New video has emerged on the Somali-run taxpayer fraud in Minneapolis. Journalist Nick Shirley recorded himself visiting multiple addresses that were listed as providing taxpayer-funded taxis services for poor and unhealthy individuals.
These Somali-run companies and individuals receive funds to give rides for the sick and poor from their homes to appointments at government services, hospitals and shop at retail stores for necessities.
However, Shirley was met at the sites by getting yelled and told to go away, with no one willing to offer any evidence of provided services. Breitbart News writes: “Shirley’s exposures have compelled local pro-Democrat journalists to acknowledge and describe the fraud that they have long overlooked. That silence was likely forced by career-threatening pressure from the Democratic politicians and activists who gain from the Somali-managed fraud.”
🚨 After my last video exposing over $110 Million in fraud Tim Walz dropped his run for reelection and multiple federal investigations were launched to stop fraud across the country. In this 51 minute video David and I expose another $16 Million in fraud as Minnesota welfare… pic.twitter.com/p5r6BDXqsK
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) January 14, 2026
The pro-Democrat Minnesota Star Tribune even acknowledged the abuse has been underway for years, and is intertwined with fraud in government-funded translation services, reporting that people working in nonemergency medical transportation “have been ringing the fraud bell for quite some time,” said Scott Isaacson, president of the Minnesota R-80 Transportation Coalition, which represents many providers.
He shared a list with the Minnesota Star Tribune of the 10 most prevalent forms of fraud in the program that he and others in the field are aware of…Minnesota Department of Human Services’ data shows nonemergency medical transportation providers billed around $80 million in 2018. By 2024, that climbed to more than $115 million before dipping last year to roughly $88 million.
A recent TikTok video shows a former drug addict saying he was able to buy drugs because Somali drivers paid him for signing fake taxi receipts needed to get government payouts to the drivers.
“These transportation companies are what hold all the [aid and welfare] fraud together,” Shirley says in the video, adding:
You have the daycare centers working with the transportation companies, the adult daycare centers working with the transportation companies, the healthcare companies working with the transportation companies …. [to] make it look like [services are being provided] here inside of Minnesota.
“We’re shining the light on the fraud, and they have no defense,” said Shirley’s colleague, David Hoch.