The NYPD (New York Police Department) overtime pay system let a lieutenant draw more pay than the Commissioner.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has established his Festivus Report as a rival to Tom Coburn's Wastebook, identifying trillions in waste.
Rappers Lil Wayne and Chris Brown received millions of COVID relief funds and spent it on personal expenses.
Southern Arizona Legal Aid misused $50,000 in grant funds to pay staff salaries, and did not keep adequate spending records.
Many times, disaster funds have gone to one-shot parties for the victims, instead of rebuilding and repair help they could have used.
The United States buys billions of dollars' worth of military supplies from foreign countries, a practice that hurts U.S. industry.
A Boston City Councillor, facing trial for corruption, will use a public defender, though she draws a six-figure salary.
Congress funded 1,264 programs with no legal mandate, amounting to almost 8 percent of the total federal budget.
The GSA (General Services Administration) spent $5.3 billion in one month – last of the fiscal year, including use-it-or-lose-it spending.
In 2010, the government paid a leftist professor 3/16 of a million dollars to create a video game in protest of capitalism.