The federal stimulus is the program that keeps on giving -- examples of taxpayer waste, that is.
Investigators inside the Transportation Department offer the latest example of problematic Recovery Act spending from three states that misspent about $125 million in highway repair money - roughly 12 percent of the $1 billion that Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan received.
State officials didn't have proof for why they paid contractors certain amounts, the DOT Office of Inspector General found.
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/highway-waste
Investigators inside the Transportation Department offer the latest example of problematic Recovery Act spending from three states that misspent about $125 million in highway repair money - roughly 12 percent of the $1 billion that Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan received.
State officials didn't have proof for why they paid contractors certain amounts, the DOT Office of Inspector General found.
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/highway-waste
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