Jeremy Portnoy

Topline: Medicare paid an estimated $255.1 million in claims for hospice patients who either did not have a documented terminal illness or never

Topline: A city councilman in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, has still not paid more than $47,000 of utility bills he has owed since 1999. Another two councilmen have a combined $30,231 of unpaid bills

Topline: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration cancelled development on a new rocket launcher after already spending $1.4 billion on the project. The half-finished launcher will be strippe

Topline: Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector general’s semiannual report to Cong

Topline: The City of Oakland spent $2 million in 2024 to issue citations for illegal trash dumping, but offenders rarely bothered to respond.

Topline: For almost a decade, the federal government’s budget for Antarctic research included little money for actual scientific inquiry, and a boatload of cash for infrastructure and administrative overhead.

Topline: A former New York City school superintendent was working for Brooklyn schools as a consultant as of this June, a year after his new employer

Topline: City employees in Cary, North Carolina spent $24.2 million on their purchasing cards in 2024 and 2025, filled with arguably some of the most bizarre purchases in the recent history of local governance.

Topline: The Miami-Dade County school district’s attempt to get students to purchase cheap, healthy school lunches in 2012 needed just a bit more time in the oven.

Topline: The federal government, by its own estimate, has recouped less than one percent of the money lost to fraud during the Covid-19 pandemic, Open