Government waste stories usually focus on either a bureaucrat misspending federal tax dollars or the recipient of the funds doing so. Once in a while, the story involves both, as is the case with $32 million worth of State Department grants to eight recipients for aid to African countries.

The funds were granted by the State Department Bureau of African Affairs between 2010 and 2012.

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