One of the better episodes came up about eighteen months ago in DC. One of the city council guys had created a fake foundation (complete with official paperwork), which was supposed to take a city grant, and move $450,000 over to help youth softball/baseball in the poor neighborhoods of DC.
ALL of the money...went to this guy. Nothing ever went to the kids. The DC office looking over these grants? They did nothing. The council guy ended up spending it on golf trips, a new motorcycle, and a SUV. I get the feeling that once the $450,000 had all been spent....he would have gone back for more. He was young enough....that he could have done this another dozen times over thirty years.