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A Chicago nonprofit received $50 million while an abused foster-child center allowed sexual assault and even trafficking to go on.
The Sawyer Bridge in New Hampshire got hundreds of thousands in Obama stimulum money in 2009, yet no one can cross it.
The film Joker Folie a Deux cost California $20 million in uncollected taxes to get made, an example of bad film tax credit policy.
State governments across the USA have $811 billion in debt that exceeds their assets, mainly from unfunded pension liabilities.
New York State insists that small towns and some counties share government services, like courts - and everything ends up costing more.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
Members of Congress have demanded a record $31 million in earmarks, more than three-quarters of them from Republicans.
Spending is out of control at a Florida state college where Governor Ron DeSantis appointed most of its trustees.
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.
