Just what every library needs: a smokeless ashtray

Audit Details $310,000 in Prohibited Expenses by Queens Library’s Leaders.  (The New York Times, 7/8/2015)

No itemized expenditures reports at Queens Library? (bullet points added)

Among the abuses, library executives used library funds to pay for 

• “extravagant meals,” 
• alcohol, 
• tickets to a Maroon 5 rock concert, 
• admission to Disneyland, 
• airline upgrades, 
• Apple TVs, 
• a smoking balcony off the president’s office and 
• smokeless ashtrays 

— all while maintaining that the library system was running a deficit, said Scott M. Stringer, the New York City comptroller, whose office conducted the audit and a related inquiry into possible misconduct.

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