A contractor for a backup suicide-crisis hotline for the Veterans' Affairs Department never got security clearances - but still got paid.
Consultants on California's high-speed rail project have declared at least $2 million on highly dubious travel expenses.
The IRS suffers delays in enforcement actions against people who fail to file their taxes (and sometimes accuses people falsely of this).
The Oklahoma Mental Health Department spent more than six million dollars in planning a mental-health campus they never built.
Doctor Mehmet Oz, now head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has cut off several billers for demonstrable fraud.
The Veterans' Affairs hospital system incurred millio ns in cost overruns due to preventable delays in construction of one hospital.
Several independent music record label executives took a world tour worth more than a quarter-million dollars in 2013.
Medicare reimburses for organ harvesting and transplantation, but wasted hundreds of millions on organs that didn't serve Medicare patients.
Medicare wastes billions of dollars annually on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of little or no clinical value.
A healthcare consulting firm demanded payment from the State of Illinois of millions of dollars to cover hours when people were not working.