“Two law enforcement agents and an FBI evidence photographer were shown on KARE video Tuesday removing a box and plastic evidence bags from the former location of Quality Learning Center, the child care business at the center of a December video by conservative content creator Nick Shirley accusing Somali businesses in the Twin Cities of wide-scale fraud.”

“A representative of Quality Learning Center told KARE shortly after Shirley’s video came out that it was not engaged in any fraud.”

“The business closed in January, according to records from the state Department of Human Services, and its infamously misspelled sign was no longer above the entrance Tuesday.”

“FBI agents were also seen Tuesday by a KARE reporter entering the Somali Senior Center, which is licensed to provide adult day care services.”

“Outside the Mako Childcare Center – also known as Mini Childcare Center – in Minneapolis, agents in FBI tactical vests silently loaded computer monitors and other evidence into vehicles parked in front of the building Tuesday, a CNN reporter observed.”

“Days after Shirley’s video brought new scrutiny to fraud allegations in the Somali community, state regulators checked the businesses he highlighted and said in a statement they were found to be “operating as expected.””

“The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families praised Tuesday’s raid and claimed some of the credit for it.”

“The most significant federal fraud investigation in the Twin Cities has focused on Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.”

“Sixty-five people – the vast majority of whom are of Somali descent – have been convicted in the Feeding Our Future probe, which began in 2022.”

“The person federal authorities said was the “mastermind” of the fraud scheme, Aimee Bock, is White.”

“Bock was convicted on seven federal charges.”

“She has not yet been sentenced, but a judge denied her request for a new trial.”

“Several federal prosecutors who had worked on the Feeding Our Future cases resigned earlier this year in the wake of the death of protester Renee Good, who was fatally shot in January by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.”

“Those attorneys – including Joseph Thompson, the chief fraud investigator for the US attorney’s office in Minnesota who had briefly served as top federal prosecutor in the state – quit after being asked by the Trump administration to investigate Good and her family rather than the ICE officer who shot her, a source familiar with the matter told CNN in January.”