The U.S. funded several international organizations and did not require any of them to report fraud in the year of the election.
A holiday light display with a Grinch theme cost Dallas taxpayers $30,000 and change for the Dallas Police to secure the street.
A focus on zombie programs, programs that never die no matter how old they are, because Congress doesn't want to kill them.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the primary health insurance manager in New York, overpaid on claims to the tune of more than $19 million.
In a typical USAID failure, a program to aid Afghani families of civilians killed in the war lost most of its money to waste.
A Somali business overbilled Medicaid in Maine, but continues as Medicaid-eligible after three audits already found questionable numbers.
Texas Southern University has not had an audit since 2006 and has not counted its own inventory since 2019.
The North Carolina lottery was supposed to fund education, but only 16 percent of "house winnings" have gone to schools.
Taxpayers found themselves forced to pay for a 2011 study of sexual hookups online, using Tinder and other social media.
Did Mendocino County, California, make several illegal gifts, after running a deficit three budget cycles in a row?