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YouTuber alleges an additional $16M in fraud tied to Minnesota transportation companies


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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 22: Conservative influencer Nick Shirley films protestors demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests on October 22, 2025 in New York City. Federal agents arrested nine individuals during an operation on Manhattan's Canal Street on Tuesday, targeting undocumented immigrants potentially linked to illegal street vending, according to officials and a senior law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)

Youtuber Nick Shirley released a new video on Wednesday, claiming to have uncovered an additional estimated $16 million in fraud stemming from nonemergency medical transportation companies operating in Minneapolis and childhood daycare centers.

In the 51-minute video, Shirley and whistleblower David Hoch claimed that dozens of these medical transportation companies don’t actually provide services and are fraudulently filling out paperwork to receive government funds. In an effort to prove their allegations, the pair visited several of the nonemergency medical transportation companies based upon addresses listed on alleged government documents obtained by Shirley.

Some of the addresses listed on the forms included an apartment complex, which in Minnesota, it is illegal for a transportation business to operate from, a corner store, and an unmarked office operating inside of a commercial office building.

Shirley showed that there were three transportation companies allegedly listed at one address — all of them which shared the same name with slight modifications. At several of the locations, Shirley pointed out how there wasn’t parking space to park the vehicles and at the places which did have vehicles present, there was no signs of use. The video showed a line of vehicles covered in snow and no foot tracks in the area.

At many of the places Shirley visited, he was met with angry members of the Somalian diaspora, accusing Shirley of bringing harm to the community through his allegations.

Unlike Shirley’s initial video exposing allegations against daycare facilities, which detailed the amount of state funding they received, there was no information on how much money the accused medical transportation companies received. Shirley based his calculations of fraud on estimations made from the number of rides rendered, ride costs, and fleet sizes of the average nonemergency medical transportation company operating in Minnesota.

Shirley’s allegations raised against nonemergency medical transportation companies are related to an investigation by the Minnesota State Attorney General’s office through PITSTOP-66, which resulted in 30 people being charged.

Last month, the Justice Department announced that it is investigating close to half of $18 billion in Medicaid services being fraudulently paid out in Minnesota. Among those services investigated includes payments to nonemergency medical transportation companies; however, the companies listed in Shirley’s video did not receive any Medicaid funding, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The National News Desk reached out to Minnesota’s Attorney General, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, and the Minnesota Republican Party for comment regarding Shirley’s most recent video.