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Las Vegas got a $697,000 federal grant (worth nearly a million today) to place decorative rocks along one of its highways in 2011.
A South Carolina sheriff spent over forty-four thousand dollars in county funds on peraonal perks and a nepotistic hire of his son.
Mississippi sent more than a billion dollars to nonprofits with no requirement to document receipt or spending of these funds.
A neurosurgeon who almost lost his medical license still managed to collect more than three quarters of a million dollars as a pension.
The highest-paid plumber in (and for) New York City made $360,000 last year, almost as much as a Presidential salary.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded a federal grant to a California university to develop a video game to teach evolution.
Several federal employees appear on the government payroll twice or three times claiming work for multiple agencies.
UMass Amherst (University of Massachusetts) has at least two antisemitic professors who receive public funds.
Illinois corrections officers have a habit of swapping shifts to stay home during working hours, then come in after hours to work overtime.
Baltimore City Public Schools spent nearly five-eights of a million dollars on lavish staff appreciation events, despite poor performance.
