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Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., will introduce a bill to give independent journalist Nick Shirley the Congressional Medal of Honor for his work in exposing alleged fraud schemes involving members of the Somali community in Minnesota.<\/a><\/p>\n

“<\/i>I want to thank and acknowledge the independent reporters Nick Shirley and Dave Hock, who broke this story wide open,” Crane said at an Oversight Committee Hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I’m introducing a bill to award Nick Shirley with the Congressional Medal for his explosive work in exposing astronomical fraud in Minnesota.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Shirley, a video journalist who posts his work to social media and YouTube, has visited several daycare, medical and benefits facilities in the North Star State in recent weeks, uncovering scores of providers that had bare bones setups and were largely devoid of activity despite receiving millions in government funding.<\/p>\n

Many of the programs actively turned Shirley away when he asked if he could sign up to receive services from them.<\/p>\n

While Shirley\u2019s work only covered a handful of cases, it highlighted what the schemes looked like on the ground amid congressional probes about how the state had racked up mountains of losses<\/a> to fraud.<\/p>\n

According to recent investigations, Minnesota could have lost as much as $9 billion through fraud operations<\/a> like the ones uncovered by Shirley.<\/p>\n

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Crane said Shirley’s video footage had exposed unique insights into Minnesota\u2019s lack of oversight and how easy it had been to expose some of the schemes\u2019 operations.<\/p>\n

“The reason I’m doing this is because the American people are sick and tired of this, and they’re sick and tired of mainstream media not covering any of it,” Crane said.<\/p>\n

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Crane said the work started by Shirley would have to continue. In his view, it posed bigger questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The biggest question that most Americans have is this: is this incompetence at the executive level with the governor and attorney general \u2014 or are they involved?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-moves-award-congressional-medal-journalist-who-exposed-minnesota-fraud <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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