Man Charged For Billing Suit As ‘Marine Water Pumps’

Hey, they finally charged that guy from the Independence Seaport Museum. The Inquirer’s John Schiffman on former seaport head John S. Carter:

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.

Carter allegedly engaged in a brazen but clumsy effort to cloak many misdeeds, charging a $1,100 suit as “marine water pumps,” a $935 root canal operation as “boat supplies,” and $6,400 worth of gym fees as “meetings.”

Yeah, well maybe if the Seaport Museum offered its employees dental insurance this wouldn’t have happened. Or maybe the employees have to pay and Carter just didn’t opt in.

Ex-seaport museum chief charged [Inquirer]