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The 2025 improper payments report is out, and it shows bad payments running to $186 billion, most of it by Medicaid.
In 2012 the US Department of Agriculture awarded $300,000 to an Idaho fish company to boost the sales of caviar.
Trustees at eight public universities in Utah don't know of their authority (and responsibility) to evaluate their respective presidents.
The GSA Advantage system is subject to tremendous overpayment for small purchases, because its staff won't research fair prices.
The State of Illinois has $4.5 billion in earmarks in its budget, and these are easier to slip in than are earmarks in the federal budget.
A nonprofit in Connecticut took taxpayers' money and couldn't even keep track of its funds, losing $300,000 to wire fraud.
Robosquirrel - a stuffed squirrel with a robotic tail - came about from a $325,000 federal grant to two California universities in 2012.
Federal phone and Internet subsidies intended for low-income people are in fact paying the subscriptions of dead customers.
Different States have used the welfare program Temporaryh Assistance to Needy Families to finance many things other than needy families.
A high-school principal dined on steak and lobster and reimbursed himself with funds intended for a school club.
