ExclusiveFROM SOCIAL MEDIA TO THE OVAL OFFICE?! 😳 The 24-Year-Old Who Put Fraud Under the Microscope 💰🔥

Tuesday morning, a 24-year-old content creator walks into the Oval Office. Well, same day, a few hundred miles north, FBI agents walk into senior centers in New York City. They come out carrying boxes, a lot of boxes. Well, coincidence? Maybe or maybe not. Today, the kid with a camera who keeps showing up right before the fest due and why the president just handed him a check. Stick around and this one gets wild. Okay, let's start in New York. Tuesday morning, Brooklyn. Investigators appeared to be inside the Happy Adult Daycare Center on Fort Hamilton Parkway. Over in Sunset Park, agents were seen going in and out of an alleged adult daycare on 8th Avenue around noon, some carrying out boxes. And it wasn't just Brooklyn. The FBI, along with Homeland Security Investigations, hit locations in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn. How big is this? Well, according to Governor Kathy Hochul, the month-long investigation targeted more than 100 social adult daycare providers. Hochul said they're going after providers suspected of everything ranging from money laundering to kickbacks to improper billing. Now, what even is a social adult daycare? Well, Think of a community center for seniors. Lunch, card games, maybe some Tai Chi. Sounds pretty sweet, right? Your grandma deserves a place to hang out. But here's the thing, taxpayers foot the bill. New York has more than 400 of these programs serving about 45,000 Medicaid members at a cost of more than $500 million a year. Well, that's half a billion dollars for bingo. And authorities say some of these places were running a scam. They believe the center's over-billed for services grossly inflated the number of clients served and engaged in kickbacks. Picture a restaurant billing you for a 50-people party when only 5 people showed up, and then paying those 5 to come back tomorrow. So who saw this coming? A guy with a camera and a hoodie. The raids came about three months after the influencer Nick Shirley published an investigation into New York City adult daycare centers in that July video he visited adult daycare businesses in Queens and raised questions about their operations and their public funding and he didn't go alone Dr. Oz who runs the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services joined him in Flushing, Queens to confront operators of suspected fraud he leaves three months later the FBI shows up. It'll sound familiar, right? It should, because he did the exact same thing in Minnesota. Rewind to last Christmas. Nick Shirley posted a 42-minute video on X and YouTube the day after Christmas. He drove around Minnesota knocking on the doors of daycare centers that were receiving government money. His question was simple. Where are the kids? Well, that video blew up. Within days, it had over 131 million views on X alone. And Washington reacted fast. The video, at least in part, prompted Health and Human Services to freeze child care payments to Minnesota. And back then, Attorney General Pam Bondi applauded the video and said that the Justice Department had been investigating Minnesota fraud for months. And FBI Director Kash Patel said what had been exposed so far, quote, is just the tip of a very large iceberg. So who is this guy? Well, Nick Shirley is from Utah. He started out as a teenager making prank and shock videos including a solo trip to New York at age 16. Yep, he flew to New York City at 16 without telling his parents but then he grew up. Apparently he switched to street reporting on protests, immigration and government spending. He's built an audience of over 1 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. And his style? No studio, no teleprompter, just him, a camera, and a lot of awkward questions on somebody's doorstep. Here's what happened next. In July, a woman named Fahima Muhammad pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy for submitting inflated meal claims for kids at her child care center, according to the Justice Department. And the White House says Muhammad was featured in Nick Shirley's video. He's also taken his show on the road to California and then to Capitol Hill where he testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee about his investigations into Medicaid, daycare, and hospice programs. Well, you know, from prank videos to Senate testimony, not bad for a kid who couldn't wait to see Times Square. But Tuesday, Tuesday he got invited somewhere even bigger and he walked out with a check. So here's the scene. Oval Office, President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Nick Shirley. for the occasion, a brand new program under the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, or WHIP, W-H-I-P, anyone who submits a tip to fraud.gov that leads to a fraud conviction or a significant federal enforcement action can receive up to $30,000 and the Justice Department will run it. you know the whole pot is 25 million dollars. Think of it like a bounty, right? The old Wild West had wanted posters and now we have fraud.gov. Well, President Trump put his own spin on the payouts he said rewards will work out to a one percent commission on the dollar amount of fraud a tip helps uncover and if two people both claim the same tip, well Trump has that covered too I will be the arbitrator of all these decisions he said and here's the part young people should hear President Trump said that journalists could participate too so you know the citizen journalists independent creators people with a phone and a conscience are invited. Well, the first big moment Trump was expected to present a ten thousand dollar check to Nick Shirley and the Hill reported the first award apparently went to Nick Shirley who joined the Trump events in the Oval Office. And Shirley's message was short. When you expose fraud, you help save America. He also added the fraud steals from poor and needy people, which is the real heart of it. Every fake client at a fake daycare is a real dollar not going to a real family. And this isn't a one-off either. Trump set up a fraud task force in March and put JD Vance in charge of it. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson serves as vice president and the White House summed up this or their attitude this way this administration has zero tolerance for individuals who steal from Americans so Washington is officially paying people to hunt fraud will it work will it get messy and who's next on Nick Shirley's list what do you think let me know in the comments below so So one kid, one camera, and one simple question, where's the money going? That question took him from Utah to Minnesota to New York and all the way to the Oval Office. No charges have been announced yet in New York, so we'll be watching, and so should you. Subscribe, hit the like button, and we'll see you next time.