Corstin helps “Big Balls” Edward with his now-viral scam videos

Nick Shirley – right-winger The Creator Who YouTube investigation The Trump administration sparked Immigration campaign In Minnesota – claims his latest video about alleged fraud in California was supported by data provided by everyone else Edward Kurstinone of the first members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known online as the “Big Balls”.

Corstin, who joined DOGE At 19 years old With no prior government experience, he worked at several agencies including the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Before joining DOGE, Coristin worked at Elon Musk’s Neuralink company for several months and founded a startup known for hiring black hat hackers.

In an interview with Corstin Posted on Shirley’s YouTube channel On Thursday, Shirley alleged that Coristin personally pulled data on Medicaid spending for businesses based in California as potential targets. Corstin nodded, telling Shirley that the government should create more opportunities for mass investigations into fraud.

The information Coristen allegedly pulled for Shirley was from a data set published by the DOGE team at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in February. In a post for X at the timethe HHS DOGE team referred to it as “the largest Medicaid dataset in the department’s history.” The post also claimed that the data set could be used to “uncover” large-scale fraud.

“Then, I went to California based on the data set you helped me extract, and these scammers also didn’t try to hide it,” Shirley told Coristen in an interview Thursday.

With open source data on government spending, gatekeeper investigators like Shirley who are “in a better position” can uncover fraudulent payments, Koristin said. “You’re someone who actually went to the places where we were spending all this money and confronted the people and learned the truth,” Kuristen said. “I think we just have to create more opportunities to make that happen. We have to continue to open source the data.”

The intersection of the right’s favorite fraud influencer and one of DOGE’s most famous architects embodies the next evolution of DOGE and the Trump administration’s fight against “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

Shirley’s videos have become major evidence of the Trump administration’s immigration fraud and crackdowns. When Shirley released his video in December in which he claimed to have exposed more than $100 million in child welfare scams run by Somalis in Minnesota, figures like Vice President J.D. Vance shared it. A A wave of immigration agents Then they were sent to MinnesotaWhich led to mass arrests and arrests, and the killing of two demonstrators. Rene is good and Alex Pretty.

Early in their YouTube video, Shirley and Kuristen directly link fraud to immigrant and foreign communities. “A lot of money is being stolen and smuggled out of the country,” Coristine says, without providing any evidence. “Once that money gets into the suitcase to Somalia, it never comes back,” Shirley answers.

Later in the video, Shirley and Kuristen cite specific examples of “waste and fraud” identified by DOGE, including funding a “Sesame Street-style children’s TV show in Iraq” and “tax policy consulting in Liberia.” Both programs He was Supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID)which DOGE effectively shut down in the first months of 2025. Coristin also claimed that the SBA “did a terrible job,” especially with loans during the peak of the coronavirus, and that “there were no checks at all on who was receiving the money, not even the most basic checks like whether (the Social Security number) was real.”