Waste, Fraud and Abuse
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Taxpayer watchdog calls for accountability after helicopter prom controversy in Chicago
Controversy stems from a May 8 helicopter landing at Roesner Park in Markham.
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King County Regional Homeless Authority admits failures, shifts blame for funding woes
While KCRHA leaders admit to these internal failures in their response report, they argue that they cannot fix the system alone.
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Ohio finds $1M in taxpayer funded childcare overpayments in Ohio
The centers no longer receiving state funding following are in Franklin, Cuyahoga and Hamilton counties – the state’s three largest counties and home to Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, respectively.
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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
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USDA spends $2.5 million attempting to create 'superior' new varieties of potato
There are 200 varieties of potato in the U.S.
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NIH spent $7 million developing a 'smart toilet' that videotapes its users
The technology was developed by Stanford researchers to help with early cancer detection.
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Casinos, cruises and Costco: How federal workers abuse their travel credit cards
Recent $40,000 shopping spree by DOT employee who never went on official travel mirrors years of similar abuses seen government-wide.
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State Department spent $200,000 to promote gender equity among Costa Rican police
Grant to promote diversity initiative in foreign police force comes as activist demands to "defund police" squeeze police budgets in U.S.
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DOE spent more than $500 million on solar power plant that repeatedly stumbled
The Crescent Dunes plant in Nevada is a tale of government mismanagement and continued wasteful spending in the face of failure.