It’s amazing what can be revealed when you go to the source.
1. No one knows who the owner is
2. Everyone hired in the past month
3. Impossible to bill for 8,000 patients100% fraud
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 11, 2026
The $9.4 million caught my attention.
Then the employee list did.
Palace Daycare billed $9.4 million last year while claiming around 8,000 patients.
So investigators asked a pretty basic question.
How many people do you actually see every day?
The answer was around 100 patients across two shifts.
Even the receptionist admitted 8,000 patients a year did not sound possible.
Okay…
Maybe someone just explained it badly.
Then the manager suddenly pretended to be on a phone call instead of answering questions.
That did not exactly clear things up.
Then came the part I could not stop thinking about.
Every person in the front office had been hired one month earlier.
Every single one.
The previous staff?
Gone.
All at once.
So who was actually working there when those millions were billed?
Nobody in the office could say.
They did not know the owners.
They could not name the people running the business.
Most of the answers sounded like, “I just started.”
Maybe there is an innocent explanation.
Maybe there isn’t.
But if you were trying to understand what happened before last month, you would quickly realize there was nobody left to ask.
That is what made this investigation feel different.
The billing numbers raised questions.
The empty institutional memory raised even more.