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An attorney in Syracuse, New York actually billed her county for 33 hours worked in one day for a public-defender program.
The State of Illinois subsidized its State Fair to the tune of $140 million or more, by robbing other funds and agencies.
In 2011 the Commerce Department dropped two million dollars on a federal grant for a wine education center in Washington State.
Two hospital CEOs each made a bad real-estate sale-leaseback deal and stuck taxpayers with the expense of bailouts.
The State Department spent over a million dollars on 14 swimming pools at American embassies and mission residences.
Earmarks, even after Congress removed them from last year's appropriations bills, are back, from Republicans and Democrats alike.
A woman who defrauded Medicaid, for which she was not eligible, still did less damage than the total volume of such fraud.
The National Institutes of Health actually spent money getting quail high on cocaine, to find out how cocaine affects their sex drive.
Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has identified thirteen federally funded construction projects with cost overruns totalling $163 billion.
The head of a Utah nonprofit spent $2.8 million in federal and state grants to take one of the most expensive vacations imaginable.
