The officer in charge of teaching VA staff the proper way to award government contracts took $4.6 million in illicit spa and other gifts.
The National Science Foundation once spent three hundred thousand dollars on social media promotion of national parks - to park visitors.
Spending for the DOD (Department of Defense) is not transparent and has no checks on excesses to satisfy contractors or politicians.
The 9/11 memorial has lost money since its inception, but still manages to pay near-million-dollar salaries to its top brass.
The VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) wasted millions on costly conferences with outlandish perquisites for attendees.
A California charter school district listed a professional baseball stadium as one of its schools, in the most colorful example of fraud.
Several Massachusetts sheriffs' offices spent at least twenty-one thousand dollars on hotel stays at casinos.
The North Amityville Fire Department spent nearly seven thousand dollars on a hotel stay 11 miles away from its firehouse.
The federal government developed a cost-cutting system that costs big bucks and almost no one wants to use it.
In 2011 the United States government spent over twenty million dollars subsidizing cotton and its marketing abroad.