Fraud, Coverups, and Congress
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity shines a spotlight on citizen journalist Nick Shirley and the explosive fraud investigations he has helped expose in California, while warning about new efforts to punish the very people uncovering government waste and corruption. The hour also digs into the growing political and legal fallout around Eric Swalwell, questions about congressional accountability, and the broader culture fight over transparency and truth. It is a fast-moving episode about fraud, power, media suppression, and the institutions Americans are increasingly being told not to challenge.
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| 0:13.7 | So I have a lot of admiration, and we've had on radio and TV. |
| 0:18.9 | Citizen journalist, Nick Shirley, young man. He was at the heart of exposing |
| 0:25.0 | all of the Somali fraud and daycare centers and so on and so forth in Minnesota. And then he |
| 0:33.3 | went out to California, Gavin Newsom's Marxist Utopia, and he even found a lot more fraud there |
| 0:41.2 | than he found in Minnesota, which is saying a lot. Now, you would think that a state would be happy |
| 0:47.4 | that somebody cared enough to discover the misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, but that's not the case at all. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, unfortunately, and we'll ask Nick about this in a second. Unfortunately, I've read that |
| 1:01.8 | his security needs have gone up exponentially, which is frightening, especially in a day |
| 1:08.2 | and age of assassination culture, and right after Charlie Kirk and after two |
| 1:13.0 | assassination attempts against Donald Trump, it's not a good feeling. I've lived it. I've been there. |
| 1:17.7 | It sucks. And anyway, so he uncovered the Learning Center issue and he's now done the same in California. |
| 1:24.9 | Now, here's where it gets very interesting is California right |
| 1:29.6 | now is trying to pass a bill that basically would criminalize investigative journalism, |
| 1:36.9 | uh, and classify it as a misdemeanor. And what's so out, and by the way, possible imprisonment |
| 1:43.8 | and content take down, forget about |
| 1:46.4 | freedom of speech, and anyway, it's Assembly Bill 2624, and this only happened after he exposed |
| 1:55.7 | all this waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption by immigrant groups in this case in California. |
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