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Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts

Posted by timothy on from the life-imitates-monk dept.

NBrooke271 writes "Max Ary, former Director of the Kansas Cosmosphere, has been hit with an eleven-count federal indictment, charging that he sold NASA space artifacts on loan to the museum, including an astronaut's in-flight T-shirt, a control panel from Air Force One and an Apollo 12 water valve for a personal profit of around $180,000. 'Mr. Ary, on behalf of the Cosmosphere, continued to sign documents reporting and verifying to NASA that the watch was still in its possession and collection,' said U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren. Ary currently serves as the Executive Director of Omniplex Science Museum in Oklahoma City, where he has taken a leave of absence. Read official statements from the Cosmosphere, the Omniplex, and Ary's attorney regarding the indictment."

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  1. Re:I read about this on Friday. In a newspaper. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Welcome to slashdot. We either beat them all by a good 3-4 days or we lag the same length of time.

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  2. Re:ANother moron as a director.... by Catbeller · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't resist saying...

    I imagine the main reason why the Hovitos indians tried so hard to kill Dr. Jones would be the necessity of rolling that ten ton boulder back up the tunnel to reset the trap. Every time you sit down to dinner, some idiot in a fedora sets the trap off again!