[myohan]

"they could go to jail for misallocation of taxpayer funds" can you site a source where this has happened before...

[labster]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal came to mind in less than 5 seconds; I'm sure there are many others.

[GrinningFool]

That's a case of corrupt officials using funds to pay themselves more money and other misuses not in the interests of the city. This isn't in the same category as using funds inappropriately for something that is in the interests of taxpayers.

[iamdave]

I don't think those two statements invalidate each other.