In June 1976, the National Center for Health Services received a Golden Fleece Award after it was revealed that more than $20 million of their grants and contracts — more than $104 million in 2022 dollars — were routinely not completed on time, cost up to five time the original contract, and “contained low quality and highly questionable results.”
Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, gave awards to wasteful and nonsensical spending, eventually handing out 168 Golden Fleece Awards between 1975 and 1988.
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