October 12, 2006

California Reprimands J. Paul Getty Trust and Appoints an Independent Monitor

By Harvy Lipman

After spending more than a year investigating the J. Paul Getty Trust, California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, issued a report concluding that the organization's trustees wrongly allowed the institution's president to spend money on travel and other expenses. In addition, he chided the trust for buying artworks for retiring trustees and for other spending not related to the trust's charitable mission.

However, he said that some of the most contentious charges leveled against the

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