Officials and private employees across the country are making costly mistakes with federal dollars in a crime victims’ support program, according to the Department of Justice’s inspector general.

DOJ audits from this year flagged more than $1.96 million combined in “questioned costs” or excess spending stemming from the Victims of Crime Act, a federal law passed in 1984 to help local governments and nonprofit organizations provide victim-focused services. The reports describe widespread mismanagement of the program in conservative and liberal states’ bureaucracies.

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