The Orange County (California) supervisor used his job to get a sweetheart deal for a friend, worth $275,000.
The chief revenue raiser in the Mississippi House of Representatives takes pork barrel spending to an absurd and outrageous new level.
A Chicago nonprofit received $50 million while an abused foster-child center allowed sexual assault and even trafficking to go on.
The Sawyer Bridge in New Hampshire got hundreds of thousands in Obama stimulum money in 2009, yet no one can cross it.
Improper payments to non-entitled persons and entities set a record in numbers and total volume – a sorry record of waste and abuse.
State governments across the USA have $811 billion in debt that exceeds their assets, mainly from unfunded pension liabilities.
NASA must start tracking how many people come to its headquarters to work, and how many work online and at a distance.
New York State insists that small towns and some counties share government services, like courts - and everything ends up costing more.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
Members of Congress have demanded a record $31 million in earmarks, more than three-quarters of them from Republicans.