Overview
- FBI and Homeland Security surged personnel to Minnesota and conducted on-site checks at suspected providers, with one account saying agents visited about 30 businesses in Minneapolis on Monday.
- DCYF Commissioner Tikki Brown said prior unannounced inspections of the centers featured in the video produced no findings of fraud, and state staff are re-inspecting the sites, including 55 active CCAP-related probes.
- The Quality Learning Center, highlighted for a misspelled sign and appearing inactive, denied wrongdoing, said the video was filmed outside its 2 p.m.–10 p.m. hours, and showed visible activity on Monday.
- Confusion persisted over Quality Learning Center’s status as local reports toggled between closure and continued operation, and Minnesota’s licensing lookup site briefly crashed under heavy public scrutiny.
- Resurfaced 2015 surveillance from a 2018 case showed daycare billing schemes in the region, and a federal prosecutor recently alleged red flags across programs with potential losses of roughly $9 billion, a figure state officials dispute.