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Week of Jul 13 – 2026 (day: 19)

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Alabama — 3 storiesAlaska — 4 storiesArizona — 9 storiesColorado — 10 storiesFlorida — 12 storiesGeorgia — 4 storiesIndiana — 4 storiesKansas — 5 storiesMaine — 5 storiesMassachusetts — 8 storiesMinnesota — 6 storiesNew Jersey — 4 storiesNorth Carolina — 14 storiesNorth Dakota — 3 storiesOklahoma — 4 storiesPennsylvania — 9 storiesSouth Dakota — 1 storyTexas — 14 storiesWyoming — 1 storyConnecticut — 4 storiesMissouri — 6 storiesWest Virginia — 5 storiesIllinois — 7 storiesNew Mexico — 6 storiesArkansas — 2 storiesCalifornia — 38 storiesDelaware — 3 storiesDistrict of Columbia — 198 storiesHawaii — 6 storiesIowa — 3 storiesKentucky — 5 storiesMaryland — 45 storiesMichigan — 4 storiesMississippi — 5 storiesMontana — 3 storiesNew Hampshire — 1 storyNew York — 21 storiesOhio — 5 storiesOregon — 2 storiesTennessee — 5 storiesUtah — 6 storiesVirginia — 21 storiesWashington — 13 storiesWisconsin — 7 storiesNebraska — 3 storiesSouth Carolina — 7 storiesIdaho — 4 storiesNevada — 3 storiesVermont — 3 storiesLouisiana — 4 storiesRhode Island — 4 stories34910124455614349114165762386354532152562113737434VT3NH1MA8RI4CT4NJ4DE3MD45DC198
Fraud
Fraud
$876.6M

KY, WV, and MD audits each found MCOs collecting monthly pr…

Fraud
$8.07M

A federal audit found over half of Colorado's Medicaid home…

Contracting
Contracting
$233.7M

The county calls year one 'significant progress.' The monit…

Fraud
$19.5M

A federal audit found 61% of sampled nursing-home Medicare…

Contracting
Contracting
$6.4M vs $20.9K

A governor vetoed 'forensic' from the audit mandate; testin…

Contracting
$19.7M

A Hawaii state audit found HTA spent $19.7M standing up isl…

Fraud
Fraud
$1.78 million

South Dakota's FY23 audit flagged the FACIS gap -- one pers…

Fraud
$20M+

A federal audit found Wisconsin approved $20 million-plus i…

Waste
Waste
$1.449B

NYPD's overtime spending has more than doubled its adopted…

Labor
$43.6M

Connecticut's Secretary of the State reported $53.2M in une…

Waste
Waste
$1.23B

Louisiana paid MCOs $1.23 billion to manage 50,299 Medicaid…

Contracting
$272.7M

DOT's watchdog found FAA skipped required Buy American clau…

Fraud
Fraud
$836.4M

A Kentucky audit found $836M in Medicaid payments made twic…

Contracting
$230K→$10K

North Dakota's private-investigator licensing board saw its…

Fraud
Fraud
$3.04M

A forensic audit found Mora County, NM diverted $3.04 milli…

Fraud
8,000 of 8,100

Nearly every automated decision on a survivor's VA death-be…

Housing
Housing
$14M vs. $0

Two of five settled defendants paid the states $7M each; Re…

Fraud
$28,478 loss

Marydel's president said hall rentals topped $100,000. Audi…

Defense
Defense
85 severe

FAA radar tracked 85 severe near-misses between planes and…

Health
$18M of $150M

States say 23andMe owes them $150 million for its 2023 gene…

Health
Health
$1,184/miner

MSHA inspects every mine on a statutory schedule and enforc…

Contracting
1,375 entries

A contractor site supporting the IRS's paperless-tax push l…

Labor
Labor
$21.68/resident

The nation's central bank, which sets interest rates, super…

Labor
39% vs 94%

The IRS matched 70% of $3.2B in unmatched tax payments to a…

Labor
Labor
$55.41/person

The IRS assesses, collects, and refunds federal taxes -- in…

Waste
$76M lost

Nebraska's health fund fell from $83.2M to $7.1M in three y…

Waste
Waste
-78%

The city's cash and investments fell from $100.7 million to…

Energy
100%

Auditors found all 45 tested LIHEAP subawards reported late…

Fraud
Fraud
$2.38/person

Congress's independent auditor: GAO tests federal programs,…

Fraud
$680,476

A spoofed email diverted a $5 million state payment to Loui…

Fraud
Fraud
$751M

New York paid out $751 million in unemployment benefits imp…

Energy
$118.2M

A state audit found North Rockland Central Schools misjudge…

Contracting
Contracting
126 → 45 staff

A May 2025 memo cut DOD's weapons tester from 126 authorize…

Transportation
12+ years

Tennessee's auditor has flagged the same Polk County violat…

Fraud
Fraud
299,604

CMS's own count of confirmed unauthorized enrollments and p…

Contracting
$11M retroactive

A Nevada audit found the state paid its opioid law firm $11…

Health
Health
$275M

$88.5M of borrowing, a $59.7M one-time accounting change, $…

Contracting
98%

A DOJ audit tested every dollar Union City, NJ spent under…

Contracting
$144,000

Sunnyslope Water District paid $144,000 -- 12x the appraisa…

Justice
$7.8M

Doña Ana County paid $7.8 million in liability claims since…

Education
$39.1M

Oklahoma's federal Single Audit found DHS paid $27.2M in un…

Labor
139 of 389

A third of Florida's local building departments filed no 20…

Contracting
$12.07M

A Utah audit found USU paid one vendor $12.07M since 2013 w…

Contracting
$1 -> $5.34M

Oroville sold city land for $1 with no performance guarante…

Labor
$1B unverified

For a sixth straight year, Georgia's own auditors can't ver…

Waste
$433.6M

Idaho stopped reconciling cash to the bank when it launched…

Waste
$1.67M

Vermont's auditor checked the state's energy-savings loan p…

Contracting
$1.1M unverified

Flagstaff's transit agency drew $23.0M in federal money in…

Housing
$44,141

An Indiana state audit found one county park employee left…

Health
$1.1B

Kansas local governments exempted $1.1B in property taxes f…

Fraud
$1.6B

An HHS audit found CMS let $1.6 billion in Medicaid payment…

Fraud
$700K-$1.2M

Kansas auditors estimate $700K-$1.2M in SNAP benefits went…

Fraud
$92M

NJ auditors found two nursing homes' owners diverted $92M f…

Fraud
$998M

BDO disclaimed five of GVI's funds, found five federal prog…

Labor
$170,310

An audit found VI taxi inspectors fell to zero, 10 licenses…

Fraud
$150,663,786

A Puerto Rico Comptroller audit found the territory paid $1…

Contracting
$191,110

RI's coastal regulator missed drawdown deadlines and forfei…

Contracting
$37,000

Montana homes near mines lose 8.4% of value, but tax assess…

Waste
$55.8M

Seattle's police overtime budget hit $55.8 million in 2026,…

Contracting
78.6%

Arizona let contract-compliance reviews lapse for 5 of 8 se…

Fraud
$12.2M over

Phoenix budgeted $45.3M for police overtime and $77M more f…

Waste
31.8%

Arkansas's state auditor found this share of tested scholar…

Waste
$264,967

State auditors found Alabama's deaf-and-blind school skippe…

Contracting
$163.1M

CNMI's auditors questioned $163 million in FY2022 federal s…

Transportation
$84.2M

Virginia's own watchdog found 3 of 6 tax breaks -- $84.2M o…

Fraud
3 years running

Delaware's auditors could not certify the state's unemploym…

Fraud
$241M

Guam's auditor found 60% of Medicaid provider payments over…

Fraud
$89,348

North Carolina's auditor found forged, duplicate, and overd…

Fraud
1,327 of 3,734

A third of Philadelphia's sampled Airbnb licenses were inac…

Health
$18M/yr

Santa Cruz's Grand Jury found the mental health department…

Health
$20.1M

Confirming balances with universities directly, auditors fo…

Health
$915,540

Minnesota's behavioral-health grant office paid $915,540 be…

Environment
48%

San Diego's own auditor found the city met 48% of its perfo…

Fraud
$460,972

LA's GSD prepaid $460,972 for lifts that never arrived, fal…

Labor
$17.3M

Ohio auditors questioned 100% of a closed college's federal…

Health
$6.35M

Detroit paid $6.35M in error-driven payroll fixes over two…

Fraud
$71.4M

Houston's police, fire, and sanitation departments blew the…

Contracting
$16.1M

Idaho's largest virtual charter school hired half its funde…

Fraud
72%

Maine tested 57 of the contracts covering $1.6B in FY2025 s…

Contracting
$10.7M

Washington paid one grantee $10.7 million in advance, break…

Contracting
$83.4M

Wisconsin's lottery fund took in $83.4 million in tax dolla…

Technology
10 of 71

A follow-up state audit found Colorado's IT office fully fi…

Labor
$1.9 billion

A state audit found Milwaukee County's $1.9B pension office…

Fraud
$492,295

A state audit found Alexandria, Indiana awarded a $492,295…

Energy
$40M swing

A Riverside County grand jury found Banning's electric util…

Fraud
$4.4B

New Jersey's police pension fund carries a $4.4B unfunded l…

Health
$32.4M

West Virginia's Medicaid plans were paid for 94,214 incarce…

Fraud
8 yrs unwatched

Michigan built a report to monitor $282.8M in yearly budget…

Defense
$126.5M

Connecticut's Angel Investor Tax Credit moved $126.5M into…

Fraud
$3.7M

A Memphis schools vendor paid its facilities chief up to $7…

Fraud
$436,180

A federal job-training grant paid $436,180 to a program dir…

Fraud
$779K+

A 2025 audit flagged a Tulsa schools executive's tie to a v…

Benefits
$1.8M-$2.8M

A Utah nonprofit misused up to $2.8M in manufacturing-grant…

Contracting
$1.79M in fees

DSS paid $1.79M in child care background-check fees state l…

Health
54% cost gap

The Sheriff reported $257 a day per inmate; a grand jury fo…

Contracting
5.4% vs. 10%

Hawaii law required 10% locally sourced school food by 2025…

Health
$32.3M

Alaska appropriated $20.7M to fix caseworker shortages at O…

Fraud
94% undocumented

Denver's auditor found 693 of 734 sampled administrative ex…

Health
$102M

EPA awarded $133M in PFAS drinking-water grants without rev…

Fraud
$32.5M

Maryland paid $32.5 million -- 85% of a $38.2 million contr…

Elections
20 years booked

The state's own evidence -- two prior systems and other age…

Contracting
Poor

The audit's own math shows the district's $202.9 million re…

Fraud
$25M

Nevada's legislative auditor found nearly $25 million in un…

Fraud
$12.2M

A federal audit sample projected a $12.2M Medicare refund f…

Labor
$601M/yr

Mississippi's actuary says its pension fund needs 25.98% of…

Fraud
$549.5M

DOJ's final settlement recovers $549.5M -- less than a thir…

Health
24/29

Rhode Island's state auditor found 24 of 29 audit findings…

Oversight
$14.15M

Clorox waited from a 2019 lab finding of bacteria in Pine-S…

Waste
$1.3M

West Virginia paid two contractors $1.3 million to build a…

Contracting
7.5%

NH's $27.7M opioid 'doorway' program tracked complete outco…

Fraud
$4.7M

Federal auditors say a Pine Bluff, Arkansas hospital was ov…

Labor
$52.79M

An internal audit found El Paso ISD's former CFO knew of a…

Contracting
$327,447

North Dakota's Racing Commission blew past its 25% Promotio…

Fraud
$4.17M

WVU Health System will pay $4.17M and build out systemwide…

Contracting
51/125

Massachusetts's prison system has met 51 of 125 mental-heal…

Contracting
83%

Auditors could not locate 50 of 60 sampled assets at Texas…

Housing
$20.8M

Turnover on Quonset Development Corp's finance team delayed…

Taxes
$2.4B

Nebraska's own model projects its tax-incentive programs wi…

Fraud
204

Two of Vermont's 14 elected sheriffs are decertified and un…

Fraud
93.5%

An HHS-OIG audit found Mississippi's fraud unit collected $…

Waste
6-7 of 12/yr

GAO found the Navy's shared hypersonic missile line can bui…

Health
$8,652 gap

DOJ questioned $12,600 in a Delaware victim-services grant;…

Health
$329.5M

HUD's nursing-home mortgage insurer cut oversight staff by…

Benefits
$474.2M

Georgia forgave $474.2M in state tax in FY2025. Its own eva…

Fraud
$19.3M

New York audited the same CVS Caremark billing error three…

Health
$5.4B

Built to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs, CMS's model progr…

Fraud
88.7%

A federal audit found all 100 sampled months of claims had…

Education
20 of 21

Massachusetts' state auditor found 20 of 21 agencies it rev…

Oversight
$425M

A federal judge blocked a weaker deal, forcing Capital One…

Fraud
$4.68B

Ohio's auditor found $857M in provider funds never reconcil…

Waste
$23,179

A Chicago homeowner's water bill after a meter transmitter…

Contracting
$48.2M

A USDA inspector general found the Forest Service awarded $…

Fraud
$171,446

CARB paid an employee's full salary 15 months after his lea…

Fraud
$440M

The DOJ won one of the largest False Claims Act verdicts ev…

Pensions
$1.4B

Allegheny County's pension fund is 40% funded and $1.4B sho…

Waste
$107.1M unspent

New Mexico's counties and cities banked $116.7M in opioid s…

Health
$2.6M

Wisconsin billed CHIP for vaccine estimates without reconci…

Labor
50:1

Virginia wrote off $300M in jobless overpayments and recove…

Contracting
$18.5M

Auditors could not sign off on the lottery's FY2024 books,…

Justice
$4.97M owed

A state audit found a Greene County, Alabama sheriff's offi…

Environment
$8.1B

Chicago's inspector general found $8.1 billion in unpaid de…

Contracting
$553.8M

New Mexico's executive committed $553.8M through 811 execut…

Transportation
$27.6M

Iowa's courts sent $27.6M into the General Fund over 4 year…

Contracting
$75M

Alaska's revenue chief committed $75M of the state's rainy-…

Labor
72.3%

Chicago built a council watchdog to check the Mayor's budge…

Fraud
$12.2M

Iowa auditors found no paperwork for 89.7% of a $13.6M coun…

Contracting
$266,100

A judge ordered Visit Harford, Harford County's tourism non…

Fraud
$131M

Texas is $131 million into rebuilding the DMV's vehicle-rec…

Fraud
$704.2M

Medicare paid $704.2M to providers billing its priciest dru…

Fraud
$7.8M

A payment system moving $860B a year in federal grants sat…

Fraud
82 of 182

Chicago's watchdog closed 8 officers' $282,639 PPP fraud ca…

Benefits
$443.1M

DHS's own analysis puts its new student-visa rule at $443.1…

Housing
58% unbilled

PHFA's $186M zero-interest housing loan program skipped 202…

Fraud
$38-53M

Kansas paid $38M-$53M in unearned at-risk school funding af…

Education
$1B

Kansas's first estimate finds $1 billion in local property…

Waste
5 of 100

OIG found Huntington PD had given out 5 of 100 devices for…

Waste
$2.82M

A Missouri audit found Morgan County spent $2.82 million th…

Waste
$120M unspent

DOE's own model found $20M would return $120M in nuclear cl…

Fraud
55%

Mississippi paid a nonprofit $250K+ to study diet among the…

Fraud
$12.5M

Orange County supervisors grew their own office budgets six…

Waste
$273,011

A federal audit found Ramsey County, MN spent $273,011 thro…

Contracting
23-pt gap

GAO recommended a fix in 2022; Education agreed. Four years…

Justice
+$1.2M

Hope Mills, N.C. drew $1.73 million from reserves in FY2025…

Fraud
$358.7M

A Maryland audit found SHA charged $358.7 million to federa…

Waste
$2.8M owed

The finding has repeated three years running. Each cycle th…

Waste
$94.7M

A Texas water district borrowed $94.7 million for a reservo…

Housing
331 days

Colorado takes 331 days to approve a rate change -- slowest…

Fraud
$3.9B

VA's flagged improper and unknown payments hit a four-year…

Waste
82% unassigned

Most of it got sorted out by fall. $2.9 million that spoile…

Health
407 of 410

A county grand jury ranked Pinole 407th of 410 California c…

Labor
$12.2M

NC hasn't met the federal unemployment-payment deadline sin…

Fraud
$1.02M

Nearly a third of a 673-person town's spending was fraudule…

Justice
$550K

A grand jury found OC's elected Treasurer withheld $550,000…

Energy
$1.6B

The Capitol's own caretaker asked Congress for $1.6 billion…

Waste
$350,000

Missouri's state auditor found Wright County borrowed $350,…

Fraud
$2.25B

Two inspectors general matched UI and SBA disaster-loan fra…

Waste
1,328

An EPA watchdog found 19% of the highest-risk hazardous-was…

Health
16% outlayed

Congress designated $39 billion in earmarks since 2022; GAO…

Contracting
$6.03M

North Dakota auditors disclaimed an opinion on Williston Ba…

Housing
$204M

Central State University committed to $204M in leases, most…

Oversight
48% of claims

Properties that flood repeatedly are 2.5% of NFIP's policie…

Benefits
$692.6M

Ohio promised auditors a fix by July 2025 for a $648M repor…

Waste
1st in 20 yrs

For the first time since 2005, the Pentagon blocked GAO's p…

Contracting
$258M

1,237 reverse-mortgage borrowers are burning through HUD's…

Health
$1.2B

North Carolina has until Dec. 31, 2026 to spend $1.2 billio…

Environment
$521M/yr

FWS/NMFS say ending ESA habitat protections saves $521M a y…

Health
$1.31B

Maryland's welfare agency booked $1.31 billion in federal m…

Waste
$1.3B

California's auditor says $1.3 billion -- two-thirds of wha…

Contracting
62%

NC's nine other largest cities average 16%. The same audit…

Fraud
$5.8B

HUD checked every rental-aid payment for the first time ins…

Waste
$109.8M

Kentucky's counties and cities have spent about a dime of e…

Health
$600.8M

PHMSA traced the 2022 Keystone pipeline rupture to a weld f…

Transportation
51%

Federal law lets transit agencies book maintenance payroll…

Contracting
$1.59B

NYC registered $1.59B in human-services contracts more than…

Defense
8 of 8

AFRH's own leadership reviewed every complaint that named i…

Health
54%

A TIGTA audit found the IRS made live chat permanent withou…

Waste
12 of 83

Amtrak's watchdog found shop planning started 15 years afte…

Contracting
6 of 10

A federal audit of 10 New York nursing homes found 6 skippe…

Fraud
$15.0M

A coding gap in Oregon's new health-plan eligibility system…

Labor
$781.2M

Colorado's labor department promised to fix this by 2024. A…

Labor
$316M

OMB parked most of a $768M education-research fund in an "U…

Defense
61%

A VA Office of Inspector General review estimated 61% of no…

Justice
37%

As caseloads surged 150%, courts leaned on in-person hearin…

Labor
$823M

PSERS' consultant says private equity cost the $85.7B fund…

Contracting
$138,736

Louisiana pays contract caseworkers at least $138,736 a yea…

Health
$213.6M

SSA's own watchdog found it still spends more collecting ov…

Defense
$1.2B

GAO found State and USAID can't produce award numbers, date…

Labor
$0.30/person

The two chamber officers who certify how Congress voted --…

Contracting
$24.49/person

The Justice Department agency that runs every federal priso…

Contracting
$180.9M

OTI has spent $100 million on the 'one-stop shop' app since…

Fraud
$31.08/person

The Justice Department's investigative arm: 56 field office…

Housing
$0

Oakland voters approved $850 million for streets and housin…

Fraud
$3.06M

OIG sampled 399 nursing-home eye claims from Medicare's top…

Transportation
$7.10/resident

The federally chartered passenger railroad that carried a r…

Housing
$29.98/person

The Labor Department's arm for unemployment insurance, job…

Housing
$0.79/resident

The independent regulator and conservator of Fannie Mae, Fr…

Labor
$14.12/person

Treasury's two currency factories: the Mint strikes the nat…

Fraud
$8.54/person

The State Department bureau that alone may legally issue a…

Transportation
$295M deficit

Jefferson County Public Schools' deficit peaked at $295 mil…

Health
$1.12/person

OPM is the federal government's HR department: it runs hiri…

Transportation
58 of 174 trips

A Missouri audit found 58 of 174 state-aircraft trips -- $3…

Labor
$7.27/resident

The bank regulator that insures deposits at 4,278 instituti…

Labor
$4.02/resident

The federal regulator that charters and supervises 1,010 na…

Environment
$14.73/person

NPS manages 433 units and 85 million acres of public land,…

Justice
10 years

The Fed's inspector general urged a unified insider-risk pr…

Transportation
$79.60/person

The federal agency that runs U.S. air traffic control and c…

Fraud
$14.03B

FTA exempted over half from its own repair-progress check a…

Energy
$1.52/resident

The independent commission that regulates wholesale electri…

Health
$3.05/person

FMCSA regulates ~800,000 motor carriers and 7.2 million CDL…

Contracting
276 controllers

Private contractors staff half the nation's airport towers…

Housing
$26.51/mortgage

HUD's housing-finance arm: FHA insures home mortgages again…

Labor
$7.89/resident

Oakland's independently elected watchdog audits every city…

Housing
$2.06/person

The nation's labor-market statistics agency: BLS's monthly…

Fraud
$7.26/recipient

The Department of Education's internal watchdog audits Fede…

Fraud
$0.28/resident

DOL-OIG audits DOL programs and investigates program fraud…

Fraud
$0.33/person

DOT's independent watchdog: audits DOT programs and investi…

Fraud
$1.14/person

The FCC licenses spectrum, runs auctions, and polices roboc…

Labor
$0.39/person

GPO prints Congress's record and publishes the daily Federa…

Health
$4.84/worker

Federal OSHA and the state plans it funds set and enforce w…

Fraud
$20.29/person

The federal agency that adjudicates citizenship, green card…

Labor
$0.38/person

OMB drafts the President's Budget and, by law, must approve…

Health
$25.80/person

EPA sets and enforces national air, water, and land polluti…

Fraud
$4.69/person

NHTSA writes the safety standards every new vehicle must me…

Labor
$48.22/borrower

The Education Department office that runs FAFSA, disburses…

Labor
$0.88/person

NLRB investigates unfair-labor-practice charges and runs un…

Contracting
$4.28/person

NWS forecasts the weather, issues storm warnings, runs the…

Labor
8 of 634

OPM's Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program drew 634 a…

Contracting
$19M

Nearly double the $10M budget: a leave-as-hours-worked loop…

Defense
$143.66/person

DOE runs the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex, 17 national labo…

Labor
$34.55/business

SBA guarantees small-business loans, backs surety bonds and…

Defense
$2.10/registrant

The federal agency that registers draft-eligible men aged 1…

Labor
$1.27/person

The EEOC investigates and resolves workplace discrimination…

Fraud
$124.02/person

GSA is the government's landlord and purchasing agent: it m…

Transportation
$0.08/person

USPS's regulator: reviews mail rates, runs the government's…

Waste
$65.5B

GAO found DOE delegated more contractor authority and cut i…

Fraud
$1.12/person

The FTC enforces antitrust law and consumer-protection rule…

Labor
$2.05/person

The CFPB polices consumer financial products and services -…

Transportation
8 years old

TSA's roadmap dates to 2018, due for an update by 2026. FAA…

Waste
$39M

Irvine's own five-year forecast shows its budget deficit re…

Environment
$26.5M

Chicago's inspector general flagged this exact problem in 2…

Health
16%

GAO found agencies had obligated 61% of the $39B Congress d…

Health
426 FTE by 2036

DCYF's own study found it needs 426 more staff. Washington…

Transportation
$11.73/traveler

The federal agency that screens travelers and bags at U.S.…

Labor
$96.49/person

FEMA runs the Disaster Relief Fund and coordinates the fede…

Defense
$1.33/person

NARA preserves federal records, runs Presidential Libraries…

Labor
$6.42/person

The SEC polices U.S. securities markets -- in FY2025 it ove…

Labor
$17.39/person

PBGC insures pensions for about 29.5 million American worke…

Health
$189.32/person

The federal agency that pays Social Security and SSI benefi…

Labor
$0.31/person

The federal judiciary's own administrative arm: it runs pay…

Health
$19.4M

UConn Health paid $19.4 million in overtime over two fiscal…

Justice
$0.30/person

19 volunteer San Francisco residents who investigate city a…

Labor
0 of 483

A Treasury watchdog found the IRS flagged 483 large partner…

Transportation
$262.67/person

USPS delivers mail and packages to every U.S. address six d…

Contracting
$14.80/person

New York City's elected auditor and CFO: it registered $42.…

Contracting
95%

Insurers denied nursing-home care, then admitted 95% were w…

Contracting
$2.21/person

Minnesota's own state-government watchdog: OLA audits agenc…

Labor
$0.35/person

BEA measures the U.S. economy for the government -- GDP, tr…

Labor
$30.49/person

ICE investigates and removes: 21,757 budgeted staff who arr…

Benefits
496,775

OMB gave the public 45 days to weigh in on rewriting federa…

Health
$22.2M

Alaska cut $13.5 million from prison spending to curb overt…

Health
$72.4M

Idaho's General Fund is projected to end FY2026 with $72.4…

Contracting
$1.2B/yr

Nuclear-lab contractors priced NNSA's workforce needs at $1…

Energy
$0.39/person

EIA collects, analyzes, and forecasts U.S. and world energy…

Labor
$0.40/person

Congress's own research service: CRS answers confidential,…

Fraud
$4.36/person

The nation's statistician: it counts the population, tracks…

Labor
$0.38/person

USITC decides whether dumped or subsidized imports harm U.S…

Waste
$360,667

USAID ordered $8M in contraceptives destroyed, reversed the…

Labor
$0.22/person

Congress's own cost estimator: CBO scores nearly every bill…

Fraud
$0.64/person

Congress's watchdog inside DHS: independent audits, inspect…

Fraud
$1.06/taxpayer

TIGTA is the IRS's own watchdog: it audits and investigates…

Fraud
$419.86/worker

USPS's internal watchdog: investigates mail theft, narcotic…

Labor
$11.3M overdraft

A NC state audit found a school district overdrew $11.3 mil…

Fraud
$0.13/person

EPA's own watchdog: audits, evaluates, and investigates fra…

Fraud
$11.41/resident

CIGIE coordinates the 73 federal Inspectors General offices…

Fraud
$1.96/person

Social Security's internal watchdog: it audits and investig…

Labor
9¢/tax return

Congress's tax scorer: JCT writes the revenue estimate ever…

Waste
$269M

EPA's own watchdog found 58% of active water-earmark grants…

Labor
1-3 employees

The Education Department's inspector general found NCES --…

Fraud
$2.26/person

North Carolina's constitutional fiscal watchdog: OSA audits…

Fraud
$7.68/person

Washington's elected auditor examines the state's books and…

Fraud
$32.84/family

HUD's independent watchdog: HUD OIG audits and investigates…

Fraud
$1.14/person

The Treasury bureau that writes federal payments and auctio…

Benefits
$1.27/resident

California's independent watchdog: it audits state and loca…

Fraud
$497.39/person

USDA's SNAP, WIC, and school-meals agency, renamed the Food…

Fraud
$10.5M

HUD's mortgage-claims contractor flagged $10.5 million in i…

Fraud
$322.5M

Staff could not show they tried VA's discount pharmacy cont…

Environment
92%

Minnesota certified 92% of a 2019 sample as water-safe desp…

Waste
99 years

DEQ can clear only 5-6 hazardous landfill sites a year, lea…

Contracting
463 days

A state audit found Washington's home care certification no…

Waste
$54.1M

USPS's new $10B, 5.5-year air contract set minimums so far…

Fraud
$49.6M

SSA's own audit found errors in 75% of sampled fraud-sancti…

Health
$0.07/person

Congress's Medicare and Medicaid payment advisers: 17 commi…

Health
$22.55/person

CDC runs the nation's disease-surveillance and public-healt…

Fraud
$14.63/person

CMS runs Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP -- processing over a…

Contracting
$2,432/person

DoD organizes, trains, and equips the U.S. armed forces and…

Fraud
$1.57/person

DoD OIG audits, investigates, and evaluates the Pentagon's…

Fraud
$105.49/person

DOJ prosecutes federal crime, runs federal prisons, and enf…

Fraud
$0.44/person

DOJ's independent watchdog: OIG audits Department programs…

Health
$20.47/person

FDA sets and enforces safety rules for drugs, devices, food…

Fraud
$1.32/person

HHS's fraud watchdog: it audits Medicare and Medicaid and e…

Health
$136.04/person

NIH funds the biomedical-research pipeline behind new treat…

Fraud
$31.46/resident

New York's chief fiscal officer: audits governments, runs t…

Fraud
$0.33/resident

South Carolina's executive-branch fraud watchdog: audits ag…

Fraud
$16.44/veteran

The independent watchdog inside VA: investigates fraud, ins…

Health
$12,340/enrollee

VHA runs the VA's hospitals and clinics: 170 medical center…

Fraud
$69.94/person

The border, travel, and trade agency merging Customs, Borde…

Fraud
$267.3M

A federal audit found 20% fraud in its own sample -- but 5…

Fraud
$21.3M

Two contractors used sham veteran-owned firms as fronts for…

Housing
$370M/yr

89% of DOT's office buildings sit below the federal occupan…

Contracting
2% → 50%

USPS added delivery days in 2021 so First-Class Mail could…

Fraud
1 of 4

GSA fixed 3 of GAO's 4 Login.gov recommendations since 2024…

Fraud
$60.8M

CBP and NOAA cannot routinely test where imported seafood c…

Contracting
20%

State auditors testing New York's domestic violence hotline…

Waste
$1.16B

DOE has spent $970M through FY2025; tailings finish moving…

Health
0

NOAA's ban on anchoring into shipwrecks in the 41-wreck Lak…

Fraud
$431M unchecked

Maryland's Medicaid agency promised in 2024 to review denie…

Health
0

FWS obligated 99.6% of its $125M IRA appropriation — racing…

Labor
$80M+ cut

Texas prorated community college funding down after college…

Waste
$568.8M revived

Kentucky's new tax system resurrected $568.8 million in dec…

Fraud
$2.3M

A federal audit found CMS paid $2.3 million for virtual che…

Waste
$780K netted

South Carolina let its unclaimed-property auditor deduct fe…

Health
1 of 3

Ordered in 2023 (no deadline), recommended 'as soon as poss…

Contracting
$4.5M diverted

Pierce County spent $4.5M in restricted 911 call-taking tax…

Contracting
$2.1M gap

A Washington county went six years without noticing $937,00…

Transportation
$616.8M gap

Michigan's combined special-ed funding covered 86% of appro…

Transportation
5 of 6 at risk

A state audit found five of six East Bay transit agencies r…

Contracting
$7M settlement

PDX North will pay New Jersey $7 million after misclassifyi…

Contracting
25%

35% short in the command that trains the force, 54% at comb…

Labor
$37.1M projected

Washington's state auditor sampled 59 of 397,102 monthly ch…

Fraud
$275M ordered

Ohio regulators ordered FirstEnergy to pay customers $275 m…

Contracting
$16.9M of $73.6M

Oakland reported a $73.6 million FY2024-25 surplus; the cit…

Fraud
$257.4M unclear

Arizona auditors say the state may have to return some of $…

Waste
$257K misfiled

South Carolina's Treasurer charged crisis-PR and recruiting…

Fraud
Funding cut off

HUD barred LA's homelessness agency from further federal fu…

Environment
~9M

Federal disaster law covers sudden damage — snowstorms qual…

Fraud
$14.2M unchecked

A federal audit found $14.2 million in questionable Medicar…

Contracting
213.84% penalty

South Carolina's Treasurer's Office arranged a $30.8 millio…

Health
$400K unreported

California's Yountville Veterans Home failed to report $400…

Fraud
$13.9M overpaid

A federal audit found California claimed $13.9 million more…

Waste
$7.06M (62%)

New Mexico's child welfare agency spent $7.06 million -- 62…

Immigration
3 of 4

Two of the act's required elements — beacon activation coun…

Contracting
$13,825

A Massachusetts study found special education transportatio…

Waste
$5.1M

A state audit found NC A&T redirected $5.1 million in stude…

Waste
$448M

GAO found the Coast Guard hasn't told Congress that 'foreve…

Fraud
$425M

A federal audit found FEMA never reviewed how $425 million…

Health
42%

A federal audit found 42% of registered nurses had staffing…

Health
$40M

A Massachusetts watchdog found the public defender agency s…

Labor
$39.78M

A Treasury watchdog found the IRS examined just 12 of 405 t…

Health
$50.9M

A state audit found Arizona's prison system spent $50.9 mil…

Waste
$4.6M

California's unemployment agency kept paying for thousands…

Fraud
-$44.7M

A forensic audit found King County's homelessness authority…

Waste
36% -> 65%

A state audit found California's bar exam used undisclosed…

Health
$922M

A Utah audit found only 49% of a $922 million nursing-home…

Fraud
$69M

A state audit found Indiana Virtual School collected $69 mi…

Fraud
$48.4M

A Memphis schools executive secretly overrode a multi-vendo…

Fraud
$12.70

HHS's fraud watchdog says it returns $12.70 for every dolla…

Waste
$3.4B

The Navy obligated $3.4B before finishing the frigate's bas…

Fraud
$300M

For 5 years, Cash App's printed support number didn't work…

Health
97 of 97

HHS OIG reviewed 97 Medicare Advantage stroke diagnoses use…

Fraud
$1.13B

FERC found American Efficient collected $515.5M by claiming…

Waste
28 programs

GAO found 28 USDA and EPA programs that can fund rural wate…

Health
69,571

The 988 LGBTQ+ youth service grew 40× before it was discont…

Fraud
10.62%

USDA's FY2025 SNAP error rate, 10.62% nationally, is the fi…

Waste
$2.25M

A tenant-screening company knew about inflated criminal and…

Health
73%

After fatal nursing-home blackouts in three separate disast…

Fraud
$760.7M

A lawsuit froze Maryland's unemployment fraud collections f…

Fraud
$60M

HHS suspended $60M in annual funding after New York's Medic…

Oversight
$19.6M

Metro Capital failed owing FDIC $19.6M. Its CEO wasn't flag…

Waste
11 of 21

DOE's own order says a mission need must not propose a solu…

Health
24,219

SSA wrongly marked 24,219 people dead over 5 years. 45% of…

Transportation
58%

Ridership hit 9.36 million, up 4.7%. Only 58% of trains met…

Fraud
45 of 100

OIG sampled hospice patients with no recent hospital visit…

Contracting
$469M

The Army spent $469M on a Texas plant built to supply 30,00…

Labor
96% vs 5%

One SBA region's press releases said no SBA loan was needed…

Waste
10,000 to 20,000

GAO flagged the same gap in 2013: DOD can't size Guam's hou…

Contracting
0 of 25

The cost estimate rose from $12.5 billion to $19.6 billion,…

Contracting
6 of 6

The sexual-assault tracker is a spreadsheet that failed eve…

Defense
~30x

NTSB found 68 more bridges with the same blind spot, includ…

Waste
196%

NASA's cost estimate grew from $2.5-3 billion in 2020 to an…

Health
73%

$1.26B of the $1.74B DOD realigned for border operations ca…

Health
0 min

No watch in Michigan before 4 deaths. A 30-minute watch in…

Labor
$4B+

A year after a $5B infusion, BOP is closing 6 prisons and c…

Health
$30M

WV and NJ get $340M guaranteed. NC, home to the oldest cont…

Waste
75+ of 120

MSHA's own watchdog found the agency may not have investiga…

Waste
12+ yrs

Up from 10 years in GAO's 2024 assessment — and GAO says th…

Fraud
0 of 800

OIG's live test found the Postal Service's stamp scanner ca…

Fraud
22%

NC's error rate rose after a 2022 warning. $47.2M in confir…

Health
$1.7B

VA sent 340,000 ineligible veterans to costly outside care,…

Fraud
630K

Paper returns received fell by half. The unprocessed backlo…

Fraud
$462M

OIG sampled 97 Medicare Advantage stroke diagnoses nationwi…

Health
8 yrs

The 2018 priority recommendation to count critical incident…

Education
$99.7M

ClassWallet flagged 581,487 Arizona school-voucher transact…

Justice
$35M

FTC says Hopper hid fees behind a hidden pre-selected check…

Health
35% -> 70%

USDA already paid $6.7B in disaster relief to farmers at a…

Energy
7.3% -> 19.4%

US residential electricity prices rose 7.3% in a year, per…

Immigration
$70B -> $257B

Customs collections have tripled in two years and now equal…

Environment
10.4% -> -4.7%

Revolving credit -- mostly credit card debt -- grew 10.4% a…

Fraud
$6.5B

DOJ charged 455 people in its 2026 fraud sweep -- one wound…

Waste
1.4M

Weeks earlier, DOE had discontinued the grid coordination t…

Contracting
~16.7x

A grand jury finds SF's permanent supportive housing holds…

Fraud
$100B+

GAO has saved $774.3 billion since 2011 by finding duplicat…

Transportation
~$390M/yr

PHMSA proposes to modernize pipeline repair rules unchanged…

Health
$100K to $5M

Interior raised the cap for its simplified pollution-damage…

Contracting
99.6% / 39.1%

FWS obligated 99.6% of the money within months -- then a ye…

Contracting
$2.64B

Only $305 million of it -- about 12% -- is eligible for rei…

Fraud
0 of 3

All three state Marketplaces GAO checked send at least one…

Fraud
1 of 5

DOE's hydrogen-hub program was missing five of nine practic…

Housing
+25%

A 30% drop in per-pupil revenue was linked to more inclusio…

Waste
11 of 21

DOE's own 2021 estimate: vitrifying Idaho's calcine waste c…

Health
+1,165%

The other seven sectors combined saw apprehensions fall --…

Housing
45%

GAO found GSA cut staff first, then started assessing the s…

Contracting
$2.8B

Halfway houses were paid late 70% of the time and took near…

Fraud
$174M

USDA has had the legal authority since the 2008 Farm Bill a…

Transportation
$375M

Closed with one-time fixes — suspended pension funding, def…

Waste
$79.4B

Later laws rescinded or blocked more than half, and the two…

Health
$25B

The service plans to obligate $20 billion of it by the end…

Energy
41 days

DOE certified the rule non-controversial; 22 submissions, i…

Health
55%

That's more than half of the 292 grants GAO could check --…

Fraud
367

That's more than 9 times the 40 use cases VA reported in 20…

Housing
$22.525B

HUD projects the rollback saves at most $85 million a year…