Texas Southern University has not had an audit since 2006 and has not counted its own inventory since 2019.
The North Carolina lottery was supposed to fund education, but only 16 percent of "house winnings" have gone to schools.
Taxpayers found themselves forced to pay for a 2011 study of sexual hookups online, using Tinder and other social media.
The federal government has been fearfully lax in overseeing the payment of royalties for oil and gas drilling on federal land.
Did Mendocino County, California, make several illegal gifts, after running a deficit three budget cycles in a row?
The Department of Housing and urban Development might have let shady groups defraud its rental assistance program of up to $5.8 billion.
California spent nearly five million dollars on cell phones for State employees, but most of the phones stayed out of use.
In 2006, a federal grant program for fire departments ended up funding many projects having nothing to do with fighting fires.
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released his eleventh annual "Festivus" report detailing $1.6 trillion in controversial federal spending.
Government grants for paying indigent people's heating bills went instead to the operating expenses of the grant recipient.