Independent journalist Nick Shirley tore into Democrats over recently exposed massive fraud schemes, singling out Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar Sunday night as the worst of the Democrats he says enable or hide these scams.
Democrats have been fighting Republicans on the many fraud allegations and investigations underway in states like California and Minnesota, even putting forward a bill one Republican dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” in California to hobble independent journalists working to expose the problem. Shirley confronted California lawmakers over that bill in a video he posted Saturday. In a Fox News appearance on Sunday, Shirley called out Democrats like Omar, who he called “queen of the fraud,” for their “suspicious” behavior and motives.
“It’s a bit suspicious to have your net worth go by millions and then just recently say that it’s an error. I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever put two extra zeros as an error when I file any report,” Shirley told “The Big Weekend Show” co-host Guy Benson. “So, Ilhan Omar, we know who she is, we know that she is like the queen of the fraud, actually. So, Ilhan Omar, no respect to her whatsoever.”
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During the Biden administration, the Justice Department probed how Omar’s wealth jumped since she entered Congress, particularly due to income received by her husband. Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said during a Jan. 8 appearance on “Varney and Company” that Omar had tried to sneak through an earmark of over $1 million for a suspicious “substance abuse clinic” housed at a Somali-owned restaurant.
Shirley’s December video featuring his visits to multiple purported day care centers run by Somali migrants in Minnesota brought national attention to major problems with welfare and other types of fraud resulting in millions of taxpayer dollars. Shirley discussed the proposed legislation targeting independent journalists in California, taking aim at the sponsor of AB2624, Democratic state Assemblywoman Mia Bonta after co-host Tomi Lahren noted the assemblywoman’s connection to California’s attorney general, Democrat Rob Bonta.
“Their goal as a family should be to prosecute and take care and make sure that there is so little fraud in the state that they can have such a peaceful night of sleep,” Shirley said. “However, while the attorney general is supposed to be prosecuting fraud, his wife is creating laws to let fraud continue, specifically saying that NGOs who receive money based off immigrant services don’t have to disclose their money.”
Shirley posted a 40-minute video in March during which he looked into hospice centers in the Los Angeles area, at one point claiming he uncovered at least $170 million in fraud. Shirley noted that security had become an issue as well.
“I was up on the hotel there were people on group chat saying where I was saying it’s happened a few times now it’s almost even dangerous [for] me to stay at hotels,” Shirley told Lahren, noting that he has received “constant death threats.”
“They should be working with me to crack down on this fraud instead of wanting to make me look like the bad person,” Shirley added. “Maybe it is because that fraud makes them look bad, but in reality I’m there to help everyone out. This is not Republican or a Democrat issue. There’s a lot more fraud in Democrat states… For them to make these attacks is quite frankly very stupid of them to do that when I am providing a huge public service.”
Omar did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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