Topline: A San Francisco nonprofit showed “gross fiscal noncompliance” and “wasteful practices” after receiving $240 million in grants, loans and subsidies from the city, according to...
Topline: The assistant city manager in Austin, Texas stopped working four months before his retirement but kept collecting his taxpayer salary anyway, netting $85,000 at the...
Topline: An instance of San Diego Unified school district spending a $3 million federal grant on employee bonuses instead of low-income students was just the start...
Topline: The Chinese government refuses to repay over $1 trillion of decades-old bonds held by private American citizens, even though the U.S. is still making payments...
Topline: Two former California transit employees used $50,000 of taxpayer money to build secret apartments inside two train stations, allegedly for their own personal convenience.
The National Science Foundation doubled down on a wasteful Chinese video game research project by spending nearly three times as much.
The City of Denver cut its budget by $5 million - in services, not bloated high-end salaries - to pay for free migrant housing.
The United States government has sent $1.2 billion to UNRWA, a UN agency with the backing of HAMAS, which cooperates with it.
In 2008, Capitol restaurants ran $2 million in the red and forced taxpayers to balance their books, according to a now-decased Senator.
Virginia taxpayers could spend $1.4 billion on a new stadium, though its teams have a perfectly good arena in Washington, D.C.