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Because of the administrative overcharge, many Oklahomans who applied for ERA awards were denied assistance because the unallowable charges were kept by the foundation, Byrd said.

Ms. Ernst said HHS should ask EcoHealth to repay the tax dollars misspent on unallowable costs.

“I believe to let this go and to leave this unpunished is unallowable,” Hutchins’s sister, Svetlana Zemko, said in a video played at a news conference Thursday announcing the lawsuit.

This week the Justice Department’s internal watchdog said it had found that a DEA regional director misused agency funds for his birthday party and for “unallowable items” during trips by the agency’s top official.

The director also approved payment for “unallowable items” during trips by the DEA’s top official, the office said, dipping into funds that were supposed to be used for sensitive drug investigations.