U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon – maybe even as early as Monday — is “ten times worse” than the “Quality Learing Center” daycare scam.
And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley’s visit to these companies found zero companies.
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They visited the NEMT companies to find the addresses went to places with “no vehicles.” Fronts included, “an apartment building. One of them is a liquor store. Another one is a wire transfer. Another one is totally unrelated — it’s a grocery store. There are no vehicles.” He said, “The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real.”
He said that the average NEMT company in the United States has about “20 vehicles and each vehicle generates about $70,000 a year.” He said that if you run those numbers, “800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It’s an enormous sum of money that’s going out.”
Here’s a preview video that Shirley released on Friday.
Shirley says that inside the store in a grocery store in Minnesota, different shops are crammed into one store. He says a phone company wires money back to Africa.”
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Hoch said chasing the money line is fine, but he advised Bessent, “You gotta drop down like Batman on DHS” — the government agency doling out the money — ‘because they’re the ones writing the checks. They’re the ones allowing the fraud to happen.”
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But he warned, “I’m telling you, when the next video comes out, it’s going to be World War III.”
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