Minnesota fraud is a seemingly never-ending and endlessly entertaining story. The alternate media reports on the skyrocketing dollar total, now up to $9 billion, while the legacy media tries to explain why the fraud isn’t anywhere near $9 billion as if fraud totaling a mere few billion isn’t really a big deal. 

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Simultaneously, Minnesota’s Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, who is running for the Senate, appears in a Hijab while claiming Somali fraudsters are responsible for everything good about Minnesota. And if that wasn’t bad enough, a downtown McDonald’s in Minneapolis has locked its doors during business hours and will only admit people who don’t look as likely as usual to defecate or urinate on the floor, attack decent customers, or do their own little Jihad beneath the golden arches.

Until recently, “the Feeding our Future” fraud was taking top honors. In that scam, Somali restaurants submitted invoices for hundreds of thousands of meals supposedly delivered to children out of hole in the wall restaurants or other shacks, and Tim Walz’s government gladly paid. It appears some state employees did due diligence and noticed no food was being delivered to those places, nor were any children showing up to eat all that nonexistent food and tried to complain but were harassed or ignored. Under Walz, no prosecutions have occurred; every prosecution to date has been the Feds.

Now, an ironically comic new fraud amounting—for the moment—to around $4 million dollars, has been discovered: fake daycare centers, like the “Quality Learing Center.” We don’t know if that particular “center” is focused on Shakespearean classics like King Lear, or whether they just can’t spell “leer,” or “learning,” which seems the mostly likely probability.

And who discovered this particular fraud?  A YouTuber:

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This week, YouTuber Nick Shirley and another man approached a building labeled the Quality Learing Center (sic) on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, with Shirley noting that "Learning" was spelled incorrectly on the daycare’s sign outside.

Almost immediately, a woman appears and repeatedly yells — ostensibly to anyone inside the building — "Don’t open up. It’s ICE."

Hmmm.  That sounds kind of suspicious, almost like the people at the “Learing Center” aren’t native born Minnesotans of Scandinavian extraction. 

Shirley asked the woman whether she thought he or the other man were immigration agents and identified himself as an online commentator.

The man held up a paper that appeared to show $1.9 million had been disbursed to the center in fiscal year 2025, adding that the total disbursement to the center that he had recorded was $4 million.

"Go away. You’re not welcome here. Shame on you," the woman told Shirley. It remained unclear whether the woman had any association with the center.

"Are you in favor of $1.9 million going illegally/fraudulently to this business that [is called] ‘Quality Learning Center’ but can't spell ‘learning’ right on the door?"

There were apparently no children present at this particular “Learing Center,” which has a long and disturbing history with the state:

The Quality Learning Center also recently made news for collecting 95 violations from the state human services agency between 2019 and 2023, according to St. Paul’s ABC affiliate.

Such violations range from failure to keep hazardous items away from kids to the daycare not having any records for more than a dozen listed children, according to the outlet. Documentation reviewed by Fox News Digital showed the site’s current license does not expire until the end of 2026.

So, a “Learing Center” for children has years of citations for dangerous violations and still has a license through 2026? It’s that kind of rigorous attention to fiscal responsibility and public safety that has made Minnesota what it is under Tampon Tim Walz. Fox News Digital asked Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison for comment and shockingly got none.

Perhaps it’s time to change Minnesota’s motto from “Minnesota Nice” to “Minnesota Vice?”

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.