MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. —The Quality “Learing” Center Minneapolis day care highlighted in a viral video designed to expose fraud, blamed its graphic designer for the infamous typo on its sign Monday — while a worker told The Post to “get the f–k out of here” when asked about the scam allegations.
“What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn’t think it was a big issue,” said Ali Ibrahim, 26, a son of the proprietors who explained he helps out with homework and paperwork at the facility.
“That’s gonna be fixed,” he claimed of the sign.
It wasn’t immediately clear how long the misspelled exterior sign has been in place.
Ibrahim said there were about 16 kids inside the center on Monday afternoon.
The day care was highlighted in a now-viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, released Friday amid a massive scandal involving Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded social services including day cares.
The up to $9 billion alleged scam involved supposed businesses lying about providing services for needy people to rake in millions of dollars in government funding.
“You do realize there’s supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there’s no one here?” Shirley asks in a clip at Quality Learning.
No children appeared to be at the center at the time. It’s unclear when Shirley made his visit. The facility’s hours says its hours are 2 to 10 p.m.
Ibrahim told The Post on Monday that the center was closed at the time of Shirley’s visit.
“Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, ‘Hey, they’re not working?’ ” Ibrahim argued to The Post.
A woman opening the center at 2 p.m. Monday said Shirley’s reporting was a lie.
“We don’t have fraud. That’s a lie,” she said, adding, “I don’t want to talk to you. I want to talk to my lawyer.”
Outside the center, another worker took out his smartphone to record a Post reporter who was asking him questions about the situation.
“Don’t f–king come to this area. Get the f–k out of here,” the employee said angrily.
ICE agents paid a visit to ABC Learning Center — around the corner from Quality “Learing” Center — Monday morning as part of the large-scale investigation into the widespread alleged fraud, which reportedly mainly involves members of the state’s Somali immigrant community.
“They wanted two months of attendance [records], we gave them two months of attendance,” Ahmed Hasan, director of ABC Learning Center, told The Post.
He said the agents said they were going to check if everything was correct.
Hasan told The Post they were “scared to open the door” when Shirley and his crew also came knocking at his center.
“That time ICE was coming for the Somali community. We were scared to open the door,” he said.
“They come with eight people. Five of them had masks. We thought they were ICE.”
He called the focus on Somali immigrant fraud “a targeted situation,” and said the allegations against his and other daycare facilities in Minneapolis were “a political game.”
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