Lawyers are raking in exhorbitant fees from ultimately failed defenses of wrongful convictions in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois.
Social Security and Medicare will require $193.6 trillion, even after collection of all payroll taxes, or it will run dry in 2033.
Maryland routinely pays excess overtime with no attempt to monitor who is claiming it without good work-related reason.
Texas, known for outsized projects, institutions, and egos, is also known for outsized public school debt and a Robin Hood style funding plan.
William Webster designed a medical marijuana system for Alabama, but no treatment has resulted. Now Alabama hired Webster to defend it.
In 2012 NASA tried to launch a video game for iPads, but it crashed and burned - burning through $1.5 million in the process.
The two senior officials of Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) public schools took an African safari - for professional development!
Congress requested $34 billion in secret military earmarks to steer war production to select Congressional districts.
In New York City, a thermostat repairer working in Corrections (city jails) can earn $325,000 with overtime pay.
Fraud in government programs is rampant, and citizen sleuths can detect it with very little trouble. The trouble is, few people care.