Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal

Alright. We have a massive show for you today, besties, but it's not gonna be our prediction show. We thought we were doing predictions, end of the year, but we had so many amazing stories to cover in the news that we're gonna do predictions next week. The first story is we have investigative journalist Nick Shirley on. He has uncovered in a breaking forty two minute video that went viral, dollars 110,000,000 in potential fraud in Minnesota. It's part of $9,000,000,000 in overall fraud, and and we've got them on the show here exclusively. This video apparently, perhaps prompted responses from Kash Patel and DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, who have sent agents in to inspect these facilities. Here's some, sort of important context. These entitlement frauds in Minnesota have been going on for over ten years. It's a thirteen, fourteen year old story. It started by an investigative reporter named Jeff Balon, launched his first investigation into this in February 2013 at Fox nine News, local investigative journalist. And after that expose, charges were brought in 2014 against a Somali woman and her husband. They skipped bail. They never faced trial. Here's a forty five second clip from 2016 from Baylon. Ali is facing numerous counts of theft by swindle and racketeering. She ran a day care business and home health care company that catered to low income families. But former employees told the Fox nine investigators back in 2013 that it was really part of a scam to collect millions in public subsidies. When I saw the bank account for the business, there were large CAF withdrawals on a continuous basis. Could I ask you a few questions? A year after our investigation, Ollie was arrested and charged with bilking the state out of about $4,000,000. Okay. Since 2018, Minnesota has seen 9,000,000,000, around 9,000,000,000 in entitlement frauds according to federal prosecutors. Just to give you guys a a concept of, what that means, that's half of the total amount spent on 14 entitlement programs in the state. So here's the direct quote from the federal prosecutor on the Minnesota fraud. The magnitude cannot be overstated. It's staggering. Industrial scale fraud. There have been over 90 convictions for more than $800,000,000 in fraud since 2022. In 2022, 47 defendants were charged in a $250,000,000 fraud scheme called Feeding Our Future that was supposed to feed hungry kids. Then up to 220,000,000 was stolen in funds for kids with autism. Then $300,000,000 was stolen in Medicaid funds meant to help people with disabilities avoid homelessness. So starting with that feeding our futures fraud in 2022, eighty two of ninety two people charged have been Somalian. Joining us right now, 23 year old investigative journalist, Nick. Shirley, welcome to the program. Thank you. It's been a crazy past few days out here in Minnesota. So I guess a good place to start is, you could tell the audience a little bit about your background, when you got into investigative journalism. …