The IRS suffers delays in enforcement actions against people who fail to file their taxes (and sometimes accuses people falsely of this).
The Oklahoma Mental Health Department spent more than six million dollars in planning a mental-health campus they never built.
Doctor Mehmet Oz, now head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has cut off several billers for demonstrable fraud.
The Veterans' Affairs hospital system incurred millio ns in cost overruns due to preventable delays in construction of one hospital.
Several independent music record label executives took a world tour worth more than a quarter-million dollars in 2013.
Medicare reimburses for organ harvesting and transplantation, but wasted hundreds of millions on organs that didn't serve Medicare patients.
A healthcare consulting firm demanded payment from the State of Illinois of millions of dollars to cover hours when people were not working.
Thirteen years ago the government had an agency that essentially duplicated the services of Google and other search engines.
Tulsa Public Schools, at the direction of one of its executives, hired that executive's firm to do roof repairs that never happened.
HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) spent nearly half a trillion on 18 programs, with little to show for it.