The federal government bought golf carts and similar apparent fripperies for a total of $8.4 million in FY 2025.
A failing Texas charter school paid its superintendent (principal) nearly $900K per year in salary and bonuses.
In 2012 the National Science Foundation funded the creation of a video game called prom week, with AI (artificial intelligence) players.
The General Services Administration, in charge of federal buildings, doesn't monitor the spending by consultants to study its own buildings.
The City Manager of Rocky Mount, North Carolina burned through $78.2 million of city funds, a pattern he has followed for many years.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) lent new meaning to the phrase "limousine liberal" by charging taxpayers the most for limousines.
The Caring for Denver Foundation billed taxpayers $28,200 for meals and alcoholic drinks, and its board pretends not to know about it.
West Virginia bought over 1000 oversized Internet routers, each capable of handling tens of thousands of users - to handle one machine each.,
The cost to renovate Boston's White Stadium, which belongs to Boston Public Schools, has almost tripled in two years.
The federal debt held by the public will soon exceed 108 percent of Gross Domestic Product, thus setting a record.