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The VA (Department of Veterans' Affairs) paid for phantom travel to the tune of a billion dollars from 2018 to 2024.
A certain woman in Austin, Texas held two jobs, one each with the city and state, with overlapping hours, and never told anyone.
In 2021 alone, private insurers scammed Medicare out of $462 million through false diagnoses of stroke, wildly inconsistent with treatment.
A North Dakota woman stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants for after school programs that never happened.
In 2012, the government spent nearly a million present-day dollars studying those who watch a lot of reruns on television.
The Suffolk County Police Department settled with seven officers, all of whom they should have fired immediately.
El Paso Schools bought school smartboards, and servers to run them, for $3.1 million, and no one knew what to do with them.
In 2012 the US military actually spent over a million dollars researching how to create beef jerky at a low price.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) handed a contract to run its largest detention center to a "firm" of 39 working out of a house.
A school superintendent, asked to resign before his first day after doubts surfaced about his competency, still got paid for a full year.
