Topline: The federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud every year, according to a new study from the Government Accountability Office.
The National Drugs Intelligence Center (NDIC) took millions of taxpayer dollars, and everyone knew every dollar was wasted.
Topline: The City of Denver is considering revising its ethics code after a councilwoman’s spending spree of over $15,000 was ruled “reckless” but not a “technical...
Topline: The Statue of Liberty is supposed to be a symbol of democracy and freedom, but a new inspector general report claims that millions of dollars...
Topline: A San Francisco nonprofit showed “gross fiscal noncompliance” and “wasteful practices” after receiving $240 million in grants, loans and subsidies from the city, according to...
Topline: The assistant city manager in Austin, Texas stopped working four months before his retirement but kept collecting his taxpayer salary anyway, netting $85,000 at the...
Topline: An instance of San Diego Unified school district spending a $3 million federal grant on employee bonuses instead of low-income students was just the start...
Topline: The Chinese government refuses to repay over $1 trillion of decades-old bonds held by private American citizens, even though the U.S. is still making payments...
Topline: Two former California transit employees used $50,000 of taxpayer money to build secret apartments inside two train stations, allegedly for their own personal convenience.
The National Science Foundation doubled down on a wasteful Chinese video game research project by spending nearly three times as much.