<p>据 FBI 局长 Kash Patel 透露，FBI 全力以赴调查涉及十多家明尼苏达州社会服务机构的涉嫌欺诈事件。Patel 在 YouTube 视频传播开后在 X 平台上发布了声明，该视频声称展示了一些未运营但仍获得州和联邦资金的托儿所。Patel 在 X 上的一篇帖子中表示，他知道这个视频是由 23 岁的右翼大 V Nick Shirley 制作的，但坚称该机构已经 “增加” 了调查资源和人员，前往明尼苏达州，作为其针对主要针对索马里移民的持续欺诈调查的一部分。“FBI 认为这只是一个非常大冰山的冰山一角，” Patel 在周日的 X 帖子中写道。与此同时，明尼苏达州州长 Tim Walz 的办公室在被问及该视频时为其打击欺诈的持续努力辩护。“州长多年来一直在努力打击欺诈，并要求州立法机构给予更多权力以采取强有力的行动，” 州长办公室的一位发言人在电子邮件中表示。“他加强了监督——包括对这些特定设施的调查，其中一家已经关闭。” 司法部多年来一直在进行一项涉及明尼苏达州部分索马里社区成员的大规模欺诈调查。2022 年，在拜登政府期间，联邦检察官宣布了初步起诉，称这是一起涉及 2.5 亿美元的欺诈联邦资助儿童营养计划的阴谋。截至上个月，检察官已对 77 人提出指控。他们将白人女性 Aimee Bock 描述为该行动的策划者。她在今年 3 月被陪审团定罪。自称独立记者的 Shirley 最近将明尼苏达州的欺诈问题推向了保守派媒体的聚光灯。他在明尼阿波利斯的报道迅速得到了副总统 JD Vance、埃隆·马斯克和各种右翼媒体的支持，他们在 X 和 YouTube 上发布了他的视频，观看次数已达数百万。“这是我和我的团队揭露明尼苏达州欺诈的完整 42 分钟，这可能是我迄今为止最重要的工作，” Shirley 在网上声称。“我们在一天内揭露了超过 1.1 亿美元的欺诈。” 视频中，Shirley 站在明尼阿波利斯一家看似不活跃的托儿中心前，标牌上写着 “Quality Learning Center”，并且 “learning” 一词拼写错误。Shirley 声称该中心今年从 “政府” 获得了 190 万美元。“这里发生的是公开和公然的欺诈，” Shirley 坚持称，称其为 “明尼阿波利斯内部由索马里人经营的数百家托儿所中的一个。” Shirley 没有立即回应 NBC 新闻的评论请求。但他对右翼媒体并不陌生，并在 1 月 6 日骚乱中与一名抗议者进行了直播采访——该抗议者后来被判入狱，随后被唐纳德·特朗普总统赦免——他将该采访发布在 YouTube 上。他的 YouTube 频道称拥有 120 万粉丝，并定期发布政治内容，包括来自多个地点的街头采访。10 月，他作为嘉宾参加了白宫关于反法西斯主义的会议，这是一个去中心化的极左翼团体。周一，当 NBC 新闻记者拨打托儿中心时没有人接听。但在明尼阿波利斯同一地址的儿童学习中心获得了州政府的许可，可以照顾 99 名儿童。自 2022 年以来，该设施因未进行所需的背景调查而被州政府罚款两次，并且在 6 月的最近一次许可检查中列出了几项违规行为。州儿童、青年和家庭部（DCYF）没有立即回应关于 Shirley 声称该设施在 2025 年获得 190 万美元政府资金的评论请求。Walz 的办公室在回应 NBC 新闻的电子邮件时表示，Quality Learning Center 已经关闭，州 DHS“已经将这些提供者转介给执法部门，执法部门已经进行了突袭。” Walz 的办公室没有说明托儿设施何时关闭。Shirley 与一名他仅称为 Dave 的研究人员一起，访问了其他几个托儿所，他们向这些设施的明显索马里移民提出问题，并与声称住在该地区的人交谈，他们坚持称从未在任何地点见过儿童。特朗普政府本月早些时候利用这一欺诈丑闻，开始在明尼苏达州打击非法移民，该州大约有 80,000 名索马里裔居民。特朗普在新闻报道中得知数十名索马里裔因与 Covid 救助相关的欺诈计划被定罪，涉及金额超过 10 亿美元后，对索马里移民进行了多次贬损的抨击。“我不想让他们在我们国家，” 特朗普说。“我会诚实地告诉你，好吧。有人会说，‘哦，那不政治正确。’ 我不在乎。我不想让他们在我们国家。他们的国家之所以不好是有原因的。” Walz 抨击特朗普 “妖魔化” 索马里移民。“如果你犯罪，你就会入狱，” Walz 在 12 月的一次活动中说。“无论你的种族、民族、宗教是什么——但通过种族和民族妖魔化整个群体，这个群体为这个州的经济和文化活力做出了贡献，是我希望我们永远不必看到的事情。” 特朗普政府的成员还呼吁民主党人 Walz 辞职，指责他未能遏制腐败。但 Walz 在 2022 年担任州长时，司法部首次开始对明尼苏达州的人提起指控，指控他们在疫情期间利用联邦资助的儿童营养计划。“这是一个规模庞大的公然阴谋，” 当时明尼苏达州地区检察官 Andrew M. Luger 在首次宣布联邦指控时表示。</p>

<p>联邦调查局（FBI）加大了对涉嫌欺诈的调查，涉及明尼苏达州的社会服务，特别是针对那些据称在未运营的情况下仍然获得州和联邦资金的日托机构。这一资源的激增源于右翼大 V Nick Shirley 发布的一段病毒视频，该视频声称揭露了索马里社区内的重大欺诈行为。明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹（Tim Walz）的办公室为其打击欺诈的努力辩护，表示正在进行的调查和加强的监督。司法部正在调查与一项联邦资助的儿童营养计划相关的 2.5 亿美元计划，目前已有 77 人被指控</p>

<p>The FBI went into overdrive to investigate suspected fraud involving more than a dozen Minnesota social services, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, who posted a statement on X after a YouTube video purporting to show daycare facilities that aren’t operational but received state and federal funding went viral over the weekend. Patel said in a post on X that he was aware of the video, created by 23-year-old right-wing influencer Nick Shirley, but insisted the agency had already “surged” investigative resources and personnel to Minnesota as part of its ongoing fraud investigation that has largely targeted Somali immigrants. “The FBI believes this is just the tip of a very large iceberg,” Patel posted Sunday on X. Meanwhile, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s office defended its ongoing efforts to crack down on fraud when asked about the video. “The governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and ask the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action,” a spokesperson for the governor’s office said in an email. “He has strengthened oversight — including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed.” The Justice Department has been running a sprawling fraud investigation involving some members of Minnesota’s Somali community for years. In 2022, during the Biden administration, federal prosecutors announced initial indictments in what they called a $250 million scheme to defraud a federally funded child nutrition program. As of last month, prosecutors had charged 77 people. They described Aimee Bock, who is white, as the mastermind of the operation. She was convicted by a jury in March of this year. Shirley, a self-described independent journalist, put the subject of Minnesota fraud in the spotlight of conservative media in recent days. His report out of Minneapolis was quickly championed by Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and various right-wing outlets, posted his video on X and YouTube, where it’s been viewed millions of times. “Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet,” Shirley claimed online. “We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day.” Among other things, the video features Shirley in front of what appears to be an inactive childcare center in Minneapolis with a sign that reads “Quality Learing Center,” including an apparent misspelling of “learning.” Shirley contends it received $1.9 million dollars “from the government” this year. “This is open and blatant fraud taking place here,” Shirley insists, calling it “just one of the hundreds of child daycare centers here inside of Minneapolis being ran (cq) by the Somali population.” Shirley did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News. But he is no stranger to right-wing media and did a live interview with a protester at the Jan. 6 riot — who was later sentenced to prison before being pardoned by President Donald Trump — that he posted on YouTube. His YouTube channel says it has 1.2 million followers, and he regularly posts political content there including person-on-the-street interviews from numerous locations. In October, he was a guest at a White House conference on antifa, a decentralized set of extreme left-wing groups. There was no answer when an NBC News reporter called the childcare center Monday. But a Child Learning Center at that same address in Minneapolis is licensed with the state to care for 99 children. The facility has been fined twice by the state since 2022 for allegedly not performing a required background check, and had several violations listed from its most recent licensing visit in June. The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Shirley’s claim that this facility received $1.9 million in government funding in 2025. Walz’s office, in response to an email from NBC News, said the Quality Learning Center has been shuttered and the state DHS has “already referred these providers to law enforcement, and law enforcement has already conducted raids.” Walz’s office did not say when the daycare facility was closed. Shirley, accompanied by a researcher he identifies only as Dave, visited several other daycare sites where they peppered apparent Somali immigrants at the facilities with questions and talked to people who said they lived in the area who insist they have never seen any children at any of the locations. The Trump administration seized on the fraud scandal earlier this month as it embarked on a crackdown on illegal immigration in Minnesota, which is home to about 80,000 people of Somali descent. Trump delivered several derogatory rants against Somali immigrants following news reports that dozens of people of Somali descent had been convicted in fraud schemes related to Covid relief that netted over $1 billion. “I don’t want them in our country,” Trump said. “I’ll be honest with you, OK. Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for a reason.” Walz blasted Trump for “demonizing” Somali immigrants. “If you commit crimes, you go to jail,” Walz said at a December event. “Doesn’t matter what your race is, what your ethnicity, religion — but demonizing an entire group of people by their race and their ethnicity, a very group of people who contribute to the vitality — economic, cultural — of this state, is something I was hoping we’d never have to see.” Members of the Trump administration have also called for the resignation of Walz, a Democrat who was former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate in last year’s presidential election, for allegedly failing to stem the corruption. But Walz was the governor in 2022 when the DOJ first began charging people in Minnesota with exploiting a federally funded nutrition program for children during the pandemic. “This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” then U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger for the District of Minnesota said when the first federal charges were announced.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>据 FBI 局长 Kash Patel 透露，FBI 全力以赴调查涉及十多家明尼苏达州社会服务机构的涉嫌欺诈事件。Patel 在 YouTube 视频传播开后在 X 平台上发布了声明，该视频声称展示了一些未运营但仍获得州和联邦资金的托儿所。Patel 在 X 上的一篇帖子中表示，他知道这个视频是由 23 岁的右翼大 V Nick Shirley 制作的，但坚称该机构已经 “增加” 了调查资源和人员，前往明尼苏达州，作为其针对主要针对索马里移民的持续欺诈调查的一部分。“FBI 认为这只是一个非常大冰山的冰山一角，” Patel 在周日的 X 帖子中写道。与此同时，明尼苏达州州长 Tim Walz 的办公室在被问及该视频时为其打击欺诈的持续努力辩护。“州长多年来一直在努力打击欺诈，并要求州立法机构给予更多权力以采取强有力的行动，” 州长办公室的一位发言人在电子邮件中表示。“他加强了监督——包括对这些特定设施的调查，其中一家已经关闭。” 司法部多年来一直在进行一项涉及明尼苏达州部分索马里社区成员的大规模欺诈调查。2022 年，在拜登政府期间，联邦检察官宣布了初步起诉，称这是一起涉及 2.5 亿美元的欺诈联邦资助儿童营养计划的阴谋。截至上个月，检察官已对 77 人提出指控。他们将白人女性 Aimee Bock 描述为该行动的策划者。她在今年 3 月被陪审团定罪。自称独立记者的 Shirley 最近将明尼苏达州的欺诈问题推向了保守派媒体的聚光灯。他在明尼阿波利斯的报道迅速得到了副总统 JD Vance、埃隆·马斯克和各种右翼媒体的支持，他们在 X 和 YouTube 上发布了他的视频，观看次数已达数百万。“这是我和我的团队揭露明尼苏达州欺诈的完整 42 分钟，这可能是我迄今为止最重要的工作，” Shirley 在网上声称。“我们在一天内揭露了超过 1.1 亿美元的欺诈。” 视频中，Shirley 站在明尼阿波利斯一家看似不活跃的托儿中心前，标牌上写着 “Quality Learning Center”，并且 “learning” 一词拼写错误。Shirley 声称该中心今年从 “政府” 获得了 190 万美元。“这里发生的是公开和公然的欺诈，” Shirley 坚持称，称其为 “明尼阿波利斯内部由索马里人经营的数百家托儿所中的一个。” Shirley 没有立即回应 NBC 新闻的评论请求。但他对右翼媒体并不陌生，并在 1 月 6 日骚乱中与一名抗议者进行了直播采访——该抗议者后来被判入狱，随后被唐纳德·特朗普总统赦免——他将该采访发布在 YouTube 上。他的 YouTube 频道称拥有 120 万粉丝，并定期发布政治内容，包括来自多个地点的街头采访。10 月，他作为嘉宾参加了白宫关于反法西斯主义的会议，这是一个去中心化的极左翼团体。周一，当 NBC 新闻记者拨打托儿中心时没有人接听。但在明尼阿波利斯同一地址的儿童学习中心获得了州政府的许可，可以照顾 99 名儿童。自 2022 年以来，该设施因未进行所需的背景调查而被州政府罚款两次，并且在 6 月的最近一次许可检查中列出了几项违规行为。州儿童、青年和家庭部（DCYF）没有立即回应关于 Shirley 声称该设施在 2025 年获得 190 万美元政府资金的评论请求。Walz 的办公室在回应 NBC 新闻的电子邮件时表示，Quality Learning Center 已经关闭，州 DHS“已经将这些提供者转介给执法部门，执法部门已经进行了突袭。” Walz 的办公室没有说明托儿设施何时关闭。Shirley 与一名他仅称为 Dave 的研究人员一起，访问了其他几个托儿所，他们向这些设施的明显索马里移民提出问题，并与声称住在该地区的人交谈，他们坚持称从未在任何地点见过儿童。特朗普政府本月早些时候利用这一欺诈丑闻，开始在明尼苏达州打击非法移民，该州大约有 80,000 名索马里裔居民。特朗普在新闻报道中得知数十名索马里裔因与 Covid 救助相关的欺诈计划被定罪，涉及金额超过 10 亿美元后，对索马里移民进行了多次贬损的抨击。“我不想让他们在我们国家，” 特朗普说。“我会诚实地告诉你，好吧。有人会说，‘哦，那不政治正确。’ 我不在乎。我不想让他们在我们国家。他们的国家之所以不好是有原因的。” Walz 抨击特朗普 “妖魔化” 索马里移民。“如果你犯罪，你就会入狱，” Walz 在 12 月的一次活动中说。“无论你的种族、民族、宗教是什么——但通过种族和民族妖魔化整个群体，这个群体为这个州的经济和文化活力做出了贡献，是我希望我们永远不必看到的事情。” 特朗普政府的成员还呼吁民主党人 Walz 辞职，指责他未能遏制腐败。但 Walz 在 2022 年担任州长时，司法部首次开始对明尼苏达州的人提起指控，指控他们在疫情期间利用联邦资助的儿童营养计划。“这是一个规模庞大的公然阴谋，” 当时明尼苏达州地区检察官 Andrew M. Luger 在首次宣布联邦指控时表示。</p>
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Patel 表示，在视频走红之前，FBI 因托儿所欺诈指控向明尼苏达州增派了资源