The Patriot Post® · Nick Shirley Exposes More California Fraud

By Emmy Griffin ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/126048-nick-shirley-exposes-more-california-fraud-2026-03-20

Last week, I penned an article congratulating CBS News for committing an act of bona fide journalism by exposing hospice fraud in the Los Angeles area. CBS published another astonishing report yesterday.

YouTuber Nick Shirley was right on CBS’s heels, posting his own exposé this week.

Shirley is the independent reporter who brought to light the Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota. Now, he has ventured into California, where the scope of the fraud is even bigger than what took down Governor Tim Walz.

In the 40-minute video, Shirley and his team go to a rundown motel that ostensibly houses 30 hospices in its dilapidated old rooms. Shirley, in his typical style, knocked on doors and tried to talk to people. Some refused to speak and fled the parking lot in brand-new luxury vehicles. Others confronted him aggressively. Shirley and company even went to a hospice consultant firm, hoping to better understand how to start their own hospice, but the secretaries there refused to let them into the building. One even left out the back in a brand-new Mercedes-Maybach.

This is the second exposé in two weeks vis-à-vis the same fraud. You would think that if Governor Gavin Newsom had an ounce of political sense, he would at least be feigning outrage at the fraudsters and vowing to do something about it. His team did that with CBS, but with Nick Shirley, they could not help showing their utter contempt for the American taxpayer.

Here is the meme that Newsom’s press office posted in response to Shirley’s investigation.

Translation: Gavin Newsom, a Democrat frontrunner for the 2028 presidential race, decided to depict Shirley as a pedophile rather than address the $170 million in fraud that he uncovered.

I suppose if you can’t defend your inaction on a known problem (the auditor of California has been sounding the alarm for years), it’s better to deflect and distract. That strategy usually works for Newsom. California is on fire? Blame climate change and Donald Trump! There is fraud in the state? Trump is still bad!

This time, though, it didn’t work out so well for Newsom. Shirley responded to the post, stating, “You do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right? No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them.”

In a word, Newsom got ratioed. His sophomoric post garnered only 26,000 likes, while Shirley’s response exploded — as of this writing, it has 275,000 likes. Gavin’s political blunder led more people to watch Shirley’s video, which is a double smackdown for Newsom.

This is known as the Streisand Effect: the more you wish people to look away, the more they want to see what you are trying to hide.

Even Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman chimed in against this petty swipe, calling out Newsom in a podcast. “Why can’t you celebrate any journalist or any activist doing that?” he asked. “And Governor Newsom put out a disgusting video implying that he’s a pedophile … why? That’s kind of a smear. … Shouldn’t we agree [to] eliminate all the waste?” Fetterman added, “Fraud can happen on both sides, but when it’s identified, I don’t care if it’s in a Democratic state. We should all just acknowledge maybe there is a problem here.”

It seems that, as usual, Newsom chose the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, which is the problem for most Democrats these days. It also further exposes how deeply he has run California into the ground. Newsom has exacerbated the homelessness problem after campaigning on fixing it, promised a high-speed rail that has yet to lay down a single piece of track, and pledged to prosecute fraud, which has now blossomed into a full-scale epidemic under his watch.

If Gavin Newsom had any decency, he would resign from office because he has singlehandedly destroyed a once-covetable state. He is not fit to manage a coffee shop, let alone the world’s fourth-largest economy — and certainly not the country itself.

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