Does Sweet Angel Child Care's phone number dial directly to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's office? No, that's not true: The child care center's phone number as listed on the state licensing website and several other online directories does not connect to the governor's office. The number dialed in an online video making the claim was on a Google map listing, which can be edited. No phone number was given in the Google listing at the time of writing, December 30, 2025.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared by @JakeCan72 account on X on December 29, 2025. The caption read:
????????????MINNESOTA CHILDCARE FRAUD BOMBSHELL???? Sweet Angel Child Care -- featured in Nick Shirley's fraud exposé -- has a Google-listed phone number that dials directly to Governor Tim Walz's office. Receipts: https://t.co/XrI1wgOO5v It's legit I called it myself! Audit https://t.co/jnIcsq2CTw
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????????????MINNESOTA CHILDCARE FRAUD BOMBSHELL???? Sweet Angel Child Care -- featured in Nick Shirley's fraud exposé -- has a Google-listed phone number that dials directly to Governor Tim Walz's office. Receipts: https://t.co/XrI1wgOO5v It's legit I called it myself! Audit https://t.co/jnIcsq2CTw
This is a screenshot of a frame from the video attached to the post:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The video was originally posted (archived here) by the @conservativeimmigrant account on TikTok on December 28, 2025. It features a video clip of YouTuber Nick Shirley's visit to Sweet Angel Child Care at 2740 Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis. Shirley said he was investigating suspicions that the center was taking government funding but not actually providing child care services. The host used his cell phone to search Google maps for Sweet Angel Child Care and then clicked the "call" link on the listing. The phone dials 651-201-3400, which is the public contact number (archived here) for the office of Minnesota's governor. The call was answered by a recorded message that said:
Thank you for contacting the office of Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. Our office is located at 130 state capitol at 75 Reverend...
A Google search listing does not necessarily reflect a business's official information. Phone numbers can be changed with a few clicks by someone else, and Google's automated review process can fail to catch a scammer hijacking a business listing. This analysis titled "Hacking a Business Phone Number on a Google Listing Is (Still) Easy" (archived here) includes a demonstration on how that can happen.
The @JakeCan72 X post included a link (archived here) to a Google search for "Sweet Angel Childcare Minneapolis" to support the claim that Sweet Angel Child Care's number pointed to the governor's office. In fact, there was no telephone number given when we clicked on it at the time of writing.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google.com)
The "call" button that was visible on the listing in the @conservativeimmigrant video on December 28 was missing on December 30.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google.com)
A more reliable way to see a business's telephone number would be to check a database that cannot be manipulated by someone not connected to the business. The Minnesota Department of Human Services has an official record of all licensed child care facilities in the state, including Sweet Angel Child Care (archived here). It has the center's number as 612-721-1133. There was no answer when Lead Stories called the number on December 30, 2025.
