misspend

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Favre said in October that he did nothing wrong and had been “ unjustly smeared ” in news coverage of the welfare misspending.

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The Mississippi Department of Human Services last year filed a civil lawsuit to try to recover the millions of dollars of misspent welfare money.

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Democratic leaders restored the old practice of earmarks, hometown projects for lawmakers that Congress dropped in 2011 because voters viewed it as a sleazy misspending of taxpayers’ money.

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In the lawsuit, James’ office argued that one was to remedy the alleged misspending at the organization was by closing it down.

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Sand said in December that the Republican governor not only misspent the federal money but tried to conceal it by passing it through the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

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