The leadership of Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is working to iron out problems uncovered in an August 15 audit by the Maryland Department of Legislative Services, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.
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The audit uncovered serious irregularities. It found charges on the museum’s corporate credit card that were “without a readily apparent business purpose.” It found two instances in which payments were made to an employee’s PayPal account. A former employee was instructing visitors to pay him for parking personally, and keeping the cash. And the museum had a practice of pre-signing a number of blank checks for emergency purposes, and stored unsigned blank checks in an unsecured office…