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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.
IRS computers became “inoperable,” and remain so, after a contractor did some computer maintenance for a whopping $1.5 million fee.
An attorney in Syracuse, New York actually billed her county for 33 hours worked in one day for a public-defender program.
The State of Illinois subsidized its State Fair to the tune of $140 million or more, by robbing other funds and agencies.
