This afternoon the Boston Herald reports that John S. Carter pleaded guilty to a number of charges related to crimes committed during his tenure as president of Independence Maritime Museum in Philadelphia. It’s reported that he defrauded the museum of $1.5 million “to buy a carriage house for his Cape Cod home, art, jewelry and even a root canal.” Nice cap to a 17 year career at the top of an institution!
I’ve written about this a number of times over the past few months and this post will hopefully close the chapter on this unfortunate story.
Why do people in positions of authority do self-destructive things like this?
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Why do some people believe they are beyond the rules and have become invicible? Kozlowski, Ebbers? Wolfowitz and Gonsalves? Carter’s “new challenge” will not be an enjoyable one.
a misguided sense of entitlement? loss of identity and certainly vision? missed their time to exit to a new challenge?