Highlights | Waste, Fraud & Mismanagement

Other Waste, Fraud & Mismanagement Highlights – 2010

City of Bell Leaders Padded Salaries With Money Intended for Low-Income Housing (October '10)
More Than $69 Million in State Welfare Benefits Drawn Out of State, Including on Cruise Ships (October '10)
Government Workers' Massive Compensation Packages Detailed (September '10)
Irvine District Spent $800,000 More Than Necessary for School Construction, Court Finds (September '10)
Small Southern California City Pays Attorney $500,000 Annually (August '10)
Los Angeles Transportation Department Wasted $855,000 on Unused Equipment, City Controller Reports (August '10)
Teacher Cheats on Student Achievement Tests (August '10)
City Officials Resign After Salary Scandal Breaks, Investigation Launched by Law Enforcement Officers (July '10)
State Spends $2.6 Million to Rent Vacant Building for Two Years (July '10)
Stockton School District Asked to Repay Nearly $1 Million in Unapproved Spending (July '10)
Welfare Benefits Being Withdrawn at Strip Club ATMs (July '10)
Auditor Says Lax Oversight of Recycling Program Cost State Nearly $2.2 Million (June '10)
Los Angeles County Probation Workers Escaped Discipline Because of Missed Deadlines (June '10)
In Orange County, Government Lobbyists Spent $1.1 Million to Lobby Other Government Officials (June '10)
During Budget Crisis, University of California Adds to Ranks of Highly Paid Senior Officials (June '10)
Audits Reveal Waste in L.A. County Departments (May '10)
UC Planning to Cut $500 Million of Administrative Waste (May '10)
Audit Says San Francisco Transit System Could Save $3 Million a Year by Managing Employees Better (May '10)
Audit Shows City of Los Angeles Misplaced 45 Percent of Purchases (May '10)
More Than 33 Percent of San Francisco City Employees Paid Over $100,000 (April '10)
San Francisco "Premium Pay" Rewards Cost $86 Million (April '10)
Consultants Find Millions of Potential Savings at UC Berkeley (April '10)
State Wasted $13 Million on Prison Drug Program, Auditor Says (April '10)
Districts Spending Millions on Error-Filled Math Textbooks (April '10)
Rocklin Gives Early Retirement Deals to City Managers, Then Rehires Them (March '10)
Orange County Spent $842,450 on Failed Information Technology Plan (March '10)
Teachers’ Union Sues to Get School District to Pay Teacher for Five Days at Family Reunion (March '10)
Taxpayers Pay for Failed Waterless Urinal Experiment at Environmental Protection Agency (February '10)
Los Angeles County Has Been Buying $40 Pens, Wasting $162,000 a Year (February '10)
Employment Development Department Mismanagement Costs $53 Million (February '10)
Dead People Received IHSS Benefits, Controller Reports (February '10)
Error by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations Costs Taxpayers $7 Million (January '10)
City Spends Big on Sculpture, Then Spends Again to Have it Removed (January '10)
Despite Budget Problems, San Diego Assessor and Treasurer Accept Raises (January '10)
CalTrans Buys New Vehicles That Sit Idle (January '10))

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