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A former Medicaid employee in Alabama defrauded the program of more than a hundred thousand dollars over five years.
Las Vegas got a $697,000 federal grant (worth nearly a million today) to place decorative rocks along one of its highways in 2011.
A South Carolina sheriff spent over forty-four thousand dollars in county funds on peraonal perks and a nepotistic hire of his son.
Mississippi sent more than a billion dollars to nonprofits with no requirement to document receipt or spending of these funds.
A neurosurgeon who almost lost his medical license still managed to collect more than three quarters of a million dollars as a pension.
The highest-paid plumber in (and for) New York City made $360,000 last year, almost as much as a Presidential salary.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a federal grant to a California university to develop a video game to teach evolution.
Several federal employees appear on the government payroll twice or three times claiming work for multiple agencies.
Baltimore City Public Schools spent nearly five-eights of a million dollars on lavish staff appreciation events, despite poor performance.
In 2011, the Milwaukee Public Museum used a federal grant to make 3-D renderings of Egyptian mummies, in a display available for five months.
