fraud

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The city controller has no power over local policy, legislation or the city’s budget, but can often shed light on wasteful spending or fraud and pressure politicians by releasing audits and reports on city departments.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

But Gill said she believed the policy was a "a very poor attempt at trying to offer something to hospitality and quite frankly it will lead to loopholes, fraud, misuse and no genuine good".

From BBC • May 29, 2026

“Voters continue to believe that federal spending consists of vastly more waste, fraud and abuse than researchers and auditors have heretofore been able to identify,” reports the Reagan Institute in its latest national economic survey.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

The initial litigation stemmed from allegations that Johnson was “running a fraud and extortion scheme” where he claimed to be a U.S. intelligence agent.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

He’d skipped town, they’d say, because he was a fraud, a quack whom we never should’ve trusted.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs