Interior's inspector general questioned $24 million Oklahoma spent from a federal grant to plug abandoned oil and gas wells: no competing bids, contracts signed after a federal deadline, and $703,936 in unreported income from salvaged pipe. Then Interior's own program office reviewed the money and decided to allow all of it. Here's what the audit found, and what happens with the $102 million Oklahoma got next.

Some of the money had not moved in 43 years. A new HUD inspector general audit found $149.4 million parked in old grants and contracts that HUD could not show were still needed, and in some cases could not even find the paperwork for. In one case, three grantees had no idea money was still waiting for them, and drew it down the moment HUD called. Here's what the audit found and what HUD says it is doing.

The Coast Guard's patrol cutters had fire systems that went off on their own at least 22 times, killing the engines. The fix: zip-tie the system so it can't fire automatically, which means a crew member would have to climb down a hatch to fight an engine fire. A new inspector general report also found a third of the fleet wasn't fully mission capable, and one cutter broke down mid-pursuit and let a suspected smuggling boat escape.