April 5, 2007

A minor case of on-job theft

From Yahoo/AP comes this story:
Intern admits thefts from U.S. archives
A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay.

Prosecutors said Denning McTague, who has master's degrees in history and library science, put about 150 of the documents online and had shipped about half of them.

All but three of the items, worth an estimated $30,000 in all, have since been recovered.

McTague told investigators that he used a yellow legal pad to sneak the documents out while working at the National Archives and Records Administration last summer. As an unpaid intern, he had been responsible for arranging and organizing documents in preparation for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

A Gettysburg company that publishes books on the Civil War spotted some of the items on eBay and alerted authorities last fall, officials said.
What was that idiots motivation here... And to sell them on eBay of all places. Posted by DaveH at April 5, 2007 8:26 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Pretty stupid but he probably won't get much of a punishment.

Posted by: jmnlman at April 6, 2007 10:08 AM
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