Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson returned trifling sums to campaign contributors who then got multimillion-dollar city business.
A detective convicted of multiple fraud counts will still keep his pension, though he used his position as part of his frauds.
The Census Bureau spent $2.5 mllion in 2010 to advertise on the Super Bowl, and the ad laid one of the event's biggest bombs.
The Biden administration is on track to make more than a trillion dollars, a new four-year record, in improper payments.
The San Antonio Zoo will spend $500,000 planting trees for apes - money intended to replace trees cut down during construction.
The State of Nevada spent 10 percent of its COVID-19 relief funds on businesses that had no right to receive any such largesse.
New Jersey will spend $20 million on subsidies intended to fatten directly the winnings in horse race gambling.
The National Science Foundation once spent $440,000 on research into online dating and how that affects its practitioners.
The NIH (National Institutes of Health) and its scientists received royalty payments primarily from foreign countries, like China and Russia.
Florida hospitals admit to spending millions of dollars caring for persons who are not legally in this country.