The sheriff of Bates County formed an equestrian unit, but has used those horses only once for law enforcement.
In 2009 the United States Postal Service ordered a billion commemorative stamps featuring The Simpsons TV show.
Maryland's SNAP program gives food stamps to felony convicts, the estates of dead beneficiaries, and in one case to a lottery winner.
The New York City Transit Authority, instead of separating recyclables from non-recyclable trash, is comingling it instead.
A town clerk and treasurer embezzled town funds to buy a puppy, a sofa, and many more items with a total value of more than $675,000.
A North Carolina housing authority director pleaded guilty to defrauding a federally funded program after defrauding her agency.
City officials in Cary, North Carolina, spent lavishly on some bizarre entertainments and high-end accommodations.
Oakland, California spent two million dollars in 2024 to cite people for illegal trash dumping, but collected only sixteen thousand dollars.
The Antarctic Program today spends less than 20 percent of its budget supporting scientific research, and the rest on overhead.
School districts nationwide lost nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to various fraud schemes and have recovered only a fraction of this.