Overview
- The FBI and Department of Homeland Security said they have added personnel and resources in Minnesota to investigate suspected fraud involving childcare and other social‑service programs.
- Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth and Families said recent inspections of centers featured in Nick Shirley’s video found no fraud and staff are conducting new site visits, with no payments paused or new charges announced for those facilities.
- The Quality “Learing” Center remains a flashpoint, with state officials describing it as closed and the center’s staff insisting it operates during posted afternoon and evening hours; reporters observed children entering on Monday.
- Minnesota’s DHS licensing lookup website experienced outages after what the agency called an unprecedented surge in public traffic following the video.
- Surveillance video from an earlier Minnesota case resurfaced showing parents signing in children and then leaving, a tactic used in past prosecutions that frame the broader, yearslong fraud inquiries.