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Viral Fraud Investigator Returns to Minneapolis, Finds ‘Three Businesses’ in One House — Nobody Inside Knows Where They Are

Nick Shirley — the 23-year-old YouTuber whose December 2025 video about Somali-run Minneapolis daycares went viral and triggered a federal crackdown — is back in the Twin Cities, this time targeting home health businesses. His latest clip is getting the same reaction as the original: a man inside the building telling Shirley and his associate David to get out, then admitting he has no idea where one of the companies allegedly operating at the address is located.

The clip shows Shirley and David approaching a residential-style building in Minneapolis listed as the registered address for three separate businesses, one of them a “home health” company. When asked about “Silver Mountain” — apparently one of the businesses at the address — the man inside responds by yelling at them to leave, then confesses he doesn’t know where Silver Mountain is. “Three companies are supposed to be in that building, and he doesn’t know,” David notes on camera.

The scene is familiar to anyone who followed Shirley’s earlier work. In April, FBI agents and Homeland Security Investigations executed 22 federal search warrants at Minneapolis businesses as part of ongoing fraud investigations — raiding daycares, homes, and businesses, including the Quality Learning Center that first went viral in Shirley’s December video. The home health and Personal Care Attendant sector is the next front in the investigation. TMZ

Minnesota’s PCA fraud investigation has been centered on Minneapolis’s Somali community, with investigators finding that companies were frequently located in the same buildings as each other and typically run by individuals with family connections. One major scheme involved hundreds of Somali Americans whose identities were fraudulently used by drivers, interpreters, and health providers to bill Medicaid. Washington Times

To be clear on Shirley’s record: state regulators who conducted on-site checks at the daycare centers in his original December video reported the facilities were “operating as expected,” and subsequent investigations found no evidence of fraud at the specific sites he visited. Critics have called his methods sloppy, and he has acknowledged he is an influencer and content creator, not a credentialed journalist. The Minnesota Reformer, a left-leaning outlet, put it bluntly: his work is “shoddy, but the failure to stop fraud is what got us here.” CNN

What Shirley stumbled into — and what local outlets like the Minnesota Star Tribune and Sahan Journal had been reporting for years — is a well-documented pattern of fraud in which 98 people, the majority of Somali background, were indicted for allegedly stealing taxpayer funds through pandemic-era and Medicaid programs. Whether or not the specific building in his latest video is fraudulent, the pattern he keeps finding — multiple businesses registered at single addresses, operators who can’t identify their own companies — is exactly what investigators say is the signature of the fraud scheme. 13WHAM

Sources: CNN — Federal Raids | Daily Caller | Minnesota Reformer | Christian Science Monitor