Given the record of squandered funds and poor returns, it should not be surprising that Russia's foreign intelligence service would run a group of "sleeper agents" who received large bundles of cash and accomplished nothing indictable.
The Bank of North Dakota is truly a peoples' bank that exists for the benefit of the state and its residents, only, with loans made at low interest rates and no bloated, outrageous CEO salaries and benefits that squander funds.
To discard computers that could be used by others — at your school, at other schools, at a community center — neglects a chance to do good and squanders public funds.
"I will sue them for squandering public funds".
Instead, it squandered our funds on unsafe, speculative telecommunications investments that tanked -- lousy companies in a losing industry".
Under Egyptian law, the maximum sentence for bribery is life in prison, and for the lesser offense of squandering public funds, 3 to 15 years, Ms. Morayef said.
In one case, Mr. Salem is accused of squandering public funds by siphoning $714 million in public money out of a deal to sell natural gas to Israel.
According to the report, heedless economic growth, squandered public funds, and rampant neglect of construction standards had led to the disaster.
In a speech yesterday, Brown said: "Those organisations found to be squandering public funds on over-generous salaries for officials, at the expense of services for people, will be named and shamed".
The officials also said that at least one member of the hospital's board of directors had a conflict of interest with a consulting firm, and that a number of board members allowed the firm to squander public funds.
Perhaps you'll squander the funds you devoted to the gym membership or the quit-smoking kit, but it's arguably worth risking the loss given the benefits if your resolutions happen to stick — and if those investments are among a dozen such purchases, chances are that some of them will pan out.
