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Keeping you honest tonight. california grilled legislators after a year-long investigation by cnn in the center for investigative reporter. if you're a regular viewer of the program, you know the hearing centered on allegations of fraud in california's fraud program. a program that receives millions of your taxpayer dollars as well. our investigation found fraud so egregious, so bad that as a result, 174 drug rehab locations were suspended with some even shut down. cnn's drew griffin repeatedly for a long time tried to ask the people in charge of the program why they weren't doing more to stop...

So today lawmakers grilled them. we were there following up on our year-long investigation that's already shut down a lot of clinics. also a rapist is free tonight after serving just a month for his crime. that's right, a month. his victim was 14 years old and she later killed herself. the judge in the case described the victim as quote older than her chronological age." we begin, though, with breaking news tonight out of kenya. tonight kenyan authorities say they have a man in custody who they believe is one of the terrorists who attacked the nairobi shopping mall. he was caught trying to esc...

We are sorry. >> reporter: while legislators grilled douglas on why it took a news report to get the agency to act, the state has confirmed it is in fact acting. >> the system didn't work well, it was a fractured system. there were systematic failures within the state. it is true that many of the problems came to light through investigative reporting. >> reporter: 64 criminal cases are being investigated through the state's department of justice. 174 clinic sites have been suspended including every one exposed in our series. did he call back and say he's not coming? this past july, cnn exposed...

Keeping them honest. california legislators grilled diplomats from the drug rehab industry. if you note hearings centered on allegations of fraud in california's drug rehab program, a program that receives millions of your taxpayer dollars as well. our investigation found fraud so egregious, so bad that as a result 174 drug rehab locations were suspended with some even shut down. cnn's drew griffin repeatedly a long time tried to ask the people in charge of the program why they weren't doing more to stop the fraud. his reporting uncovered. nearly every turn, however, people just didn't want to...

This past july cnn and the center for gettive reporting exposed widespread fraud in the nation's largest medicaid system. we found that in the last two years half the nearly 186 million dollar spent on drug medi-c medi-cal, about $94 million, went to clinics that have shown questionable billing practices or signs of fraud. >> personally as a physician who cares for children on medi-cal, i'm outraged to learn people are cheating taxpayers. >> reporter: dr. richard pan who heads the state's health care committee today says as a physician himself he's offended the fraud was allowed to go on and h...