My small city (in VT ~18K people is a city) paid a school commissioner $100K to go away. Paid a city manager $140K to go away. There was also a shady real estate deal with a previous city manager that had the city paying for part of his house. What goes on in city hall is smaller in scale but just as crooked as in DC.
You want a real cluster-you-know-what, look no further than the Dallas Independent School District.