Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of

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taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. Today I'm going to tell you what I learned when I set out to

investigate how much money federal taxpayers have spent on hurricane relief for

Puerto Rico and what happened to the money. This story ends with an

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You probably remember all the news

after Hurricane Maria and Irma hit Puerto Rico almost three years ago.

The U.S. had the task of trying to responsibly distribute the most aid money ever for a natural disaster to a to And it was against this backdrop that I set out to find how much money was actually committed and spent and who got it.

So on my trip to Puerto Rico, I went to the small Puerto Rican village of Corozol and met a woman named Brenda Rodriguez,

who I found was still waiting for help, mind you this had been two years since the aid had begun to be distributed, two years after the hurricane.

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