Former Financial Officer Faces Charges in Museum Debt Crisis

By Ben Gose

Eighteen months after the Milwaukee Public Museum, one of the largest natural-history museums in the country, shocked the city by revealing that it was in a financial crisis, one of its top executives appears to be the only one to face criminal charges in the museum's near collapse.

Terry A. Gaouette, who left his job as chief financial officer of the museum after its problems became public, was charged by Milwaukee's district attorney with using money from the endowment to cover