A government contractor hired employees from its parent companies, paid exorbitant salaries, and charged the government for moving expenses.
The Department of Education had a reputation as a waste of money fifteen years ago, when Tom Coburn exposed two particularly bad programs.
New York City homeless shelters pay some of their executives up to a million dollars a year at taxpayer expense.
The DoD (Department of Defense) normally binge spends in September (Fiscal Year End), but September 2024 was their worst performance.
Even before the wildfires, the overpaying of public servants in Los Angeles was a scandal by any definition.
The city of Chicago will pay fifty-five percent of a settlement of a free-speech lawsuit against one of its aldermen.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s EV promotion road trip exceeded expense allowances for hotels and, ironically, gasoline.
In 2010, a Washington State town spent federal funds to build a walking bridge across a river that already had a crossing.
Nearly three in ten federal government contracts in FY 2024 were no-bid contracts, and some contractors performed very poorly.
The light rail project in Austin, Texas already costs more than projected and is barely more than a third of its planned length.