Members of Congress have demanded a record $31 million in earmarks, more than three-quarters of them from Republicans.
Spending is out of control at a Florida state college where Governor Ron DeSantis appointed most of its trustees.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson returned trifling sums to campaign contributors who then got multimillion-dollar city business.
A detective convicted of multiple fraud counts will still keep his pension, though he used his position as part of his frauds.
The Census Bureau spent $2.5 mllion in 2010 to advertise on the Super Bowl, and the ad laid one of the event's biggest bombs.
The Biden administration is on track to make more than a trillion dollars, a new four-year record, in improper payments.
The San Antonio Zoo will spend $500,000 planting trees for apes - money intended to replace trees cut down during construction.
The State of Nevada spent 10 percent of its COVID-19 relief funds on businesses that had no right to receive any such largesse.
The National Science Foundation once spent $440,000 on research into online dating and how that affects its practitioners.
Florida hospitals admit to spending millions of dollars caring for persons who are not legally in this country.