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Ghost college students collected a billion dollars in financial aid to which they were not entitled, according to one DOEd estimate.
The Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff's Office apend $163 million, intended for fighting racial discrimination, on golf carts and such.
In 2011 the federal government gave the Oregon Cheese Guild a $50,400 grant to promote an Oregon Cheese Trail.
The United States government is running a deficit of $1.8 trillion as of 2025, smaller than last years, but negligibly so.
A $125 million school bond issue will go to build a new domed stadium for district football games, while academic standings suffer.
Thirty-seven Alabama county employees got bonuses from a bingo fund, bonuses they were not eligible to receive.
A former Medicaid employee in Alabama defrauded the program of more than a hundred thousand dollars over five years.
Las Vegas got a $697,000 federal grant (worth nearly a million today) to place decorative rocks along one of its highways in 2011.
A South Carolina sheriff spent over forty-four thousand dollars in county funds on peraonal perks and a nepotistic hire of his son.
Mississippi sent more than a billion dollars to nonprofits with no requirement to document receipt or spending of these funds.
