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A North Carolina housing authority director pleaded guilty to defrauding a federally funded program after defrauding her agency.
In 2012 Baldwin County in Alabama used a half-million-dollar federal grant to buy surveillance cameras that were too smart to use.
In 2012, the government spent nearly a million present-day dollars studying those who watch a lot of reruns on television.
In 2012 the US military actually spent over a million dollars researching how to create beef jerky at a low price.
The Department of Justice has unspent money for anti-violence grants, at least $77.5 million worth, sitting idle from bureaucratic failure.
Grants Pass, Oregon, in 2012, insisted on artistic bus stops, and applied for a federal grant - and the grant process made them cost more.
In 2012 the Michigan State Police placed talking urinal cakes in two hundred bars in Michigan, for $11,000 - courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
The Interior Department spent billions for drought relief, but the money is listed as "miscellaneous obligations," obscuring any detail.
In 2012 Perdue University took a six-figure federal grant to produce a study on how to make the game of golf easier to learn.
PepsiCo received $1.3 million in federal subsidies in 2012, plus more from New York State, to produce greek yogurt - and failed anyway.
