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Senator points to 'fraudulent' daycare centers, pandemic SBA payments as examples of abuse
Summary
The senator told the Senate a Minnesota daycare with no enrolled children collected pandemic SBA funds and used fraud to siphon federal money, citing an investigation and urging enforcement.
On the Senate floor, the senator described a Minnesota daycare center that he said enrolled no children and was allegedly established to collect federal funds fraudulently during the pandemic. He said the location "raked in over $230,000 from the Small Business Administration alone just during the pandemic."
The senator used this example to illustrate how criminal schemes, he asserted, can extract federal pandemic relief and other funds without providing services. "There were no children at the location. None," he said while describing the site as a shell operation set up to steal Treasury money. He tied the example to a broader argument that prosecutors are now pursuing such schemes and to partisan criticism of Democratic oversight.
The transcript records the senator's description and the claimed dollar figure; it does not include investigative documents, court filings, or statements from SBA or local authorities. Reporters should seek SBA and court records to corroborate the senator's account.
