00:00:36.780 Okay, got it.
00:00:37.560 Go for it.
00:00:38.640 Absolutely.
00:00:39.300 We have dozens of credible whistleblower reports saying that exact same thing, that people were told not to say anything because they'd be called racist or Islamophobic or it would hurt the state.
00:00:50.200 And so people tried to come forward but were shut down.
00:00:53.820 And that protection of a particular community is what really allowed this fraud to flourish in Minnesota for years.
00:01:01.220 But we have said very publicly that, yes, the bulk of the fraud we've discovered so far is in the Somali community. 1.00
00:01:08.560 But some of our best whistleblowers are also in the Somali community.
00:01:11.700 And it's really important that we get to the truth of this issue.
00:01:15.720 And so by failing to call it out, we allowed it to continue.
00:01:19.040 And that has hurt Minnesotans tremendously, taxpayers and our vulnerable citizens.
00:01:23.880 Have you spoken to her at all?
00:01:27.880 Yeah.
00:01:28.560 You have?
00:01:29.180 I spoke with her at the fraud committee meeting.
00:01:32.060 This recent time when you went back or the first time?
00:01:35.200 The first time.
00:01:35.720 Oh, the video at the end where you and the young African-American man are called.
00:01:39.420 So she gave a speech to that lady at the fraud committee.
00:01:42.200 And then that lady who I confronted, she was like, this is how are we going to build trust within our communities if we're talking about this?
00:01:47.540 And I said, so I was like, all right, we're going to confront that lady.
00:01:50.180 Yeah, that was very interesting at the end.
00:01:52.020 So there's Kristen Robbins right there in that red right there. 1.00
00:01:54.700 OK, so that's her.
00:01:55.700 Yeah.
00:01:56.240 So this is it.
00:01:56.980 We're at the end of this.
00:01:58.000 Rob, you want to play this?
00:01:58.840 Go back five.
00:01:59.560 Play it from right here, Rob.
00:02:01.080 Public and representative showed charts showing exactly how this fraud has been committed and who is profiting and connecting all the dots.
00:02:08.580 And while the Democrat representatives looked into the abyss, one of them spoke about how none of this is building trust and how this is a nonpartisan issue.
00:02:15.600 So I confronted her after that.
00:02:17.880 He has some very valid questions to ask about what's going on here in Minnesota.
00:02:21.240 And do you think this this fraud?
00:02:23.460 I don't know.
00:02:24.360 My name is Nick Shirley.
00:02:25.700 Do you think this fraud is Republican or Democrat or just facts that fraud is happening?
00:02:32.360 Well, because that's what I heard you talking about.
00:02:36.040 I know what I said is because we want to build.
00:02:38.100 We want to build trust.
00:02:38.980 But fraud is fraud.
00:02:39.880 So why should we be enabling fraud to happen here?
00:02:42.800 No, I don't think anybody is enabling fraud to happen.
00:02:45.100 Governor Walz accountable for this.
00:02:47.160 OK, sir.
00:02:47.880 No, no, no.
00:02:48.540 This is not.
00:02:49.520 What are you going to hold Governor Walz?
00:02:50.780 No, no, no.
00:02:51.260 She is a representative for the state of Minnesota.
00:02:53.160 Yes or no?
00:02:54.180 Excuse me?
00:02:54.900 Yes.
00:02:55.260 Are you?
00:02:55.520 If you're going to talk to me like that.
00:02:56.800 Are you in a state or I'm a disability advocate.
00:02:58.640 I heard you.
00:02:59.380 I get overstimulated.
00:03:00.980 I get overstimulated.
00:03:01.380 Ma'am, the facts are the facts that fraud is happening here and it's not a nonpartisan
00:03:07.380 issue.
00:03:09.200 How come you think fraud has been able to happen so much underneath the government here?
00:03:14.140 Listening to our test, our hearings, we've had now 10 hearings on this.
00:03:19.280 And so there's really good data from the people who both work within the administration
00:03:24.220 as well as who, both Democrat and Republicans.
00:03:27.840 I think what you heard today is that the Republicans who control this committee are not actually
00:03:32.500 interested in solving fraud.
00:03:33.740 What they're interested in is telling a story.
00:03:36.260 This fraud has happened underneath Democrat leader Tim Walz.
00:03:38.780 There has been Medicaid fraud across the country under Democrats and Republicans.
00:03:43.620 There's fraud within the Trump administration.
00:03:45.800 We have as fraud, private providers have made government a mark.
00:03:52.100 And so every person running government, Democrats or Republicans, are dealing with the issue
00:03:56.200 of how to keep fraudsters out of our public payment.
00:03:59.200 We're also dealing with veterans.
00:04:00.980 We're dealing with consumers.
00:04:02.880 I hope you're looking at that.
00:04:03.880 If you look at UnitedHealth, currently it's being charged with defrauding Medicare.
00:04:07.960 You know who runs Medicare?
00:04:09.720 President Trump.
00:04:10.840 Medicaid fraud is a 50 state issue.
00:04:13.660 And so again, it is not a partisan issue.
00:04:16.960 There are Democrats and Republicans who are sitting in that committee talking about it.
00:04:20.420 But what you did here was the Republican chair say she's not turning information over
00:04:25.100 to the one person in government who can stop payment.
00:04:28.640 And I hope you print that.
00:04:30.440 Thank you for coming.
00:04:31.480 This is crazy.
00:04:33.440 Well, it's always happening.
00:04:35.100 You're positive right there.
00:04:35.900 I mean, you see, you see that.
00:04:39.940 How do you process that afterwards when you hear her saying that?
00:04:42.980 I'm like, are you kidding me?
00:04:43.940 Like you're now you just try to blame it on Trump.
00:04:47.240 Like, can you not admit fraud?
00:04:49.740 She literally admitted fraud was taking place right there.
00:04:51.920 They all know fraud is happening in Minnesota.
00:04:53.900 So why didn't they stop it?
00:04:57.320 Yeah, I don't know.
00:04:58.180 By the way, this is the poll on where are we at on the poll with the podcast?
00:05:01.520 Oh, wow.
00:05:02.520 At 12,000, it is still at 49%.
00:05:05.040 Well, let me go to X.
00:05:06.280 Look what X is.
00:05:06.900 X is even higher.
00:05:08.240 The people on X are even more skeptical than YouTube.
00:05:11.980 63.7% think nothing's going to happen.
00:05:16.220 16% think he's going to get reelected.
00:05:18.780 Only 7.5% think he's going to go to jail.
00:05:21.320 On YouTube, 15% think he's going to go to jail.
00:05:24.500 On X, 12.8% think he's going to resign.
00:05:27.400 On YouTube, 23% think he's going to resign.
00:05:30.280 I don't know.
00:05:31.160 I don't know what's going to happen here.
00:05:32.580 But the reality of it is he's exposed.
00:05:34.680 What the U.S. government – have you spoken to anybody and asked them the question of what the U.S. government has the power to do to waltz and how that speed is going to be?
00:05:45.380 Is it a slow process?
00:05:47.260 Have you asked anybody these questions of what can happen to waltz?
00:05:49.740 Not specifically about waltz, but I've asked them, like, how come, like, in the federal government, when we talk about, like, what's happening inside our states, why can't we just go in and solve the fentanyl issue, for instance?
00:06:00.360 And pretty much this – like, we're seeing how much power states actually have inside the government when Trump wants to go and clean up a state for crime.
00:06:07.500 Right.
00:06:07.700 And governors block it. 0.91
00:06:08.840 Yeah.
00:06:08.960 So you're seeing, like, how judges can quite literally block and postpone stuff so long to the point where a lot of stuff just doesn't even happen, or sometimes people probably get discouraged to the point it's like, why even try?
00:06:21.100 And so, like I said before, I think they're just going to have to come up with a case that's so solidified that when the evidence is provided that they can't even – there's no debate for it.
00:06:30.160 But what's worrisome is in Minnesota, they found a man guilty of $7 million in fraud.
00:06:36.920 He was found guilty by – he was found guilty.
00:06:40.980 The judge then reversed it after he had been found guilty.
00:06:46.300 So, like, they're all in on this fraud.
00:06:48.180 Like, when have you ever seen somebody get committed for $7 million of fraud and then walk free after he was committed?
00:06:52.940 This is the one right here, Minnesota Judd slammed for a returning conviction of a pair involved in Medicaid fraud?
00:06:58.140 Yes.
00:06:58.520 And this is yesterday.
00:07:00.160 This is two days ago.
00:07:01.560 Go a little bit lower, Rob.
00:07:03.480 $7 million.
00:07:05.100 How much is this?
00:07:06.300 $7 million.
00:07:07.160 Yeah, right there.
00:07:08.420 A judge in Minnesota is currently facing a conviction of over $7 million of a couple who were found guilty of misusing Medicaid funds to fund a rich lifestyle.
00:07:17.100 Oh, Rob, is this the one with the cars and the houses and the travel and the luxury homes, or is that a different story?
00:07:21.320 It's a separate story, but same fraud – same type of fraud, just different people, different perpetrators that were doing it.
00:07:27.320 So this is not the same people?
00:07:28.740 No.
00:07:29.280 And where are they from that did this?
00:07:32.600 Abdifa Yosef.
00:07:33.660 Sounds like an American name.
00:07:34.620 So if you want to see where our friend here is from, Abdifa – go to images.
00:07:40.960 Look at the judges.
00:07:42.440 Like, why would she overturn that?
00:07:45.600 I don't think that's him.
00:07:46.520 Former Al-Shabaab recruit turned witness to face deportation.
00:07:55.100 Go back to that one right there.
00:07:56.440 You found something interesting.
00:07:57.680 Click on that.
00:07:59.460 What date is that?
00:08:00.660 Oh, that's 10 years ago.
00:08:02.700 Former Twin City man who joined terror group in Somalia, later became a star witness for the United States government, will be released from prison on Thursday.
00:08:09.220 I would not be surprised if that's the same man.
00:08:10.960 If this is the same man, but he isn't a free man.
00:08:16.000 Abdifa Yosef Asi is the first person to finish serving time for a terror-related charge as part of his expansive federal investigation to Al-Shabaab.
00:08:24.580 Recruitment Twin Cities.
00:08:25.780 Because he is not a U.S. citizen, has been convicted of felony federal immigration enforcement.
00:08:30.320 Officials took him to custody Thursday and into removal proceedings, said Ben.
00:08:34.700 Patak said an immigration judge will hear.
00:08:37.000 Rob, do you have the other story of the folks who used the money to – let me see if I got it here.
00:08:45.360 There you go.
00:08:46.400 So Minnesota scammers spent kids' food aid on luxury cars, jewelry.
00:08:51.380 This is December 12th, News Nation story, if you have it.
00:08:53.820 There you go.
00:08:54.120 That's the one right there.
00:08:54.820 This is feeding our future.
00:08:57.120 Yeah.
00:08:57.380 This is feeding our future.
00:08:58.480 Yeah.
00:08:58.660 Text messages recovered by investigators depict individuals flaunting their wealth,
00:09:03.080 including one photo showcasing a box containing $250,000 in cash.
00:09:08.680 They used this money that was supposed to be used for feeding children to buy houses in Minnesota,
00:09:14.420 resort property, and real estate in Kenya and Turkey, luxury cars, commercial property, jewelry,
00:09:20.120 and much more.
00:09:20.780 Former U.S. attorney Andrew Lugger said when announcing the indictments in September 2022.
00:09:27.620 I mean, this is just insane at this point.
00:09:29.200 And investigators also uncovered evidence of international money transfers with millions wired to accounts in China and Kenya.
00:09:36.020 One text message instructed, please send $1,000 to Mogadishu, Bakara,
00:09:39.920 referring to a market in Somalia previously controlled by al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate.
00:09:45.160 The location was also the site of the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident in which 18 U.S. service members were killed.
00:09:52.440 Are you kidding me?
00:09:53.560 Like, we're funneling money and sending money to people who literally hate us.
00:09:59.200 I don't know, man.
00:10:02.280 I'm Nick Shirley, and you guys can find me here on Manect.
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