Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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Big Tab: USDA says California owes $1.4 billion because of food stamp errors
The error rate accounts for $3.8 million lost every single day.
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Big Tab: OMB says fraud losses 'in the hundreds of billions' annually
Government Accountability Office estimated in April 2024 the government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.
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GOP lawmaker wants Ilhan Omar records after fraud arrest
Eidleh, who was originally indicted in September 2022, was taken into custody in Somalia after fleeing the U.S.
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Pain clinic CEO ran $150 million health care fraud scheme that helped fuel the opioid crisis
Mashiyat Rashid defrauded U.S. taxpayers while fueling the Midwest opioid crisis by prescribing patients Oxycodone in exchange for painful injections.
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NIH spent $1.75 million on proprietary research that was funneled to the Chinese government
Lin Yang is the latest federally funded scientist to be indicted as a part of the Chinese government's Thousand Talents Program
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USPS spent $110 million reprocessing mail they had misrouted over seven months in 2020
A new inspector general report details the basic workplace failures that have resulted in costly efforts to redirect misrouted mail.
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Cleveland councilman arrested after indictment for allegedly taking money from federal program
Johnson for eight years allegedly sought to be reimbursed by a federal program for constituent duties he didn't perform.
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FAA grants $1.2M in COVID relief to airport for Martha's Vineyard's rich, famous and connected
The island airport seasonally receives the private jets of streams of politicians, members of the media elite, and celebrities.
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HHS to reopen barely used $300 million adolescent migrant 'overflow facility'
The facility was used for just one month in the summer of 2019.
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Federal government spent nearly $80 million funding the shuttered Kennedy Center in 2020
Just after receiving coronavirus stimulus funding, the center furloughed the majority of its employees.
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NIH spending $2.5 million attempting to make adults less nervous about the dentist
It is the largest NIH grant that has ever been given to Temple University's Dental school
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Fish and Wildlife Service spent $13.5 million on yacht facilities for luxury marinas
The agency spent millions building out luxury marinas.
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Pentagon spent $174 million on drones for Afghan army that now can’t be accounted for
A large portion of the Taliban's armory is comprised of missing and abandoned American weapons given to Afghan forces