W. Richard West Jr. Asked to Pay Back Very Small Portion of Smithsonian Expenses

After a couple of years of some pretty bad press for their management spending like it was going out of style, the Smithsonian has finally decided to stick up for itself in regard to the lavish excesses of W. Richard West Jr., the former head of their National Museum of the American Indian, which you might recall us talking about in detail earlier this year. After an audit, they’ve asked him to repay the museum for the more than $217,000 he used for transportation and luxury hotels over the course of just two years, and he’s doing just that.