Pirate of Philadelphia
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May 21, 2007, 9:55 pm
Filed under: maritime heritage
Filed under: maritime heritage
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reports that John S. Carter, former president of the Independence Maritime Museum will plead guilty of “scamming” the museum of over $1.5 million “to fund a lavish lifestyle.”
Is it me of does anyone else wonder where the other employees and board members were doing and thinking when this was going on?
I previously wrote about this here, here and here.
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to answer your question, part of the tragedy of this $$ loss, but there’s more: groupthink spawn happens–so no one talks–and a terrible culture is spawned. But the process means that the precious asset called vision gets stolen.
Comment by tugster May 23, 2007 @ 6:25 am“does anyone else wonder where the other employees and board members were doing and thinking when this was going on?”
Yeah.
Greedy fill-in-the-blank. $300K a year and a job that I bet a lot of people would give their eyeteeth to get for the sheer love of maritime history? You’d think that would be plenty.
Comment by bonnie May 22, 2007 @ 4:25 pm