Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., arrives for the House Homeland Security Committee markup hearing in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, Jan. 30, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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.
Many of the programs actively turned Shirley away when he asked if he could sign up to receive services from them.
While Shirley’s 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 to fraud.
According to recent investigations, Minnesota could have lost as much as $9 billion through fraud operations like the ones uncovered by Shirley.
Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., speaks to the press during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 13, 2023. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)
Crane said the work started by Shirley would have to continue. In his view, it posed bigger questions.
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"The biggest question that most Americans have is this: is this incompetence at the executive level with the governor and attorney general — or are they involved?"
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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