Thurston Howell III Would Be So Proud
From the Inky Newsdesk:
John S. Carter, the former Independence Seaport Museum president, had taste, a great job, and bosses who didn’t watch him very closely – three things he used to live the good life.
Prosecutors charged Carter yesterday with swindling the museum out of more than $1 million worth of top-shelf goods between 1997 and 2006, a time when he was paid about $300,000 a year and lived rent-free in a museum-owned townhouse in Society Hill.
For his summer house on Cape Cod, prosecutors said, Carter used museum money to have a $210,000 carriage house built and to buy a $275,000 power boat, a $100,000 wooden sailboat, a $6,900 tiger-maple bed, a $1,700 espresso machine, a set of escargot dishes and snail forks – and scores of other objects itemized in a government filing that exceeded 50 pages.
Seriously, it’s kinda freaking us out because this is EXACTLY what we would have bought with a million dollars. I mean, escargot dishes? What, have you been reading our diary? Splurging on hookers and blow is so cliche. In fact, it’s downright boring. Thank you, Mr. Carter for bringing some dignity and class back to embezzling.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
A powerboat? Good taste, my arse.
I could respect such malfeasance if the man used that money to collect French cameo glass (particularly Galle) or build a conservatory for a collection of rare plants. Instead he went all Ted Knight. How vulgar.