In April 2026, a rumor circulated online that Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu of California accused senior White House adviser Stephen Miller of fraud, claiming he funneled $6.2 billion through the Cayman Islands into offshore accounts.
A YouTube video (archived) with hundreds of thousands of views claimed that Lieu said during a congressional hearing, "Mr. Miller, on April 3 of this year, $6.2 billion was transferred from a DHS emergency operations account to a corporate entity registered in the Cayman Islands. ...I have a very simple question: who received $6.2 billion?" Many commenters appeared to believe the claim.
The rumor also spread across other platforms, including Facebook, Threads and Reddit. Snopes readers contacted us to ask whether it was true.
We first used search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo to locate possible evidence from credible sources about the alleged corruption findings. If the story was true, journalists with reputable news outlets, such as The Associated Press or Reuters, would have widely reported on it. That was not the case.
The rumor was fictional. It originated from a YouTube channel that uses artificial intelligence tools to create inspiring or shocking stories about public figures. Therefore, we've rated this claim false.
The earliest version of the claim we could find appeared in a video (archived) published by the YouTube channel "Homeless People" on March 31, 2026.
From the first lines of the video, there are clear signs of AI generation, including the narrator's robotic delivery
The video's script also uses dramatic, emotionally-charged language — a common indicator of AI-generated content. At one point, the AI narrator describes Miller's face as "not pale, not shocked, still...like someone who just realized that the one thing he hoped would never surface had just appeared on a screen in front of 40 cameras."
Finally, the video's visuals are deceptive. The footage is actually a looped clip from an unrelated January 2026 hearing where Lieu questioned Special Counsel Jack Smith (minute 2:43:44), who testified on his team's federal criminal investigations into U.S. President Donald Trump. The hearing had nothing to do with Miller allegedly committing fraud.
Snopes has previously investigated another false claim stemming from the same YouTube channel that Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky similarly accused Miller of funneling $890 million through the Cayman Islands.