A failed shopping mall owes more than a million dollars in unpaid taxes, but local officials might not be able to collect them.
IRS computers became “inoperable,” and remain so, after a contractor did some computer maintenance for a whopping $1.5 million fee.
An attorney in Syracuse, New York actually billed her county for 33 hours worked in one day for a public-defender program.
The former head of the United States Secret Service made sure to pay himself a bonus while regular agents wait for their bonuses.
Obama’s EPA found that carbon dioxide was a pollutant that endangered public health. Lee Zeldin has rescinded that – but what next?
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.